The Windsurfing World Championships is an international sailing competition organized by World Sailing held since 1980, now annually.
Edition | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Ref | |
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1980 Tihany | Board| [1] | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [2] | |
1981 Palamós | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [2] | ||
1982 Messina | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [2] | ||
1983 Hamilton | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [2] | ||
1986 Cagliari | ![]() | ![]() | [2] | |||
1987 Kingston | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [2] | ||
1989 Palma de Mallorca | Lechner A-390 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [3] | |
1990 Corpus Christi | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [3] | ||
1991 San Francisco | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [3] | ||
1992 Singapore | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | [3] | ||
Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
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1986 | ![]() ![]() | ||
1987 | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1988 | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1989 Corpus Christi | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1990 | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1991 San Francisco | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1992 Mondello | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
1993 Kashiwazaki | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1994 Gimli | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1995 Port Elizabeth | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1996 Haifa | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1997 Fremantle | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1998 Brest | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1999 Nouméa | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2000 Mar del Plata | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2001 Varkiza | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2002 Pattaya | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2003 Cádiz | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2004 Cezme | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2005 Palermo | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2006 Shenzhen | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Edition | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Board | |||
1979 Ermioni | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1980 Tihany | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1981 Palamos | ![]() | ||
1982 Messina | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1986 Cagliari | ![]() | ||
1987 Kingston | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Lechner A-390 | |||
1989 Puerto Pollenca | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1990 Corpus Christi | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1991 San Francisco | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1992 Cadix | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Nimrod Mashiah is an Israeli windsurfer.
RS:X is a windsurfing class selected by the ISAF to replace the Mistral One Design Class for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The discipline has similarities to Formula Windsurfing - mainly in that the equipment used was designed to allow windsurfing in low and moderate wind conditions with good performance.
Maayan Davidovich is an Israeli Olympic windsurfer.
The RS:X windsurfing class have two World Championship events the RS:X World Championships and the RS:X Youth World Championships these are annual international sailing regatta, organized by the host club on behalf of the International RS:X Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body. In addition the RS:X was used Youth Sailing World Championships which is run entirely by World Sailing this unlike the class youth world championship is limited to one competitor per country.
World championships in sailing are world championships organised or sanctioned by World Sailing. As a sport, sailing has the largest number of world championships due to the diversity of equipment and disciplines.
The women's RS:X was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Eleven races were scheduled and completed. 27 sailors, on 27 boards, from 27 nations competed. Ten boards qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.
Charline Picon is a French windsurfer who specialized in the Neil Pryde RS:X class. She captured two bronze medals in her respective class at the Windsurfing World Championships, and an Olympic title at the 2016 Summer Olympics after attaining a top ten finish at the 2012 Summer Olympics. As of September 2014, Picon is ranked as one of the top ten sailors in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation, following her successes at the European and World Championships and at the Sailing World Cup series.
Paweł Aleksander Maria Tarnowski is a Polish sailor, son of Jacek Tarnowski, and Monika Wanicka. Tarnowski already competed at the top-level when he was a teenager, becoming a multiple medal winner in Junior World Championships. In 2011 and 2012, he won a gold medal at the RS:X Junior World Championships, and he won medals in European Champion. In first he started in classes Techno 293 Class and at present RS:X, (including in a category age under 17 and under 21 years of age.
He is sometimes seen as a model in commercials, including polish company Atlas or on the cover of album Superheroes : Chapter One - Courage of the band Synthphonia.
The RS:X European Championships are international sailing regattas in the RS:X class.
The Women's ILCA 6 World Championship, until 2020 the Women's Laser Radial World Championship, has been held every year since 1980, organised by the International Sailing Federation. Laser Radial is an Olympic sailing class. The event was held together with the Men's Laser Radial World Championships between 1989 and 2010.
The Men's ILCA 6 World Championship, until 2020 the Men's Laser Radial World Championship, has been held every year since 1989 for the ILCA 6 class, organised by the International Sailing Federation. Laser Radial is an Olympic sailing class. The event was held together with the Women's Laser Radial World Championship between 1989 and 2010.
Mateo Sanz Lanz is a Spanish-born Swiss windsurfer. He competed for Switzerland at the 2016 Summer Olympics, placing 14th in the men's RS:X event, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics, placing 8th in the men's RS:X event. Sanz Lanz placed 2nd in the men's event at the 2017 RS:X World Championships. He was born in Formentera del Segura and resides in San Francisco Javier, Formentera, Balearic Islands.
The 2017 RS:X World Championships was held in Enoshima, Japan between September 16 and September 23.
The following were the scheduled events of sailing for the year 2017 throughout the world.
The following were the scheduled events of sailing for the year 2015 throughout the world.
Emma Wilson is a British windsurfer who won a bronze medal in the RS:X event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She won the RS:X events at the Youth Sailing World Championships in 2016 and 2017, and won medals at the 2018 and 2019 RS:X European Championships, and the 2022 and 2023 IQFoil European Championships.
Kiran Badloe is a Dutch windsurfer. He won the gold medal in the men's event at the 2019 RS:X World Championships and 2020 RS:X World Championships.
Hélène Noesmoen is a French windsurfer who competes in the IQFoil class. She won the women's events at the 2021 IQFoil World Championships and the 2020, 2021 and 2022 IQFoil European Championships. Noesmoen also won the RS:X event at the 2018 Sailing World Cup event in Miami, and multiple junior world championships.