Svetlana Shnitko (25 March 1987, Omsk, Russia [2] ) is a Russian sports sailor. [3] [4] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's Laser Radial class, [5] finishing in 34th place.
Marit Bouwmeester is a sailor from the Netherlands.
Krystal Weir is an Australian sailor. She finished tenth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing in the Women's Laser Radial class event, where she finished in twelfth.
Igor Lisovenko is a Russian sailor. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Laser class, finishing in 11th and 27th place respectively.
Keerati Bualong is a Thai sailor. In 2012, he became the first Thai to qualify for the Olympics in the men's one person dinghy, the same class of boat His Majesty The King of Thailand once sailed. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Laser class.
Pavlos Kontides is a Cypriot sailor. He became the first Cypriot athlete ever to win an Olympic medal for his country, by winning the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Laser class behind Tom Slingsby, then twelve years later in Paris getting another medal of the same color behind Australia's Matthew Wearn. He won the International Sports Prize World Athlete of the Year award in 2012. On Tuesday 19 of September 2017, Kontides took the 1st place in 2017 ILCA World Championship in Split, Croatia, becoming a World Champion. He won the championship again in 2018, as well as a silver in 2013.
Gustavo Lima is a Portuguese sailor. Competing in the 2000 Summer Olympics, he finished 6th in the laser class. He improved his position by one place, finishing 5th at the 2004 Olympics. He finished 4th at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Laser class.
Tina Mihelić is a Croatian sports sailor. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's Laser Radial class, finishing in 17th place. In the same event at the 2016 Olympics, she finished in 13th place.
Josefin Anna Louise Olsson is a Swedish sports sailor.
Cecilia Carranza Saroli is an Argentine Olympic sailor. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's Laser Radial class, finishing in the 21st place. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she finished 8th in the same event. Cecilia won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the category Nacra 17 alongside fellow sailor Santiago Lange.
Agnieszka Skrzypulec is a Polish sports sailor.
Enia Ninčević is a Croatian sports sailor.
Lara Vadlau is an Austrian competitive sailor.
Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held from 8–18 August at Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay. The sailing classes had two changes from the 2012 Summer Olympics events. There were 10 events.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Sheremetyev is a Russian sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470). He represented Russia, along with his brother Maksim Sheremetyev, in two editions of the Olympic Games, and has also been training for CSKA Moscow throughout most of his sporting career under personal coach Sergey Modestovich Egorov.
Maksim Sergeyevich Sheremetyev is a Russian sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470). He represented Russia, along with his older brother Mikhail Sheremetyev, in two editions of the Olympic Games, and has also been training for CSKA Moscow throughout most of his sporting career under personal coach Sergey Modestovich Egorov.
Graham Porter Biehl is an American sailor.
Frithjof Kleen is a German sailor, who specialized in two-person keelboat (Star) class. He represented Germany, along with his partner Robert Stanjek in the Star class at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and also captured a silver medal at the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Perth, Australia. Kleen has also been training throughout most of his sporting career for the North German Sailing Regatta in Hamburg under his personal coach Alan Smith.
Michael Leigh is a Canadian sailor, who specialized in one-person (Laser) and two-person dinghy (470) classes. Representing Canada in two editions of the Olympic Games, he finished ninth in the Laser class at Beijing 2008, and then twenty-fifth in the 470 class at London 2012 with his partner Luke Ramsay. Leigh has also been training throughout his sailing career for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club under his Australian-born personal coach Joshua Chant.
Aruba competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Ralph Hamilton Roberts was a New Zealand sailor and sports administrator.