2018 Sailing World Championships

2018 Sailing World Championships
Event title
Edition	5th
Event details
Venue	Aarhus, Denmark
Dates	30 July – 12 August 2018
Titles	12
Competitors
Competing nations	84
Qualification(s)	2020 Summer Olympics
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The 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships were held in Aarhus, Denmark, from 30 July to 12 August 2018. It was the fifth edition of the Sailing World Championships. It was the world championships for all disciplines used at the next Olympics. Sailors from 84 nations raced in the waters of the Bay of Aarhus for world championships medals and the possibility to be qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Edition5th

VenueAarhus, Denmark

Dates30 July – 12 August 2018

Titles12

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The event took place on the Docklands, at the exact spot where the Vikings founded Aarhus. A new world class sailing centre was the venue for 14 days leaving significant impact on Denmark's sailors and on the further urban development in Aarhus.

Event	Equipment	Max. entries
Men's one-person dinghy	Laser	165
Men's one-person dinghy (heavyweight)	Finn	90
Men's two-person dinghy	470	105
Men's skiff	49er	105
Men's windsurfer	RS:X	100
Men's kiteboarding	Formula Kite	90
Women's one-person dinghy	Laser Radial	120
Women's two-person dinghy	470	70
Women's skiff	49er FX	80
Women's kiteboarding	Formula Kite	30
Women's windsurfer	RS:X	80
Mixed multihull	Foiling Nacra 17	80

Date → Event ↓	Thu 2	Fri 3	Sat 4	Sun 5	Mon 6	Tue 7	Wed 8	Thu 9	Fri 10	Sat 11	Sun 12
Men's 470	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Women's 470	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Men's 49er			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Women's 49er FX			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Men's Finn	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Men's Formula Kite				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Women's Formula Kite				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Men's Laser		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Women's Laser Radial		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Mixed Nacra 17				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Men's RS:X				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Women's RS:X				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	3	2	1	6
2	France	2	2	3	7
3	Japan	1	1	0	2
4	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Cyprus	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
10	Australia	0	2	0	2
11	Great Britain	0	1	2	3
12	Spain	0	1	1	2
13	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
16	Germany	0	0	2	2
17	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	China	0	0	1	1
	Denmark*	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		12	12	12	36

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 470 details	Kevin Peponnet Jérémie Mion France	Tetsuya Isozaki Akira Takayanagi Japan	Jordi Xammar Nicolás Rodríguez Spain
Women's 470 details	Ai Kondo Yoshida Miho Yoshioka Japan	Silvia Mas Patricia Cantero Spain	Hannah Mills Eilidh McIntyre Great Britain
49er details	Šime Fantela Mihovil Fantela Croatia	Mathieu Frei [fr] Noé Delpech France	Tim Fischer Fabian Graf Germany
49er FX details	Annemiek Bekkering Annette Duetz Netherlands	Tanja Frank Lorena Abicht Austria	Sophie Weguelin Sophie Ainsworth Great Britain
Finn details	Zsombor Berecz Hungary	Max Salminen Sweden	Pieter-Jan Postma Netherlands
Men's Formula Kite details	Nicolas Parlier [fr] France	Guy Bridge Great Britain	Maxime Nocher France
Women's Formula Kite details	Daniela Moroz United States	Elena Kalinina Russia	Alexia Fancelli [fr] France
Laser details	Pavlos Kontides Cyprus	Matthew Wearn Australia	Philipp Buhl Germany
Laser Radial details	Emma Plasschaert Belgium	Marit Bouwmeester Netherlands	Anne-Marie Rindom Denmark
Nacra 17 details	Ruggero Tita Caterina Banti Italy	Nathan Outteridge Haylee Outteridge Australia	Santiago Lange Cecilia Carranza Argentina
Men's RS:X details	Dorian van Rijsselberghe Netherlands	Kiran Badloe Netherlands	Louis Giard [fr] France
Women's RS:X details	Lilian de Geus Netherlands	Charline Picon France	Lu Yunxiu China

2018 Sailing World Championships

Overview

Host selection

Venue

Competition format

Events and equipment

Competition schedule

Summary

Medal table

Event medalists

Participating national federations

References

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