2023 Sailing World Championships

The 2023 Sailing World Championships were held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 8 to 20 August 2023. It was the sixth edition of the Sailing World Championships^[1] and the world championships for all disciplines at the next Olympics, and for four para sailing classes. It took place on the waters off Scheveningen and offered the chance to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, whose sailing competition were held in Marseille.^[2] Para sailing was held on Braassemermeer.^[2] Approximately 1,400 sailors were expected.^[1]

2023 Sailing World Championships

Event title
Edition	6th
Event details
Venue	The Hague, the Netherlands
Dates	8–20 August 2023
Titles	14
Competitors
Competing nations	80
Qualification(s)	2024 Summer Olympics
← 2018 2026 →

The venue hosted the 2022 Youth Sailing World Championships.^[3]

Host selection

The following cities competed to win the right to host the Championships. ^[4]

• Auckland, New Zealand
• The Hague, Netherlands

In May 2018, The Hague was chosen host of the championship.^[4] In 2020, it was decided the championships will be held in 2023 instead of 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Competition format

Events and equipment

The following events are open for entries:^[2]

Event	Equipment	Max. entries
Olympic events
Men's dinghy	ILCA 7	140
Men's skiff	49er	85
Men's windsurfer	iQFoil	100
Men's kiteboarding	Formula Kite	90
Women's dinghy	ILCA 6	120
Women's skiff	49er FX	70
Women's kiteboarding	Formula Kite	60
Women's windsurfer	iQFoil	100
Mixed dinghy	470	70
Mixed multihull	Nacra 17	80
Para sailing events
Men's one-person non-technical	Hansa 303	50
Women's one-person non-technical	Hansa 303	30
Open one-person technical	2.4 Metre	40
Open two-person technical	RS Venture Connect	16

Summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Netherlands)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands*	2	1	0	3
2	France	2	0	1	3
3	Italy	1	1	2	4
4	Japan	1	1	1	3
5	Germany	1	1	0	2
	Israel	1	1	0	2
	Poland	1	1	0	2
8	Australia	1	0	2	3
9	Sweden	1	0	1	2
10	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Singapore	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
13	Great Britain	0	3	2	5
14	Switzerland	0	2	0	2
15	Portugal	0	1	1	2
	Spain	0	1	1	2
17	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
18	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		14	14	14	42

Event medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
470 details	Keiju Okada Miho Yoshioka  Japan	Jordi Xammar Nora Brugman  Spain	Tetsuya Isozaki Yurie Seki  Japan
49er details	Bart Lambriex Floris van de Werken  Netherlands	Sebastien Schneiter Arno De Planta  Switzerland	Diego Botín Florián Trittel  Spain
49er FX details	Vilma Bobeck Rebecca Netzler  Sweden	Odile van Aanholt Annette Duetz  Netherlands	Olivia Price Evie Haseldine  Australia
Men's Formula Kite details	Maximilian Maeder  Singapore	Toni Vodišek  Slovenia	Axel Mazella  France
Women's Formula Kite details	Lauriane Nolot  France	Eleanor Aldridge  Great Britain	Lily Young  Great Britain
ILCA 7 details	Matthew Wearn  Australia	Michael Beckett  Great Britain	George Gautrey  New Zealand
ILCA 6 details	Mária Érdi  Hungary	Maud Jayet  Switzerland	Anne-Marie Rindom  Denmark
Men's iQFoil details	Luuc van Opzeeland  Netherlands	Sebastian Kördel  Germany	Nicolò Renna  Italy
Women's iQFoil details	Shahar Tibi  Israel	Katy Spychakov  Israel	Emma Wilson  Great Britain
Nacra 17 details	Ruggero Tita Caterina Banti  Italy	John Gimson Anna Burnet  Great Britain	Emil Järudd Hanna Jonsson  Sweden
Men's Hansa 303 details	Piotr Cichocki  Poland	Takumi Niwa  Japan	João Pinto  Portugal
Women's Hansa 303 details	Betsy Alison  United States	Olga Górnaś-Grudzień  Poland	Alison Weatherly  Australia
2.4 Metre details	Heiko Kröger  Germany	Antonio Squizzato  Italy	Davide Di Maria  Italy
RS Venture Connect details	Ange Margaron Olivier Ducruix  France	Pedro Reis Guilherme Ribeiro  Portugal	John McRoberts Scott Lutes  Canada

Participating national federations

Participating national federations and number of boats per federation:^[5]

•  Angola (2)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (2)
•  Argentina (14)
•  Aruba (3)
•  Australia (36)
•  Austria (13)
•  Bahamas (1)
•  Belgium (9)
•  Belize (1)
•  Bermuda (4)
•  Brazil (17)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Bulgaria (3)
•  Canada (19)
•  Cayman Islands (2)
•  Chile (5)
•  China (28)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Croatia (13)
•  Cyprus (6)
•  Czech Republic (17)
•  Denmark (21)
•  Dominican Republic (2)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Estonia (9)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (14)
•  France (52)
•  Germany (38)
•  Great Britain (44)
•  Greece (19)
•  Guatemala (2)
•  Hong Kong (13)
•  Hungary (6)
•  India (13)
•  Ireland (6)
•  Israel (24)
•  Italy (36)
•  Japan (29)
•  Latvia (5)
•  Lithuania (7)
•  Macau (1)
•  Malaysia (3)
•  Malta (1)
•  Mauritius (2)
•  Mexico (8)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Montenegro (2)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Mozambique (1)
•  Netherlands (40)
•  New Zealand (25)
•  Norway (13)
•  Oman (4)
•  Peru (6)
•  Poland (29)
•  Portugal (13)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  Saint Lucia (1)
•  Samoa (2)
•  Serbia (1)
•  Singapore (6)
•  Slovakia (2)
•  Slovenia (8)
•  South Korea (4)
•  Spain (31)
•  Sweden (20)
•  Switzerland (22)
•  Thailand (10)
•  Tonga (1)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (16)
•  U.S. Virgin Islands (2)
•  Ukraine (4)
•  United States (39)
•  Uruguay (3)
•  Venezuela (2)