Ms Coventry was elected following today’s vote in the 144th IOC Session in Costa Navarino, Greece, and will assume office from current IOC President Thomas Bach later this year.
Quanhai Li, World Sailing President, said: “On behalf of World Sailing, I warmly congratulate Kirsty Coventry on her election as IOC President.
“The Olympic Games is a sporting event with a peerless history and we firmly believe its best days are still to come. World Sailing is committed to strengthening our...
World Sailing is deeply shocked and saddened to report the death of Line Markert, World Sailing Vice President and our fellow sailor.
Line, her partner Andreas Christensen, and their son, died returning from a ski trip following an incident in their private plane shortly after take-off in Switzerland yesterday afternoon.
Quanhai Li, World Sailing President, said: “This is an awful tragedy and a huge shock, our thoughts are with Line and Andreas’s family and friends at an unimaginably difficult...
| In support of this year’s International Women’s Day, held annually on 8 March, the fifth edition of World Sailing’s global women’s sailing festival, Steering the Course, will reaffirm the federation’s commitment to creating new pathways at all levels of the sport for talented female sailors, coaches and officials. Two global festivals will be held in solidarity with the International Women’s Day theme of #AccelerateAction and elevating women and girls’ participation and achievement in... |
World Sailing is pleased to announce that the Polish port city of Gdynia has been chosen to host the 2025 World Sailing Youth Match Racing World Championships, taking place from 21-27 July 2025 as part of the annual Gdynia Sailing Days festival.
Gdynia Marina, host venue for the 2027 World Sailing Championships, will welcome 16 teams – an increase of four from the 2024 edition of the Youth Match Racing World Championships.
The championship will use the RS21 one-design racing keelboat, which...
9 April 2022 – The awards ceremony the 51st edition of the Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca brought to an end. The week long event was the first major international event for Olympic classes since the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo and is the first regatta for the 2022 Hempel World Cup Series.
Held at the City of Palma’s Ses Voltes, the prizegiving was attended by some of the island’s main authorities: the Balearic Minister of Sports, Fina Santiago; the Minister of Tourism of...
At the Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mallorca, the opening Hempel Sailing World Cup Circuit regatta of 2022 which is the first major Olympic classes sailing event since the 2020 games last year, the penultimate day of racing saw one pair of Italian Olympic gold medallists carry on from where they left off in Tokyo, one Dutch female duo comprehensively overshadow the 2020 Olympic champions and one delighted Canadian single-hander make a dream start to her post-Tokyo pledge...
The Bay of Palma turned on the perfect combination of sunshine and solid SW’ly winds for the fourth day of competition at the Trofeo Sofia Mallorca Olympic classes regatta, the first Hempel World Cup Circuit of 2022.
It was the first day of Gold Fleet racing in the Formula Kiteboard which put on a spectacular display for the tourists promenading along the waterfront of Playa de Palma. Out on the water it was a battle of the bigger and smaller French riders, with 110kg of...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/07/palma-at-its-memorable-best/
Inspiring stories of athletic ability, perseverance, and skill were the order of the day at the St Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco on 25 March 2022, when World Sailing gathered three USA Para Sailors to an exclusive meet and greet with national and international media during the Grand Finale of Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix | San Francisco. As part of its global campaign to reinstate sailing in the Paralympic Games for LA28, the athletes were joined by representatives from US...
Hempel World Cup Series headlines at Dutch Water Week
The Dutch cities of Almere and Lelystad, on the banks of Markermeer lake, will host the 2022 edition of Hempel World Cup Series Allianz Regatta, 27 May – 5 June, as part of Dutch Water Week.
Marina Muiderzand in Almere and Batavia Beach in Lelystad will welcome the world’s best sailors to compete in the ten Olympic classes, including kiteboarding which will make its debut at Paris 2024.
Double Olympic medallist, 2017 Rolex World Sailor of the...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/09/hempel-world-cup-series-headlines-at-dutch-water-week/
Steering the Course 2022 set for record year
World Sailing is aiming to break records this year with Steering the Course – the global women’s sailing festival – after taking the world by storm in its début year in 2021.
With events staged in 27 countries, Steering the Course – aimed at providing opportunities for women and girls to get into sailing and encourage pathways into coaching and race management – reached major milestones.
St Kitts and Nevis – one of seven Caribbean country hosts – became...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/02/steering-the-course-2022-set-for-record-year/