Sailing World Championships

The Sailing World Championships are a world championships organized by International Sailing Federation (ISAF). All Class that are member of the International Sailing Federation may hold class world championships in addition to those initialed by the organisation.

World Championships

ISAF championships

Championship	Event	Held	Current holder	Editions	Ref
ISAF Sailing World Championships	Men/Women/Mixed	2003–	Champions in ten disciplines	4
ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships	Boys/Girls/Open/Mixed	1971–	Champions in eight disciplines	42
ISAF Team Racing World Championship	Open	1995–		9
ISAF Offshore Team Racing World Championship	Open	2004–		5
ISAF Open Match Racing World Championship	Open	1988–	Ian Williams (2015)	24
ISAF Women's Match World Championship	Women	1999–	Echegoyen, Toro, Gonzalez, Lobato & Cacabelos (2013)	14
IYRU Women's World Championships	Women		no longer held

Class championships

Current Olympic disciplines are displayed in a khaki color. Former Olympic disciplines are in pale green.

Category	Class	Championship	Event	Held	Current holder	Editions	Ref
Centreboard	29er	29er World Championships	Open	2000–	O'Connell & Siganto (2015)	16 (2015)	[1][2]
	29erXX		Open	2012–	no longer held		[3]
	420	420 World Championships	Open		Ruiz Luque & Dávila (2014)		[4]
			Women		Omari & Russo Cirillo (2014)		[4]
	470	470 World Championships	Men	2003–	Belcher & Ryan (2014)	10
			Women	1985–	Vadlau & Ogar (2014)	27
			Open	1970–1984	no longer held	13
			Men/Mixed	1985–2002	no longer held	17
		470 World Junior Championships	Junior Open	1999–	Xammar & Herp (2014)	12	[5]
			Junior Women	1999–	Lemaitre & Retornaz (2014)	12	[5]
	49er	49er & 49er FX World Championships	Men	1997–	Burling & Tuke (2014)	16
		49er & 49er FX World Junior Championships	Junior		Bildstein & Hussl (2015)		[6]
	49er FX	49er & 49er FX World Championships	Women	2013–	Grael & Kunze (2014)	2
		49er & 49er FX World Junior Championships	Junior		Kisters & Hummel (2015)		[7]
	505	505 World Championships	Open	1956–	Holt & Smit (2015)	60 (2015)	[8]
	B14	B14 World Championships	Open	1998–	Harrisson & Ratcliffe (2013)		[9]
	Byte	Byte World Championships	Men		Jonatan Vadnai (2014)		[10]
			Women		Odile van Aanholt (2014)		[10]
	Buzz	Buzz World Championships	Open		no longer held		[3]
	Cadet	Cadet World Championships	Open		Lvov & Ymenko (2013)		[11]
	Contender	Contender World Championships	Open	1970–	Mark Bulka (2014)	42 (2014)	[12]
	Enterprise	Enterprise World Championships	Open		Craig & Clark (2007)		[13]
	Europe	Europe World Championships	Open	1966–1977	no longer held
			Men	1978–	Lars Brodtkorb (2015)
			Women	1978–	Anna Livbjerg (2015)
	Finn	Finn Gold Cup	Men	1956–	Giles Scott (2014)	59 (2014)
		Finn Silver Cup	Youth	1999–	Anders Pedersen (2014)	16 (2014)	[14]
			Masters
	Fireball	Fireball World Championships
	Flying Dutchman	Flying Dutchman World Championships	Open	1956–	Majthényi & Domokos (2015)	53 (2015)
	Flying Junior				Sol & Gründken (2013)		[15]
	GP14				Dobson & Tunnicliffe (2014)		[16]
	Int. 14		Open		Massey & Wilsdon (2014)		[17]
	ISO	ISO World Championships	Open		no longer held		[3]
	Laser	Laser World Championships	Men	1974–	Nick Thompson (2015)	34	[18]
		Laser U-21 World Championships	Men U21		Lorenzo Brando Chiavarini (2014)		[19]
		Laser Masters World Championships	Masters
	Laser 4.7	Laser 4.7 World Championships	Boys	2002–	Alexandre Boite (2014)	11	[20]
			Girls	2002–	Asya Luvisetto (2014)	11	[20]
	Laser 2	Laser 2 World Championships	Open		Krenz & Gerdum (2013)		[21]
	Laser Radial	Men's Laser Radial World Championships	Men		Marcin Rudawski (2015)		[22]
		Women's Laser Radial World Championships	Women	1989–	Marit Bouwmeester (2014)	23	[23]
		Laser World U-21 Championships	Women U21		Agata Barwinska (2014)		[23]
		Laser World Youth Championships	Boys		Joel Rodriguez (2014)		[23]
			Girls		Monika Mikkola (2014)		[23]
		Laser Masters World Championships	Masters
	Laser Vago	Laser Vago World Championships			no longer held		[3]
	Lightning	Lightning World Championships			de Santa Ritta e Rondina, Hackerott & Sylvestre (2014)		[24]
	Mirror	Mirror World Championships			Robinson & Robinson (2013)		[25]
	Moth	Moth World Championships	Open	1973–	Peter Burling (2015)		[26]
	Musto Performance Skiff	Musto Performance Skiff World Championships			Jon Newman (sailor) (2015)		[27]
	OK Dinghy	OK Dinghy World Championships		1963–	Matt Stechmann (2013)		[28]
	O'pen BIC	O'pen BIC World Championships
	Optimist	Optimist World Championships			Nicolas Rolaz (2014)		[29]
	RS100	RS100 World Championships
	RS500	RS500 World Championships
	RS Tera	RS Tera World Championships
	RS Feva	RS Feva World Championships
	Snipe	Snipe World Championships	Open	1934–	Tavares & Carvalho (2015)	47 (2015)	[30]
			Youth	1973–	Lopez Montoya & Belmonte Cuenca (2015)	23 (2015)	[31]
			Masters	1986–	Sugiyama & Kaneda (2014)	15 (2014)	[32]
			Women	1994–	Salerno & Salerno (2014)	11 (2014)	[33]
	Splash	Splash World Championships
	Sunfish	Sunfish World Championships
Tasar	Tasar World Championships
Topper	Topper World Championships
Vaurien	Vaurien World Championships
Zoom 8	Zoom 8 World Championships
Keelboat	11:Metre One Design	11:Metre One Design World Championships	Open	1997–2010	no longer held		[3]
	12 Metre	12 Metre World Championships	Open	1979–	Kiwi Magic (2009)
	2.4 Metre	2.4 Metre World Championships	Open	1993–	Stellan Berlin (2014)		[34]
			Disabled		Heiko Kroeger (2014)		[34]
	5.5 Metre	5.5 Metre World Championships	Open	1961–	Nergaard, Solli Sæther & Barne (2015)	53 (2015)
	6 Metre	6 Metre World Championships	Open	1973–	Marilley, Berthoud, Schadegg, Dürr & Nicole (2015)
	8 Metre	8 Metre World Championships	Open	1970–	Fruytier & van Hilst (2014)		[35]
	Access 2.3	Access 2.3 World Championships			Angus MacGregor (2012)		[36]
	Access 303	Access 303 World Championships			Ennis & Leydon (2012)		[37]
	Access Liberty	Access Liberty World Championships			Gregory Hyde (2012)		[38]
	Dragon	Dragon World Championships	Open	1965–	Braslavets, Mirchuk & Timokhov (2015)	26 (2015)
	Etchells	Etchells World Championships			Hardesty, Canfield, Roble & Eagan (2014)		[39]
	Flying 15	Flying 15 World Championships			Vials & Turner (2013)		[40]
	H-boat	H-boat World Championships	Open	1980–	Høj Jensen, Dahl Hansen & Guhle (2015)
	IOD	IOD World Championships			no longer held		[3]
	J/22	J/22 World Championships			Rae, Verhovert & Spilhaus (2013)		[41]
	J/24	J/24 World Championships			Welles, Bowen, Lawrence, Rabin & Turney (2014)		[42]
	J/70	J/70 World Championships			Healy, Abdullah, Becker & Borges (2014)		[43]
	J/80	J/80 World Championships			Keane, Mcnay, Weed & Wolfs (2014)		[44]
	Melges 20	Melges 20 World Championships			Kilroy, Goodison & Reynolds (2014)		[45]
	Melges 24	Melges 24 World Championships			Favini, Benussi, Albrizzi, Rizzi & Dal Ferro (2014)		[46]
	Melges 32	Melges 32 World Championships			Carroll, Appleton, Barlow, Kotoun, Kuschner, Landy, Norris & Wehrheim (2014)		[47]
	Micro	Micro World Championships			Tarnacki, Becker & Mongird (2013)		[48]
	Platu 25 (Beneteau 25)	Platu 25 World Championships			Lanera, Montefusco, Montefusco, de Felice & Valenti (2014)		[49]
	RC44	RC44 World Championships			Liubomirov, Ivaldi, Barovier, Ikonnikov, Mantovani, Krivov & Liubomirova (2014)	4 (2014)
	SB20 (Laser SB3)	SB20 World Championships			Neugodnikov, Musikhin & Kuznetsov (2014)		[50]
	Shark 24	Shark 24 World Championships			Piper, Nelson & Clark (2013)		[51]
	Soling	Soling World Championships		1969–	Farkas, Vezér & Csaba (2015)	45 (2015)
	Sonar	Sonar World Championships
	Star	Star World Championships	Men	1923–	Stanjek & Kleen (2014)	92 (2014)
	Tempest	Tempest World Championships
	Ultimate 20	Ultimate 20 World Championships			no longer held		[3]
	Yngling		Open		Haven, van Arem & van der Werf (2014)		[52]
			Women
Multihull	A-Class
	C Class Cat	C Class Cat World Championships	Open		no longer held		[3]
	Dart 18
	Extreme 40	Extreme 40 World Championships	Open		no longer held
	Formula 16
	Formula 18
	Hobie 14
	Hobie 16
	Hobie 17				no longer held		[3]
	Hobie 18				no longer held		[3]
	Hobie Dragoon
	Hobie Tiger
	Hobie Wildcat
	Nacra 17	Nacra 17 World Championships	Mixed	2013–	Besson & Riou (2015)	2
	Nacra F18				no longer held		[3]
	Nacra Infusion
	SL 16
	Topcat K1
	Tornado	Tornado World Championships	Open	1968–	Paschalidis & Trigonis (2015)	45
			Mixed	2010–	Gäbler & Gäbler (2015)	1
	Viper F16
Boards	Aloha				no longer held		[3]
	Division I				no longer held		[3]
	Division II				no longer held		[3]
	Division III				no longer held		[3]
	Formula 42				no longer held		[3]
	Formula Experience		Open		Gonzalo Costa Hoevel (2013)		[53]
	Formula Kite	Formula Kite World Championships	Men		Maxime Nocher (2014)		[54]
			Women		Elena Kalinina (2014)		[54]
	Formula Windsurfing	Formula Windsurfing World Championships	Open		Ross Williams (2014)		[55]
			Youth		Karl-Erik Saarm (2014)		[55]
			Masters		Janis Preiss (2014)		[55]
	Funboard		Open Slalom		Ben van der Steen (2014)		[56]
	Kona				Rasmus Sayre (2014)		[57]
	Lechner A-390	Lechner A-390 World Championships	Men	1989–1992	no longer held		[3][58]
			Women	1989–1992	no longer held		[3][59]
	Mistral	Mistral World Championships	Men	1986–	Cheng Kwok Fai (2006)		[60]
			Women	1986–	Wang Shuijia (2006)		[61]
	Mistral Junior				no longer held		[3]
	Raceboard		Men		Maksymilian Wojcik (2013)		[62]
			Women		Vita Matise (2013)		[62]
	RS:One		Men		Geylord Coveta (2012)		[63]
			Women		Marina Alabau Neira (2012)		[63]
			Junior Men		Chun Ting Lee (2012)		[63]
	RS:X	RS:X World Championships	Men	2005–	Julien Bontemps (2014)	7
			Women	2005–	Charline Picon (2014)	7
	Techno 293		Men		Tom Arnoux (2014)		[64]
			Women		Giorgia Speciale (2014)		[64]
			Boys		Carlo Ciabatti (2014)		[64]
			Girls		Lucie Pianazza (2014)		[64]
	Windglider				no longer held		[3]
Yachts	Class 40	Class 40 World Championships	Open		Botin, Piris Turner, Santurde Del Arco, Ortiz Deurbina, Lopez-Doriga, Carrion & Ruigomez (2012)		[65]
	Farr 30 (Mumm 30)	Farr 30 World Championships	Open		Brüning (2014)
	Farr 40	Farr 40 World Championships	Open		Rossi, Bagnaschi, Caracci, Cassinari, Fantini, Fiaschi, Figlia di Granara, Mascino, Strappati & Vascotto (2013)		[66]
	Farr 45 (Corel 45)	Farr 45 World Championships	Open		no longer held		[3]
	Farr Maxi One Design				no longer held		[3]
	IMOCA 60	IMOCA 60 World Championships	Open
	J/111	J/111 World Championships
	Maxi 72	Maxi 72 World Championships	Open		Bella Mente (2015)		[67]
	Mumm 36	Mumm 36 World Championships			no longer held		[3]
	Open 50	Open 50 World Championships	Open		no longer held		[3]
	ORMA 60	ORMA 60 World Championships	Open		no longer held		[3]
	Soto 40	Soto 40 World Championships
	Swan 45	Swan 45 World Championships	Open		Brandis, Maehlmann, Hampe, Schümann, Paez, Molloy, Howar, von Schumann, Fricke, Wilcken, Kramer-Liebau & Zenker (2014)		[68]
	Swan 60	Swan 60 World Championships	Open		Liubomirov, Chieffi, Innocenti, Wysocki, Arseniev, Novi, Galli, Sergeev, Ikonnikov, Pavoni, Zennaro, Kulakov, Lagesse, Savenko, Klepikov, Liubomirova, Vasilev & Chelombitko (2014)		[69]
	Sydney 40	Sydney 40 World Championships	Open		no longer held
	TP 52	TP 52 World Championships	Open		United States (2014)
	X-35	X-35 World Championships	Open		Conte, Tortarolo, De Mari, de Felice, Chieffi, Sanchez, Cattai, Tonelli & Weber (2014)		[70]
	X-41	X-41 World Championships	Open		Cantell (2014)		[71]
	X-99	X-99 World Championships	Open	1997–2010	no longer held		[3]
Radio sailing	10 Rater	10 Rater World Championships	Open		Graham Bantock (1999)		[72]
	A Class	A Class World Championships	Open		Graham Bantock (2005)		[73]
	Marblehead	Marblehead World Championships	Open		Bradley Gibson (2014)		[74]
	One Metre	One Metre World Championships	Open		Bradley Gibson (2015)		[75]

Other World Championships

Multiple World Champions

This is not a complete list but the following are known to have won eight or more World Championship titles.

Titles	Name	Country	Class(es)
13[76]	Robert Scheidt	Brazil	Laser (1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2013) Star (2007, 2011, 2012) Youth Worlds (1991)
13[77][78]	Paul Elvstrøm	Denmark	5.5 (1967) 505 (1957, 1959) Dragon Finn (1958, 1959) Flying Duthman (1962) Soling (1969, 1974) Star (1966, 1967) Snipe (1959) Half Ton
12[79]	Glenn Ashby	Australia	A Class (1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010) F18 (2004, 2005, 2007) Tornado (2006, 2008)
11[80]	Ben Ainslie	Great Britain	Laser Radial (1993) Laser (1998, 1999) Finn (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2012) Youth Worlds (1995) Match Racing (2010)
9	Christian Schafer	Germany	Tempest (1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2011)
9	Darren Bundock	Australia	Formula 16 (2011) Formula 18 (2005, 2007) Tornado (1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008)
8	Eduardo Cordero	Venezuela	Sunfish (1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004)
8	Graham Bantock	Great Britain	10 Rater (1999) A Class (2005) One Metre (1994, 1999) Marblehead (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998)

Notes

References

See also

• International Sailing Federation
• European Sailing Championships

External links

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