Soling European Championship

The Soling European Championship is an International sailing regatta in the Soling organized by the International Soling Association under auspiciën of World Sailing.^[1] Over 50 Soling European Championship were held. The popularity grew during the Olympic period of the Soling. After that era the event continued and is still reasonable successful. The Soling European Championship is an "Open" event. This means that competitors from all over the world are eligible to enter.

Soling

Class insigna
Name	Soling

The European Championship Perpetual Trophy, THE SOLING CUP, has been donated by the Royal Danish Yacht Club with the intention of bringing together as many competitors of different nationalities as possible for yacht racing in a friendly spirit is one of the two perpetual trophies for the winning team of the Soling European Championship.

The Swedish Soling Association’s Perpetual Prize in 1987 made and donated by Valter Saaristu to the winner of the European Championship is the other perpetual trophy for the winning team of the Soling European Championship. Winners engraved on the back board.

During the Olympic era of the Soling (1969 - 2000) the European Championships were a primary selection event for the NOC's to determine their Olympic delegation in the class.

Editions

#	Year	City	Country	Dates	Boats	Athletes	Nations	Note/ Reference
1	1968	Skovshoved	Denmark	15–22 July	25	75	?	[2][3]
2	1969	Sandhamn	Sweden		46	138	11	[2][3]
3	1970	Hankø	Norway	15–22 July				[2][3]
4	1971	Travemünde	West Germany	8–16 August				[2][3][4]
5	1972	Skovshoved	Denmark	8–16 August				[2][3]
6	1973	Medemblik	Netherlands	14–22 July				[2][3]
7	1974	Helensburgh	United Kingdom	1–8 September	53	159		[2][3]
8	1975	Alassio	Italy	17–25 May	62	168		[2][3][5]
9	1976	Geneva	Switzerland	28 April – 8 May	54	162		[2][3]
10	1977	Piraeus	Greece	26 August – 6 September				[2][3]
11	1978	Kiel	West Germany	2–9 July	73	219		[2][3]
12	1979	La Rochelle	France	26 August – 2 September	43	129	14	[2][3]
13	1980	Helsinki	Finland	4–13 June	40	120	13	[2][3]
14	1981	Attersee	Austria	30 August – 6 September	43	129	13	[2][3]
15	1982	Dragør	Denmark	11–19 September	51	153	13	[2][3]
16	1983	Medemblik	Netherlands	2–10 September	50	150	17	[2][3]
17	1984	Not held due to Olympic Games						[2]
18	1985	Balatonfüred	Hungary	17–27 May	53	159	16	[2][3]
19	1986	Warnemünde	East Germany	4–13 July	47	141	16	[2][3]
20	1987	Karlshamn	Sweden	28 August – 6 September	51	153	18	[2][6][3]
21	1988	Alassio	Italy	8–14 May	63	189	20	[2][3]
22	1989	Oslo	Norway	1–9 September	48	144	17	[2][3]
23	1990	Prien am Chiemsee	West Germany	30 April – 6 May	69	207	19	[2][3][7]
24	1991	La Baule	France	30 May – 9 June	83	249	20	[2][3][8]
25	1992	Lake Garda	Italy	17–26 September	45	235	14	[2][3][9]
26	1993	Portorož	Slovenia	5–12 June	39	117	13	[2][10][3][11]
27	1994	Vilamoura	Portugal	17–23 September	32	96	16	[2][12][3][13]
28	1995	Marstrand	Sweden	12–18 June	56	168	21	[2][3][14]
29	1996	Lake Balaton	Hungary	19–27 September	31	93	12	[3][15]
30	1997	Troon	United Kingdom	6–12 September	37	111	13	[16][3][17]
31	1998	Izola	Slovenia	4–11 July 1998	51	153	17	[3][18]
32	1999	Sandefjord	Norway	25–31 July	47	141	19	[19][3][20]
33	2000	La Rochelle	France	11–17 June	27	81	14	[21][3][22]
34	2001	Attersee	Austria	1–8 September	31	93	10	[23][3][24]
35	2002	Castiglione della Pescaia	Italy	27 May – 1 June	32	96	10	[25][3][26]
36	2003	Nago–Torbole	Italy	31 August - 4 September	24	72	10	[27][3][28]
37	2004	Tønsberg	Norway	2–8 August	20	60	9	[29][30]
38	2005	Medemblik	Netherlands	7–12 August	20	60	7	[31][32]
39	2006	Balatonfüred	Hungary	13–19 May	25	75	12	[33][34]
40	2007	Arendal	Norway	28 July – 3 August	52	156	14	[35][36]
41	2008	Balatonfured	Hungary	20–27 April	19	57	10	[37][38]
42	2009	Lovere	Italy	31 July – 8 August	36	108	10	[39][40]
43	2010	La Trinité-sur-Mer	France	28 August – 4 September	25	75	11	[41][42]
44	2011	Attersee	Austria	27 August – 4 September	32	96	10	[43][44]
45	2012	Aarhus	Denmark	9–15 June	33	99	12	[45][46]
46	2013	Castiglione della Pescaia	Italy	28 March – 3 April	21	63	10	[47][48]
47	2014	Quiberon	France	14–19 June	16	48	12	[49]
48	2015	Berlin	Germany	13–19 September	27	84	6	[50][51]
49	2016	Ebensee	Austria	2–5 May	35	105	11	[52][53]
50	2017	Riva del Garda	Italy	13–16 June	37	111	11	[54][55]
51	2018	Alsóörs	Hungary	1–5 May	22	66	09	[56]
52	2019	Torbole	Italy	25–29 June	32	96	11	[57][58]
53	2020	Warnemunde	Germany	16-21 June	Not held due to COVID-19			[59]
54	2021	Santander, Spain	Spain		Rescheduled and relocated due to COVID-19
	2021	Mandello del Lario	Italy	30 September – 3 October	25	75	9	,[60][61]
55	2022	Attersee (lake)	Austria	29 August - 3 September	31	93	10	[62][63]
56	2023	Warnemunde	Germany					[citation needed]

Medalists

Year v t e	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1968  Denmark Skovshoved details	Norway Per Spilling Jim Mc Elvin Dag Blomdal	Netherlands Geert Bakker Crew not documented	Denmark Niels Bolt Jörgensen Crew not documented
1969  Sweden Sandhamn details	Sweden Arved von Grünewaldt Tommy Nilsson Anders Nordin	Sweden H. Kellner Crew not documented	West Germany Norbert Wagner Crew not documented
1970  Norway Hankø details	Denmark Paul Elvstrøm Poul Mik-Meyer Jan Kjærulff	Sweden Arved von Grünewaldt Tommy Nilsson Anders Nordin	Sweden Pelle Petterson Crew not documented
1971  West Germany Travemünde details	Denmark Paul Elvstrøm Flemming Jensen Valdemar Bandolowski	Soviet Union Timur Pinegin Valentin Zamotaykin Rais Galimov	Denmark Niels Bolt Jörgensen Crew not documented
1972  Denmark Skovshoved details	East Germany Roland Schwarz Lothar Köpsel Werner Christoph	United Kingdom John Oakeley Charles Reynolds Barry Dunning	Denmark Paul Elvstrøm Niels Jensen Valdemar Bandolowski
1973  Netherlands Medemblik details	East Germany Dieter Below Michael Zachries Olaf Engelhardt	Austria Uli Strohschneider Crew not documented	East Germany Roland Schwarz Lothar Köpsel Werner Christoph
1974  United Kingdom Firth of Clyde details	West Germany Willi Kuhweide Karsten Meyer Axel May	Denmark Poul Richard Høj Jensen Crew not documented	East Germany Roland Schwarz Lothar Köpsel Werner Christoph
1975  Italy Alassio details	Sweden Stig Wennerström Stefan Krook Lennart Roslund	East Germany Roland Schwarz Lothar Köpsel Werner Christoph	Italy Fabio Albarelli Leopoldo di Martino Guidotti
1976  Switzerland Geneva details	East Germany Dieter Below Michael Zachries Olaf Engelhardt	Denmark Poul Richard Høj Jensen Valdemar Bandolowski Erik Hermann Hansen	Austria Herbert Raudaschl Walter Raudaschl Rudi Mayer
1977  Greece Piraeus details	West Germany Fritz Geis Gerhard Fehlner Ernst Günter Beck	West Germany Willi Kuhweide Axel May Karsten Meyer	Denmark Valdemar Bandolowski Crew not documented
1978  West Germany Kiel details	Canada Hans Fogh John Kerr Dennis Toews	Canada Glenn Dexter Andreas Josenhans Sandy McMillan	East Germany Dieter Below Olaf Engelhardt Michael Zachries
1979  France La Rochelle details	Brazil Eduardo de Souza Manfred Kaufman Thomas Heiman	Netherlands Geert Bakker Pieter Keijzer Harald de Vlaming	Sweden Arved von Grünewaltdt Tommy Nilsson Anders Nordin
1980  Finland Helsinki details	Soviet Union Boris Budnikov Nikolay Polyakov Aleksandr Budnikov	West Germany Willi Kuhweide Eckart Loell Sebastian Ziegelmayer	Denmark Poul Richard Høj Jensen Valdemar Bandolowski Erik Hermann Hansen
1981  Austria Attersee (lake) details	Austria Michael Farthofer Christian Holler Georg Vartian	East Germany Jörg Hermann B. Becker O. Olbrich	West Germany Fritz Geis Richard Fricke Karl Fricke
1982  Denmark Dragør details	Canada Hans Fogh John Kerr Poul Richard Høj Jensen	Soviet Union Boris Budnikov Aleksandr Budnikov Nikolay Polyakov	Soviet Union Eugenij Kudriavtsev Crew not documented
1983  Netherlands Medemblik details	Canada Hans Fogh John Kerr (sailor) Steve Calder	Soviet Union Boris Budnikov Gennadi Strakh Oleg Miron	East Germany Helmar Nauck Norbert Hellriegel Sven Diedering
1984	Not held due to Olympic Games
1985  Hungary Balatonfüred details	Norway Terje Wang Jørn Petterson Tom Stian Selander	East Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	Soviet Union Georgy Shayduko Sergej Kanov Nikolay Polyakov
1986  East Germany Warnemünde details	East Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	Sweden Lennart Persson Eje Öberg Tony Wallin	Germany Thomas Jungblut Thomas Maschkiwitz Tim Kröger
1987  Sweden Karlshamn details	Soviet Union Georgy Shayduko Sergej Kanov Nikolay Polyakov	East Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	Canada Hans Fogh Steve Calder Hank Lammens
1988  Italy Alassio details	East Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	United States John Kostecki William Baylis Bob Billingham	Denmark Jesper Bank Jan Mathiassen Steen Secher
1989  Norway Oslo details	Denmark Jesper Bank Jesper Seier Steen Secher	Soviet Union Sergey Pichuguin Gennadi Strakh Andrei Nikandrov	East Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel
1990  Germany Prien am Chiemsee details	France Marc Bouet Alain Pointet Fabrice Levet	East Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	Netherlands Roy Heiner Ed van der Steene Yska Minks
1991  France La Baule details	United States Dave Curtis Brad Dellenbaugh Paul Murphy	Sweden Magnus Holmberg Björn Alm Johan Barne	East Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel
1992  Italy Torbole details	Sweden Per Åhlby Stefan Nordström Jan-Olov Sandberg	Austria Michael Luschan Stefan Lindner Georg Stadler	Sweden Magnus Holmberg Björn Alm Johan Barne
1993  Slovenia Portorose details	Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	Germany Albert Batzill Peter Lang Eddy Eich	Norway Rune Jacobsen Erling Landsværk Thom Haaland
1994  Portugal Vilamoura details	Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	Denmark Stig Westergaard Jens Bojsen-Møller Bjørn Westergaard	Australia Ian Walker Michael Peel Stephan Jackson
1995  Sweden Marstrand details	Denmark Jesper Bank Kræn Nielsen Thomas Jacobsen	Norway Herman Horn Johannessen Paul Davis Espen Stokkeland	Australia Cameron Miles James Mayjor Chris Links
1996  Hungary Balatonfüred details	Ukraine Serhiy Pichuhin Serhiy Khaindrava Volodymyr Korotkov	Austria Christian Binder Franz Fellner Volker Moser	Hungary György Wossala László Kovácsi Károly Vezér
1997  United Kingdom Troon details	Germany Jochen Schümann Gunnar Bahr Ingo Borkowski	Great Britain Andy Beadsworth Barry Parkin Mason	Norway Herman Horn Johannessen Paul Davis Espen Stokkeland
1998  Slovenia Izola details	Ukraine Serhiy Pichuhin Volodymyr Korotkov Serhiy Timokhov	Russia Georgy Shayduko Sergey Voltshkov S. Kramskoy	Germany Jochen Schümann Gunnar Bahr Ingo Borkowski
1999  Sweden Sandefjord details	Netherlands Roy Heiner Peter Van Niekerk Dirk de Ridder	Ukraine Serhiy Pichuhin Volodymyr Korotkov Serhiy Timokhov	Germany Jochen Schümann Gunnar Bahr Ingo Borkowski
2000  France La Rochelle details	Denmark Jesper Bank Henrik Blakskjær Thomas Jacobsen	Russia Georgy Shayduko Oleg Khopyorsky Andrei Kiriliuk	Ukraine Serhiy Pichuhin Volodymyr Korotkov Serhiy Timokhov
2001  Austria Attersee (lake) details	Austria Christian Binder Nicky Fellner Volker Moser	Germany Heiko Winkler Stefan Wenzel Jens Niemann	Austria Carl Auteried Jr. Thomas Beclin Martin Kendler
2002  Italy Castiglione della Pescaia details	Austria Carl Auteried Jr. Martin Kendler Thomas Beclin	Austria Markus Schneeberger Volker Moser Christian Panek	Hungary György Wossala László Kovácsi Károly Vezér
2003  Italy Torbole details	Hungary Gyenese Balázs Gyula Mónus Károly Vezér	Germany Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann	Germany Karl Haist Daniel Diesing Jacob Carsten
2004  Norway Tonsberg details	Austria Markus Schneeberger Volker Moser Christian Panek	Slovenia Boštjan Antončič Gennadi Strakh Zeljko Perovic	Norway Pål Christoffersen Karl Book Espen Kamperhaug
2005  Netherlands Medemblik details	Germany Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann	Hungary György Wossala Pepe Németh Károly Vezér	Norway Dag Usterud Arne Ottestad Eskil Sønju Le Bruyn Goldeng
2006  Hungary Balatonfüred details	Ukraine Serhiy Pichuhin Ivan Chehlatiy Serhiy Timokhov	Germany Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann	Austria Carl Auteried Jr. Udo Moser Martin Kendler
2007  Norway Arendal details	Slovenia Boštjan Antončič Gennadi Strakh Serhiy Pichuhin	Germany Thomas Maschkiwitz Christian Öhler Kristof Wossala	Argentina Gustavo Warburg Maximo Smith Miguel Lacour
2008  Hungary Balatonfüred details	Hungary György Wossala Károly Vezér Pepe Németh	Germany Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann	Netherlands Johan Offermans Bas Dusee Dominik Meissner
2009  Italy Lovere details	Germany Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann	Austria Carl Auteried Jr. Udo Moser Martin Kendler	Hungary György Wossala Peper Németh Károly Vezér
2010  France La Trinite sur Mer details	Hungary György Wossala Károly Vezér Pepe Németh	Germany Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann	Argentina Gustavo Warburg Maximo Smith Hernan Celedoni
2011  Austria Attersee (lake) details	Germany Uwe Steingross Karsten Eller Tim Giesecke	United States Stuart H. Walker Georg Stadler Johannes Spitzk	Austria Johann Kahls Christian Kahls Ronnie Zeiler
2012  Denmark Arhus details	Argentina Gustavo Warburg Rodrigo Ferrés Miguel Lacour	Germany Karl Haist Martin Zeileis Patrick Wichmann	Netherlands Rudy den Outer Gavin Lidlow Ramzi Souli
2013  Italy Castiglione della Pescaia details	Ukraine Igor Yushko Serhiy Pichuhin Dmitriy Yarmolenka	Germany Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann	United States Charlie Kamps Jeremy McMahon Toby Kamps
2014  Italy Saint-Pierre-Quiberon details	Germany Uwe Steingross Karsten Eller Tim Giesecke	Canada Peter Hall Steve Lacey William Hall	Netherlands Rudy den Outer Gavin Lidlow Ramzi Souli
2015  Germany Grünau (Berlin) details	Germany Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Ingo Borkowski & Bernd Jäkel (last race)	Hungary Litkey Farkas Károly Vezér Gabor Croszlan	Ukraine Igor Yushko Sergey Pichugin Igor Severianov
2016  Austria Ebensee am Traunsee details	Austria Christian Binder Klaus Kratochwill Christian Feichtinger	Hungary Litkey Farkas Joo Kristoff Gabor Croszlan	Canada Peter Hall Steve Lacey William Hall
2017  Italy Riva del Garda details	Hungary Litkey Farkas Károly Vezér Csaba Weinhardt	Austria Florian Felzmann Michael Felzmann Margund Schuh	Ukraine Igor Yushko Serhiy Pichuhin Igor Severianov
2018  Hungary Alsóörs details	Hungary Sándor Varjas László Kovácsi Gábor Meretei	Hungary György Wossala Peter Németh Christoph Wossala	Hungary Annamária Sabján Bea Majoross András Bajusz
2019  Italy Torbole details	Finland Eki Heinonen Gabor Helmhout Mathias Heinonen	Hungary Sándor Varjas László Kovácsi Gábor Meretei	Austria Florian Felzmann Michael Felzmann Markus Gnan
2020  Germany Warnemünde details	Not held due to COVID-19
2021  Spain Santander details	Rescheduled and relocated due to COVID-19
2021  Italy Mandello del Lario details	Netherlands Rudy den Outer Theo de Lange Ramzi Souli	Hungary Sándor Varjas László Kovácsi Gábor Meretei	Hungary György Wossala Károly Vezér Christoph Wossala
2022  Austria Attersee (lake) details	Austria Florian Felzmann Stephan Beurle Michael Felzmann	Hungary Sándor Varjas László Kovácsi Gábor Meretei	Austria Christian Spiessberger Max Reisinger Gerhard Schlipfinger

Medal table

1968 - 2022

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	8	9	3	20
2	Austria	6	6	6	18
3	Hungary	6	6	5	17
4	East Germany	5	5	6	16
5	Sweden	4	4	3	11
6	Denmark	4	3	4	11
7	Ukraine	4	1	3	8
8	Canada	3	2	2	7
9	Soviet Union	2	4	2	8
10	West Germany	2	2	5	9
11	Netherlands	2	2	4	8
12	Norway	2	1	4	7
13	United States	1	2	1	4
14	Slovenia	1	1	0	2
15	Argentina	1	0	2	3
16	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	Finland	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
19	Great Britain	0	2	0	2
	Russia	0	2	0	2
21	Australia	0	0	2	2
22	Italy	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		54	52	53	159

Other statistics

Soling European Championships DATA 1968 - Present

Competing Countries in the European Soling Championships

Country	Host	Visitor	Competed
Argentina		6	6
Australia		10	10
Austria	4	38	42
Belgium		2	2
Bermuda		1	1
Belarus		3	3
Brazil		8	8
Canada		23	23
Croatia		2	2
Czech Republic		3	3
East Germany	1	15	16
Denmark	4	33	37
Spain		11	11
Finland	1	17	18
France	5	26	31
West Germany	3	15	18
United Kingdom	2	28	30
Germany	1	29	30
Greece	1	9	10
Hungary	5	28	33
Ireland		4	4
Italy	10	25	35
Japan		5	5
Liechtenstein		1	1
Monaco		1	1
Netherlands	3	40	43
Norway	5	26	31
New Zealand		2	2
Pakistan		1	1
Poland		6	6
Portugal	1	3	4
South Africa		2	2
Russia		4	4
Slovenia	2	17	19
Switzerland	1	13	14
Slovakia		3	3
Sweden	3	22	25
Ukraine		12	12
Soviet Union		13	13
United States		34	34
Yugoslavia		1	1

Race details

For further detailed results see:

• Soling European Championship results (1968–1979)
• Soling European Championship results (1980–1984)
• Soling European Championship results (1985–1989)
• Soling European Championship results (1990–1994)
• Soling European Championship results (1995–1999)
• Soling European Championship results (2000–2004)
• Soling European Championship results (2005–2009)
• Soling European Championship results (2010–2014)
• Soling European Championship results (2015–2019)
• Soling European Championship results (2020–2024)