29er World Championship

29er World Championship
Most recent edition or competition:; 2025 29er World Championship
First held	2000
Class	29er
Champions	Alex Demurtas & Giovanni Santi

The 29er World Championship is an annual international sailing regatta for 29ers, organized by the host club on behalf of the International 29er Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body.^[1]^[2]

Firstheld2000

Class29er

ChampionsAlex Demurtas & Giovanni Santi

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Editions			Host			Sailors			Boats				Ref.
No.	Date	Year	Host club	Location	Nat.	Tot	Nat	Con	No.			Mix	Ref.
1	17-23 Jul	2000	Fraglia Vela Riva	Riva del Garda	Italy	116	14	5	58	48	5	5	^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
2	14-20 Jul	2001	Canadian Olympic-training Regatta, Kingston	Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, Kingston, Ontario	Canada	128	9	6	64	45	5	14	^[7]^[8]^[9]
3	29 Dec 2002 - 4 Jan 2003	2002		Sydney	Australia	206	12	6	103	72	9	22	^[10]^[11]^[12]
4	11-17 Jul	2003	Real Club Nautico de Laredo	Laredo, Cantabria	Spain	112	12	4	56	38	7	11	^[13]^[14]
5	21-28 Aug	2004		Lake Silvaplana	Switzerland	168	12	4	84	51	10	23	^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]
6	3-10 Jul	2005	St. Francis Yacht Club	Berkeley, San Francisco, California	United States	156	11	6	78	59	10	9	^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]
7	23-28 Jul	2006	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy	isle of Portland	United Kingdom	210	17	5	105	69	15	21	^[23]^[24]
8	21-27 Jan	2007	Club Náutico San Isidro	San Isidro, Buenos Aires	Argentina	100	11	6	50	35	5	8	^[25]^[26]^[27]
9	4-9 Jan	2008	Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club	Sorrento, Victoria	Australia	204	13	6	102	74	15	13	^[28]^[29]^[30]
10	18-25 Jul	2009	Fraglia Vela Riva	Riva del Garda	Italy	370	21	5	185				^[31]^[32]^[33]
11	4-9 Jan	2010	Grand Bahama Sailing Club	Freeport	Bahamas	70	11	4	35	22	11	2	^[34]^[35]
12	3-8 Jan	2011	Club Náutico Mar del Plata	Mar del Plata	Argentina	120	12	4	60	45	4	11	^[36]^[37]^[38]
13	23 - 28 Jul	2012	Travemünde Woche	Travemünde, Lübeck	Germany	432	23	6	216				^[39]^[40]^[41]^[42]
14	28 Jul - 2 Aug	2013	Kaløvig Sailing Club	Aarhus	Denmark	426	25	6	213		35		^[43]^[44]^[45]
15	26 Jul - 2 Aug	2014	CORK–Kingston Portsmouth Olympic Harbour / Sail Kingston	Kingston, Ontario	Canada	202	14	5	101	69	17	15	^[46]^[47]^[48]
16	9 -14 Aug	2015	Pwllheli Sailing Club	Pwllheli, Wales	United Kingdom	386	25	6	193	129	40	24	^[49]^[50]^[51]
17	25 - 30 Jul	2016	Regatta Center Medemblik	Medemblik	Netherlands	456	29	5	228	139	63	26	^[52]^[53]^[54]^[55]^[56]
18	29 Jul - 5 Aug	2017	Alamitos Bay Yacht Club	Long Beach, California	United States	258	17	6	129	87	26	16	^[57]^[58]^[59]^[60]
19	30 Dec 2017- 8 Jan 2018	2018	Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	116	14	4	58	45	5	8	^[61]^[62]^[63]
20	26 Jul - 3 Aug	2019		Gdynia	Poland	350	27	5	175	103	58	14	^[64]^[65]
21	13 - 21 Aug	2020	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy	Isle of Portland	United Kingdom	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom							^[66]^[67]^[68]
21	21 - 31 Aug	2021	Real Club Náutico de Valencia	Valencia	Spain	378	24	3	189	112	54	23	^[69]^[70]^[71]^[72]
22	29 Jul - 5 Aug	2022	Club Nautico El Balís	Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, Barcelona	Spain	484	26	5	242	132	66	44	^[73]^[74]^[75] ^[76]
23	27 Jul - 3 Aug	2023	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy	Isle of Portland	United Kingdom	410	25	6	205	116	52	37	^[77] ^[78]^[79]
24	1 - 8 Aug	2024	Aarhus Sejlklub	Aarhus	Denmark	516	27	5	258	126	81	51	^[80] ^[81]^[82]
25	1 - 8 Aug	2025	Marina da Afurada	Vila Nova de Gaia	Portugal	404	26	4	202	104	57	41	^[83] ^[84]^[85]
26	27 June - 4 July	2026		Keil	Germany								^[86]
27	3 - 10 July	2027	Marseille Marina	Marseille	France								^[87]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2000 Italy	New Zealand Mike Bassett Mark Kennedy	Australia Evan McNicol John Winning	New Zealand Scott Kennedy Lindsay Kennedy	^[6]
2001 Canada	Great Britain John Pink Tom Weeks	Great Britain John Gimson Simon Marks	Australia Joseph Turner Charles Dorron	^[9]
2002 Australia	Australia John Winning Evan McNicol	Australia Nathan Outteridge Grant Rose	Australia Jonathan Bonnitcha Paul Bonnitcha	^[12]
2003 Spain	Great Britain David Evans Rick Peacock	Argentina Pepe Bettini Federico Villambrosa	Great Britain Thomas Smedley Stevie Wilson	^[14]
2004 Switzerland	Great Britain Tristan Jaques Alain Sign	Finland Lauri Lehtinen Miikka Pennanen	Australia David O'Connor Scott Babbage	^[18]
2005 United States	Australia Jacqui Bonnitcha Euan McNicol	Australia David O'Connor Scott Babbage	United States John Heineken Matt Noble	^[22]
2006 Great Britain	Finland Silja Lehtinen Scott Babbage	Great Britain Dylan Fletcher Rob Partridge	United States Cameron Biehl Matt Noble	^[24]
2007 Argentina	Argentina Matías Gainza Federico Villambrosa	Argentina Pepe Bettini Matías Keller	Argentina Ignacio Fernández Besada Tigris Martirosjan	^[27]
2008 Australia	Australia Steve Thomas Jasper Warren	Australia Byron White William Ryan	Great Britain Max Richardson Alex Groves	^[30]
2009 Italy	Australia Steve Thomas Blair Tuke	Australia Lauren Jeffies Nathan Outteridge	Australia Haylee Outteridge Iain Jensen	^[33]
2010 Bahamas	France Kevin Fisher Glen Gouron	Argentina Pepe Bettini Fernando Gwozdz	Italy Lorenzo Franceschini Ricardo Camin	^[35]
2011 Argentina	Argentina María Belén Tavella Franco Greggi	Argentina Pepe Bettini Fernando Gwozdz	Argentina Francisco Cosentino Tomás Wagmáister	^[38]
2012 Germany	Spain Carlos Robles Florián Trittel	France Lucas Rual Kevin Fischer	Argentina Klaus Lange Mateo Majdalani	^[88]
2013 Denmark	France Lucas Rual Émile Amoros	New Zealand Markus Somerville Jack Simpson	Spain Martí Llena Oriol Mahiques	^[89]
2014 Canada	Australia Kurt Hansen Harry Morton	France Brice Yrieix Loic Ficher-Guillou	Germany Jasper Steffens Tom Lennart Brauckmann	^[90]
2015 Great Britain	Australia Kyle O'Connell Tom Siganto	Argentina Ignacio Varisco Federico García	United States Christopher Williford Wade Waddell	^[91]
2016 Netherlands	Australia Tom Crockett Harry Morton	France Gwendal Nael Lilian Mercier	Great Britain Crispin Beaumont Tom Darling	^[92]
2017 United States	South Africa Benji Daniel Alex Burger	France Benjamin Jaffrezic Léo Chauvel	France Théo Revil Gautier Guevel	^[62]
2018 Hong Kong	New Zealand Francesco Kayrouz Jackson Keon	Australia Lachie Brewer Max Paul	France Benjamin Jaffrezic Léo Chauvel	^[93]
2019 Poland	France Aristide Girou Noah Chauvin	United States Stephan Baker Ripley Shelley	Sweden Alice Moss Carl Hörfelt	^[94]^[95]
2020 Great Britain	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic			^[96]
2021 Spain	Spain Mateo Codoñer Simón Codoñer	Spain Quicorras Urios Filippo Binetti	Denmark Jens-Christian Dehn-Toftehøj Jens-Philip Dehn-Toftehøj	^[70]
2022 Spain	Argentina Máximo Videla Tadeo Funes	Italy Alex Demurtas Giovanni Santi	France Hugo Revil Karl Devaux	^[76]
2023 Great Britain	Ireland Clementine Van Steenberge Nathan Van Steenberge	Argentina Máximo Videla Juan Cruz Albamonte	Italy Alex Demurtas Giovanni Santi	^[79]
2024 Denmark	Italy Alex Demurtas Giovanni Santi	Poland Ewa Lewandowska Krzysztof Królik	France Jocelyn Le Goff Jules Vidor	^[82]
2025 Portugal	Norway Nicklas Holt Philip Forslund	France Jocelyn Le Goff Jules Vidor	France Nolann Huet des Aunay Titouan Gresset	^[85]

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Most recent edition or competition: 2025 29er World Championship
First held	2000
Class	29er
Champions	Alex Demurtas & Giovanni Santi