Esailing World Championship
Esports tournament
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The Esailing World Championship (ESWC) is an annual esports competition, first held in 2018 and officially recognized by World Sailing the main sports governing body. Esailing consists of real time regatta simulation via video game.
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| Established | 2018 |
Number of tournaments | Annual |
| Administrator | World Sailing |
| Website | www |
The video game support of the competition since 2018 is provided by the French company Virtual Regatta. Esailing is also one of the esport disciplines selected by the International Olympic Committee for the Olympics Esports Weeks (OEW) and Olympics Virtual Series (OVS).
Esailing World Championship - Results
| Year | Finals Location | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Discipline | Notes |
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| 2018 | Sarasota, Florida |  "L1" - Elouan Le coq (FRA) | "Epicure" - O. Chapuis (FRA) |  Alessandro Merlino (ITA) | Inshore Fleet Racing | [1][2] |
| 2019 | Bermuda | "Velista71" - Filippo Lanfranchi (ITA) | "Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) | Luca Coslovich (ITA) |
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| 2020 | Virtual |  Joan Cardona Méndez (ESP) | CNS - Ramón Parejo (ESP) | "Déjà Vu" -  Mike O'Donovan (GBR) |
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| 2021 | Virtual | UOL - Carlos Parejo (ESP) | "VIT Chico" -  Francisco Pinheiro de Melo (POR) | "MCES Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA) |
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| 2022 | Alicante | "AlexK RS" - Alexandre Kowalski (FRA) | "Farley RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) |  Bart Lambriex (NED) |
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| 2023 | Trieste | "UOL Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) | "Farley RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) | "UOL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA) |
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| 2024 | Stockholm | "F7 RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) | "ChicoPmelo" - Francisco Pinheiro de Melo (POR) | "FUNe KG-R" -  Toshiki Kogure (JPN) |
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| 2025 | Gdynia | "Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) | "FSC-Kazuki" - Kazuki Miyamae (JPN) | "zemendes-RS" - José Mendes (POR) |
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Team Esailing World Championship - nations'Cup
Since 2020, the Esailing Team World Championship are also organized among supporting national federations of World Sailing. The team from Great Britain (GBR) won the first edition, followed by the team from France (FRA) in 2021,2022,2024, the team from Italie (ITA) in 2023 and the team from Japan (JPN) in 2025.
Esailing Nations Medal Scoreboard
Ranking of nation by medal obtained in Esailing World Championships from World Sailing
| Country - federation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ESWC participants | ||||
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| France (FRA) |
7 |
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3 |
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3 |
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19 |
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| Great Britain (GBR) |
2 |
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4 |
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1 |
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7 |
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| Italie (ITA) |
2 |
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2 |
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3 |
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11 |
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| Spain (ESP) |
2 |
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2 |
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1 |
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8 |
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| Japan (JPN) |
1 |
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1 |
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3 |
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9 |
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| Portugal (POR) |
2 |
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1 |
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3 |
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| Netherlands (NED) |
1 |
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5 |
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 Turkiye (TUR) |
3 |
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 Sweden (SWE) |
3 |
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 Brasil (BRA) |
3 |
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 Greece (GRE) |
2 |
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 Poland (POL) |
2 |
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 New Zealand (NZL) |
1 |
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 Croatia (CRO) |
1 |
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 Germany (GER) |
1 |
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 Switzerland (SUI) |
1 |
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 Ukraine (UKR) |
1 |
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Olympics Virtual Series (OVS) Esailing Champions
During the Spring 2021, The Olympics Virtual Series where held. For the first time, 5 esports disciplines organized esport Competition under the Olympic realm.
Esailing being one of the 5 selected esports.
The Inshore Series featured three action-fueled events which each crowned a winner and runners-up. The three events were split into three boat types; the 49’er, Laser and Nacra 17, and took place on the shores of Kiel, Rio de Janeiro and Marseille.[20][21]
Laser - 25 May 2021
| Boat | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
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| Laser | "Havuc" - Kaan Mazlumca (TUR) | Mike O'Donovan (GBR) | Tim Carpentier (FRA) | [22] |
49er - 6 June 2021
| Boat | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49er |  Lukas Mohr (DEN) | Arhur Farley (GBR) | Tangi Le Goff (FRA) | [23] |
Nacra - 23 June 2021
| Boat | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nacra | Arhur Farley (GBR) | Bart Lambriex (NED) | Joan Cardona Méndez (ESP) | [24][25] |
The Offshore Race was a race from Rio to Tokyo.
Olympics Esports Week (OEW) - Esailing - Singapore 2023
European Championship Results
The Esailing European Championship was run by EUROSAF in 2023 and 2024.
| Year | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Discipline |
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| 2023 | "asere" - Tristan Péron (FRA) | "Farley" - Arthur Farley (GBR) | "Pichnett" - Théo Pichery (FRA) | Inshore Fleet Racing |
| 2024 | "asere" - Tristan Péron (FRA) | "Luca Coslovich" - Luca Coslovich (ITA) | Moro Di Napoli - Antonio D'Angelo (ITA) |
2024 America's Cup Eseries
In September 2024, The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup has entered into esport with AC Sailing and the first-ever esport AC championship.
The competition consisted of six weekly online qualifier rounds, with the winners earning their spot in the America’s Cup e-Series Grand Final.
Two additional wild-card players joined the live final held on September 28th in Barcelona. The final saw the victory of Liam Dimock | EsailingCentral from New Zealand after 5 contested Races, bringing home the trophy and 25000€ cash prize.[30] [31] [32][33]
The competition was held using the America Cup sailing simulator game, developed & published by Emirates Team New Zealand[34]
| Boat | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
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| AC 40 | "EsailingCentral" - Liam Dimock (NZL) | "Booshify" Robbie Wooldridge (NZL) | BengBengFra (FRA) | [35] |