Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Sailing at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Marseille Marina
Dates	28 July – 8 August 2024
No. of events	10 (4 men, 4 women,2 mixed)
Competitors	330 (165 men and 165 women)
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Sailing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics were held from July 28th to August 8th at Marseille Marina. ^{[1] [2]} The number of sailors competing across ten different events at these Games has been reduced from 350 to 330, with an equal distribution between men and women. Furthermore, several significant changes are instituted in the sailing program for Paris 2024 to reinforce gender equality and vast diversity among the nations in the qualifying process.

Medal events and equipment

• For the Men's Single-handed Dinghy event, the equipment will be the ILCA 7
• For the Women's Single-handed Dinghy event, the equipment will be the ILCA 6
• For the Mixed Double-handed Dinghy event, the equipment will be the 470
• For the Mixed Foiling Catamaran event, the equipment will be the Nacra 17
• For the Men's Skiff event, the equipment will be the 49er
• For the Women's Skiff event, the equipment will be the 49erFX
• For the Men's Windsurfer event, the equipment will be the IQFoil. ^[3]
• For the Women's Windsurfer event, the equipment will be the IQFoil. ^[3]
• For the Men's Kiteboarding event, the equipment will be the Formula Kite. ^{[4] [5]}
• For the Women's Kiteboarding event, the equipment will be the Formula Kite. ^{[4] [5]}

Events Selection Controversy

Events were top of the agenda again with Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Keelboats, Match Racing and Offshore Racing all looking for inclusion in the games. Sailing took the approach of introducing a number of new mixed events to reach gender balance while still showcasing as many disciplines of the sport as possible. The two person boats of the 470 and Nacra 17 and yet to be chosen Offshore were going to be mixed. In addition and more controversially the single person Kiteboards was going to be two person mixed gender event.

However the IOC had concerns over Mixed Offshore, this was a bold format involving competition taking place over days something not done in Olympics before in any sport. France is very much the leading nation for short handed offshore sailing with the Solitaire du Figaro and Vendee Globe so were keen to have the event.

When the IOC put World Sailing events up for review rather than accepting their recommendation, they choose to carry on backing their initial choice stating "The Mixed Offshore Event was democratically selected by our members and remains our first-choice event for Paris 2024; we have made this clear to the IOC and will continue to do so." ^[6]

It then after direction that it was likely not to get it's choice took the unusual step of proposing alternative events should the IOC not endorse its recommendation. ^[7] The IOC dropping the mixed offshore event allowed for kiteboarding to have a male and female competition rather than a combined event.

Event Management

The weather was very light and variable during the second week of the event making race management difficult. As always this lead to winners and loser due to the decisions of the race management committee. Of particarlar note were abandonment of races both during there running and in the case of kiteboarding at the start.

Windsurfing and kiteboard both had finals format not done at the Olympics before in an attempt to create a more meaningful final for the media. With the windsurfing single race format final series inparticular coming under critism as Emma Wilson despite dominating the opening series in a way that would have certain gold medal lead to her getting bronze and the associated stress this causes. ^[8]

Overview

Qualification

Further information: Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

The number of sailors competing across ten different events has been reduced from 350 to 330, with an equal distribution between men and women. Aiming for vast gender equality and diversity among the nations, the International Federation, World Sailing, has ratified several amendments to the qualifying process. ^[2]

The qualification period started at the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, where 107 places, about forty percent of the total quota, had been awarded to the highest-ranked NOCs across ten different sailing events. Seven places will be distributed to sailors representing the highest-finishing, not previously qualified NOCs at each of the 2024 Men's ILCA 7 and Women's ILCA 6 World Championships. Each ILCA continental qualifiers will award two quota places with the exception of Asia, which will award one quota place at the 2023 Asian Games in China and two quota places at the Asian Olympic qualifier in Thailand. ^[2]

The remainder of the total quota was attributed to the eligible MNAs through the 2024 Last Chance Regatta in Hyères, France (39 boats in total) and as part of the World Sailing Emerging Nations Program (two boats per gender each in windsurfing and dinghy). Four quota places (two per gender) were entitled to the NOCs competing in the men's ILCA 7 and women's ILCA 6 under the Tripartite Commission. ^[9]

As the host country, France reserves one quota place in each of the ten sailing classes. ^[2]

Classes (equipment)

Class	Type	Event	Gender	Sailors	Trapeze	Mainsail	Jib/Genoa	Spinnaker	Classes Intro.	Event Intro.
IQFoil	Windfoiling	Fleet	Female	1	–	+	–	–	2024
IQFoil	Windfoiling	Fleet	Male	1	–	+	–	–	2024
ILCA 6	Dinghy	Fleet	Female	1	–	+	–	–	2008
ILCA 7	Dinghy	Fleet	Male	1	–	+	–	–	1996	Various
470	Dinghy	Fleet	Mixed	2	1	+	+	+	1976	2024
49er	Skiff	Fleet	Male	2	2	+	+	+	2000	Various
49erFX	Skiff	Fleet	Female	2	2	+	+	+	2016
Nacra 17	Multihull	Fleet	Mixed	2	2	+	+	+	2016
Formula Kite	Kiteboard	Fleet	Female	1	–	+	–	–	2024
Formula Kite	Kiteboard	Fleet	Male	1	–	+	–	–	2024

Participating NOCs

In total, 65 NOCs except Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), participated at the sport of sailing.

•   Algeria  (1)
•   Angola  (3)
•   Antigua and Barbuda  (1)
•   Argentina  (7)
•   Aruba  (2)
•   Australia  (12)
•   Austria  (9)
•   Belgium  (8)
•   Bermuda  (1)
•   Brazil  (12)
•   British Virgin Islands  (1)
•   Canada  (6)
•   Cayman Islands  (1)
•   Chile  (2)
•   China  (13)
•   Colombia  (1)
•   Croatia  (6)
•   Cyprus  (4)
•   Czech Republic  (3)
•   Denmark  (9)
•   Egypt  (2)
•   El Salvador  (1)
•   Estonia  (2)
•   Fiji  (2)
•   Finland  (4)
•   France  (14)host
•   Germany  (14)
•   Great Britain  (14)
•   Greece  (4)
•   Guatemala  (1)
•   Hong Kong  (5)
•   Hungary  (2)
•   India  (2)
•   Ireland  (4)
•   Israel  (8)
•   Italy  (12)
•   Japan  (7)
•   Kuwait  (1)
•   Lithuania  (2)
•   Malaysia  (2)
•   Mauritius  (2)
•   Mexico  (2)
•   Montenegro  (1)
•   Mozambique  (1)
•   Netherlands  (11)
•   New Zealand  (12)
•   Norway  (5)
•   Peru  (3)
•   Poland  (10)
•   Portugal  (4)
•   Puerto Rico  (1)
•   Romania  (1)
•   Saint Lucia  (1)
•   Samoa  (2)
•   Singapore  (2)
•   Slovakia  (1)
•   Slovenia  (6)
•   South Korea  (1)
•   Spain  (13)
•   Sweden  (8)
•   Switzerland  (7)
•   Thailand  (4)
•   Turkey  (8)
•   United States  (13)
•   Uruguay  (3)

Competition schedule

Planned Schedule

Legend

S

Series races

MR

Medal race (top 10 double scoring)

Schedule ^[10]

Event	Day 2	Day 3,4,5,6,7,8,9							Day 10,11,12,13,14
	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1	Fri 2	Sat 3	Sun 4	Mon 5	Tue 6	Wed 7	Thu 8	Fri 9
Men's classes
IQFoil	S1,2	S3,4,5,6	S7,8,9,10	S11,12,13,14	S15,16,17,18	QF,SF,F	Res.
Formula Kite								S1,2,3,4	S5,6,7,8	S9.10,11,12	S13,14,15,16	SF,F	Res.
ILCA 7					S1,2	S3,4	S5,6	S7,8	S9,10	MR	Res.	Res.
49er	S1,2,3	S4,5,6	S7,8,9	S10,11,12	MR	Res.
Women's classes
IQFoil	S1,2	S3,4,5,6	S7,8,9,10	S11,12,13,14	S15,16,17,18	QF,SF,F	Res.
Formula Kite								S1,2,3,4	S5,6,7,8	S9.10,11,12	S13,14,15,16	SF,F	Res.
ILCA 6					S1,2	S3,4	S5,6	S7,8	S9,10	MR	Res.	Res.
49er FX	S1,2,3	S4,5,6	S7,8,9	S10,11,12	MR	Res.
Mixed classes
470						S1,2	S3,4	S5,6	S7,8	S9.10	MR	Res.	Res.
Nacra 17							S1,2,3	S4,5,6	S7,8,9	S10,11,12	MR	Res.	Res.

Actual Schedule

Schedule ^[10]

Event	Day 2	Day 3,4,5,6,7,8,9							Day 10,11,12,13,14
	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1	Fri 2	Sat 3	Sun 4	Mon 5	Tue 6	Wed 7	Thu 8	Fri 9
Men's classes
IQFoil		S1	S2,3,4,5,6	S7,8,9,10	S11,12,13		QF,SF,F
Formula Kite								S1,2,3,4	S5	S6,7		SA,SB,SC,F1	F2,F3
ILCA 7					S1,2	S3,4	S5,6	S7,8			MR
49er	S1,2,3	S4,5,6	S7,8,9	S10,11,12		MR
Women's classes
IQFoil		S1,2	S3,4,5,6,7	S8,9,10,11	S12,13,14	QF,SF,F
Formula Kite								S1,2,3,4	S5,6			SA,SB,F1,F2
ILCA 6					S1	S2,3	S4,5,6	S7,8	S9		MR
49erFX	S1,2,3	S4,5,6	S7,8,9	S10,11,12		MR
Mixed classes
470					S1,2	S3	S4	S5,6		S7,8		MR
Nacra 17							S1,2,3	S4,5,6	S7,8,9	S10,11,12		MR

Medal summary

A total of 30 medals were won by 19 NOC's. ^[11]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	2	0	2	4
2	Austria	2	0	0	2
	Italy	2	0	0	2
4	Australia	1	1	0	2
	Israel	1	1	0	2
6	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
7	Spain	1	0	0	1
8	France*	0	1	1	2
	New Zealand	0	1	1	2
	Sweden	0	1	1	2
11	Argentina	0	1	0	1
	Cyprus	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
16	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Peru	0	0	1	1
	Singapore	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		10	10	10	30

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
iQFoil details	Tom Reuveny   Israel	Grae Morris   Australia	Luuc van Opzeeland   Netherlands
Formula Kite details	Valentin Bontus   Austria	Toni Vodišek   Slovenia	Maximilian Maeder   Singapore
Laser details	Matthew Wearn   Australia	Pavlos Kontides   Cyprus	Stefano Peschiera   Peru
49er details	Spain Diego Botín Florián Trittel	New Zealand Isaac McHardie William McKenzie	United States Ian Barrows Hans Henken

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
iQFoil details	Marta Maggetti   Italy	Sharon Kantor   Israel	Emma Wilson   Great Britain
Formula Kite details	Ellie Aldridge   Great Britain	Lauriane Nolot   France	Annelous Lammerts   Netherlands
Laser radial details	Marit Bouwmeester   Netherlands	Anne-Marie Rindom   Denmark	Line Flem Høst   Norway
49erFX details	Netherlands Odile van Aanholt Annette Duetz	Sweden Vilma Bobeck Rebecca Netzler	France Sarah Steyaert Charline Picon

Mixed events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
470 details	Austria Lara Vadlau Lukas Mähr	Japan Keiju Okada Miho Yoshioka	Sweden Anton Dahlberg Lovisa Karlsson
Nacra 17 details	Italy Ruggero Tita Caterina Banti	Argentina Mateo Majdalani Eugenia Bosco	New Zealand Micah Wilkinson Erica Dawson

See also

• Sailing at the 2022 Asian Games
• Sailing at the 2023 Pan American Games

References

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4. "Men's and Women's Kiteboarding confirmed for Paris 2024". World Sailing. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
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7. "Paris 2024: IOC puts World Sailing on six weeks notice over 2024 Olympic Events".
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