Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sailing at the Games of the 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. 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.
• For the Women's Windsurfer event, the equipment will be the IQFoil.
• For the Men's Kiteboarding event, the equipment will be the Formula Kite.
• For the Women's Kiteboarding event, the equipment will be the Formula Kite.

Events were top of the agenda again with Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Keelboats, Match Racing and Offshore Racing all looking for inclusion in the games. The International Sailing Federation took the approach of raising the number of mixed events up to two, for the purpose of maintaining gender balance.

Regarding the option of introducing the controversial Mixed Offshore Event, the IOC expressed major concerns as this was a bold format involving competition taking place over days and away from protected areas. Solid concerns were about security, safety, fairness towards religious, moral and ethical creeds.

Overview

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.

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.

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.

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

Classes (equipment)

Participating NOCs

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

Competition schedule

Medal summary

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

In Spanish: Vela en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024 para niños

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