The Sultanate of Oman has been chosen to host the first edition of the new World Sailing Inclusion Championships. Organised by Oman Sail and held at Al-Mussanah Sports City, the event will celebrate the diverse community of sailors with disabilities by demonstrating that sailing is truly a sport for all and marking a new chapter for Para Inclusive Sailing.
The World Sailing Inclusion Championships will bring together an expected 215 sailors from around the world for a week of competition and...
The coastal destination of Dún Laoghaire has been chosen to host the 2025 World Sailing Annual Conference and World Sailing Awards from 3-8 November 2025, bringing together over 400 international delegates and some of sailing’s biggest names for a celebration of the sport and an opportunity to shape the future of sailing.
This will be the second time the town has hosted a World Sailing Annual Conference, after first hosting the event in 2012.
Representatives from across the sailing world,...
Great Britain’s most successful female Olympic sailor and strategist for Emirates GBR SailGP Team, Hannah Mills OBE, will headline as guest speaker at World Sailing’s upcoming Sustainability Session on renewable energy in the sport.
The panel session, ‘A Focus on Renewable Energy’, will be held live from 8am UTC on Wednesday 14 May 2025.
Hosted by Alexandra Rickham PLY, World Sailing’s Director of Sustainability, the discussion will include insight from Justin Thesiger, Global Managing Director...
World Sailing is committed to strengthening our contribution to the Olympic Movement through our Olympic Vision, and we welcome today’s announcement from the International Olympic Committee on athlete quotas and the event programme for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
Quanhai Li, World Sailing President, said: “We thank the International Olympic Committee for today’s decision, and we recognise the task they have faced in accommodating the aspirations of 36 sports for the Los Angeles 2028...
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...