Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification
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Qualification Timeline

Event Date Location
2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships Jun 28 - Jul 13, 2007   Cascais
Cascais
Cascais is a coastal town in Cascais Municipality in Portugal, 30 kilometres west of Lisbon, with about 35,000 residents. It is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the richest municipalities in Portugal. The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal's royal...

2008 49er World Championships January 2–9, 2008   Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

2008 RS:X World Championships January 10–20, 2008   Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

2008 Finn Gold Cup January 23–29, 2008   Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

2008 470 World Championships January 24–30, 2008   Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

2008 Laser World Championships February 7–13, 2008   Terrigal
2008 Yngling World Championships February 10–15, 2008   Miami
2008 Tornado World Championships Feb 25 - Mar 1, 2008   Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

2008 Laser Radial World Championships March 15–20, 2008   Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

2008 Star World Championships April 11–17, 2008   Miami

Men's Windsurfer - RS:X

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Ricardo Santos
Ricardo Santos
Ricardo Alex Costa Santos is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, with partner Zé Marco de Melo....

3 2007 Worlds 2 Przemyslaw Miarczynski
Przemyslaw Miarczynski
Przemysław Miarczyński is a Polish sailor.Miarczyński competed already at top-level when he was a teenager, becoming multiple medal winner in Junior and youth World Championships. During the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney he finished in eighth position on mistral. In 2001 he won a silver medal...

4 2007 Worlds 3 Nick Dempsey
Nick Dempsey
Nick Dempsey is an English windsurfer, who lives in Weymouth. He married Sarah Ayton in October 2008 just 2 months after their gold medal victories. In June 2009, they had a son, Thomas-Flynn....

5 2007 Worlds 4 João Rodrigues
João Rodrigues (sailor)
João Filipe Gaspar Rodrigues, better known as João Rodrigues, is a Portuguese windsurfer from Funchal, Madeira. He started sailing at nine years-old and racing competitively at the age of eleven....

6 2007 Worlds 6 Ivan Pastor
7 2007 Worlds 7 Julien Bontemps
Julien Bontemps
Julien Bontemps is a male sailor from France, who won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is married to Irina Konstantinova.-References:*...

8 2007 Worlds 8 Shahar Zubari
Shahar Zubari
Shahar Zubari is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic bronze medalist, surfing in the "Neil Pryde" RS:X discipline. He was born in Eilat, Israel.-Early career:...

9 2007 Worlds 10 Nikolaos Kaklamanakis
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis
Nikolaos "Nikos" Kaklamanakis is the Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....

10 2007 Worlds 11 Fabian Heidegger
11 2007 Worlds 13 Richard Stauffacher
12 2007 Worlds 15 Tom Ashley
Tom Ashley
Thomas John Mitchell Ashley, ONZM is a sailor from New Zealand, who won the gold medal in the men's sailboard event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, he also won the 2008 RS:X World Championships. He is the Olympic champion and the 2008 World champion...

13 2007 Worlds 18 Casper Bouman
Casper Bouman
Casper Bouman is a Dutch sailor, who lives in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland.Bouman won the gold medal at the 2006 RS:X World Championships to claim the world title. During the event the top-10 sailors were selected to sail the final race, called the medal race...

14 2007 Worlds 19 Ertugrul Icingir
15 2007 Worlds 24 Aron Gadorfalvi
16 2007 Worlds 26 Zachary Plavsic
17 2007 Worlds 29 Jonas Kaeldso
18 2007 Worlds 32 Maksym Obermko
19 2007 Worlds 33 Makoto Tomizawa
2007 Worlds 35 Toni Wilhelm
20 2007 Worlds 39 David Mier Y Teran
David Mier
David Mauricio Mier y Terán Cuevas is a Mexican windsurfer.David began practicing windsurfing at the age of 14, and participated in his first competition at age 15. He has participated at the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics.He finished 17th in the men's sailboard event at the 2008 Olympics...

21 2007 Worlds 43 Ho Chi Ho
Ho Chi Ho
Ho Chi Ho is a sailor from Hong Kong, China who won a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in the mistral heavy class. -References:...

22 2007 Worlds 45 Andreas Cariolou
23 2007 Worlds 47 Mariano Reutemann
24 2007 Worlds 50 Benjamin Barger
25 2007 Worlds 55 Mikalai Zhukavets
2008 Worlds 48 Steve Allen
26 2008 Worlds 49 Ek Boonsawad
27 2008 Worlds 50 Kim Hyung Kwon
28 2008 Worlds 57 Alexey Tokarev
29 2008 Worlds 63 Patrik Pollak
30 2008 Worlds 68 Luka Mratovic
31 2008 Worlds 70 Oka Sulaksana
32 2008 Worlds 71 Henri Kaar
33 2008 Worlds 77 Carlos Flores
34 * 2008 Worlds 87 Santiago Grillo
35 * 2008 Worlds 95 Chang Hao

Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Tom Slingsby
Tom Slingsby
Tom Slingsby is an Australian sailor from the Central Coast of New South Wales.2007 - Won the Laser dinghy world championships....

3 2007 Worlds 2 Andrew Murdoch
4 2007 Worlds 3 Deniss Karpak
5 2007 Worlds 4 Mate Arapov
Mate Arapov
Mate Arapov , is a Croatian sailor who competes in the Laser, Finn and Star classes.A member of JK Mornar sailing club, Arapov sailed for Croatia in the Laser class at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics...

6 2007 Worlds 5 Paul Goodison
Paul Goodison
Paul Martin Goodison MBE is an English sailor.In March 2005, he was ranked 2nd in the world in the Laser, behind Robert Scheidt of Brazil, and ahead of Michael Blackburn of Australia and Mark Mendelblatt of the United States.He won the gold medal in the Men's Laser class at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

7 2007 Worlds 6 Rasmus Myrgren
8 2007 Worlds 7 Matias del Solar
9 2007 Worlds 8 Thomas Le Breton
10 2007 Worlds 10 Gustavo Lima
2007 Worlds 14 Malte Kamrath
11 2007 Worlds 18 Alejandro Foglia
12 2007 Worlds 19 Javier Hernandez
13 2007 Worlds 20 Bruno Fontes
14 2007 Worlds 22 Vasilij Žbogar
Vasilij Žbogar
Vasilij Žbogar , is a Slovenian sailor.Žbogar competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal and in the 2008 Summer Olympic, where he won a silver medal, both of them in laser class...

15 2007 Worlds 23 Anders Nyholm
16 2007 Worlds 24 Roope Suomalainen
17 2007 Worlds 28 Diego Romero
Diego Romero (sailor)
Diego Emilio Romero Paschetta is an Argentine-Italian sailor.He earned a bronze medal in Laser at the 1999 Pan American Games on Lake Winnipeg, behind Brazil's Robert Scheidt and Mark Mendelblatt of the United States.Romero competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics for Argentina...

18 2007 Worlds 29 Andrew Campbell
Andrew Campbell (yachtsman)
Andrew Campbell is an American yachtsman best known for his outstanding performances at the national collegiate level.-Sailing career:...

19 2007 Worlds 32 Mike Leigh
20 2007 Worlds 35 Roelof Bouwmeester
21 2007 Worlds 36 Evangelos Cheimonas
22 2007 Worlds 39 Julio Alsogaray
23 2007 Worlds 41 Andreas Geritzer
Andreas Geritzer
Andreas Geritzer is an Austrian sailor in the Laser class.At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney he finished fifth, four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he won the Silver medal....

24 2007 Worlds 45 Karol Porozynski
25 2007 Worlds 49 Allan Paul
26 2007 Worlds 51 Kemal Muslubas
27 2007 Worlds 52 Martin Trcka
28 2007 Worlds 55 Kristian Ruth
29 2007 Worlds 62 Pavlos Kontides
30 2008 Worlds 42 Ha Jee-Min
31 2008 Worlds 59 Max Bulley
32 2008 Worlds 64 Iijima Yoichi
33 2008 Worlds 69 Kevin Lim
34 2008 Worlds 77 Koh Seng Leong
35 2008 Worlds 80 Jose Ruiz
36 2008 Worlds 85 Raul Aguayo
Raul Aguayo
Raul Aguayo is Dominican sailor. He represented the Dominican Republic in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in the Sailing category. He is the tallest sailor at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games measuring 213 centimeters .-References:...

37 2008 Worlds 86 Igor Lisovenko
38 2008 Worlds 87 Zsomber Berecz
39 2008 Worlds 99 Juan Maegli
40 * 2008 Worlds 104 Marc Schmit
41 * 2008 Worlds 108 Thomas Barrows
42 * 2008 Worlds 117 William Douglas
43 * 2008 Worlds 152 Adil Mohammed

Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Nick Rogers, Joe Glanfield
3 2007 Worlds 2 Sven Coster
Sven Coster
Sven Coster is a Dutch sailor.Coster participates in the 470-class alongside his brother Kalle Coster. Together they became sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In 2007 in Cascais they finished in second position at the World Championship, earning them the silver medal...

, Kalle Coster
Kalle Coster
Kalle Coster is a Dutch sailor.Coster participates in the 470-class alongside his brother Sven Coster. Together they became sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In 2007 in Cascais they finished in second position at the World Championship, earning them the silver medal...

4 2007 Worlds 3 Gideon Kliger
Gideon Kliger
Gideon "Gidi" Kliger is an Israeli Olympic sailor, who is a sailing world championship three-time bronze medalist.-Biography:...

, Udi Gal
Udi Gal
Udi Gal is an Israeli Olympic sailor, who is a sailing world championship three-time bronze medalist.-Biography:Gal is Jewish, and was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He started sailing at 8 years of age, and started racing at 13 years of age. He competes with the club Hapoel Tel Aviv...

5 2007 Worlds 4 Alvaro Marinho, Miguel Nunes
6 2007 Worlds 5 Nathan Wilmot
Nathan Wilmot
Nathan Wilmot is a member of the Australian Sailing team sailor. He and team mate Malcolm Page have won five world titles in the 470 class...

, Malcolm Page
Malcolm Page (sailor)
Malcolm Page is an Australian sailor. He was educated at St. Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney. He and team mate Nathan Wilmot have won five world titles in the 470 class...

7 2007 Worlds 6 Sime Fantela, Igor Marinec
8 2007 Worlds 7 Benjamin Bonnaud, Romain Bonnaud
9 2007 Worlds 9 Onan Barreiros, Aaaron Sarmiento
10 2007 Worlds 10 Stuart McNay, Graham Biehl
11 2007 Worlds 12 Javier Conte
Javier Conte
Javier Alberto Conte is an Argentine sailboat racer.Teaming up with Juan de la Fuente, he raced for Argentina on the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney, Australia finishing in third place and obtaining a bronze medal for his country...

, Juan de la Fuente
Juan de la Fuente
Juan de la Fuente is a sailor from Argentina who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, alongside Javier Conte.-References:*...

12 2007 Worlds 14 Sergei Desukevich, Pavel Logunov
13 2007 Worlds 15 Kan Yamada, Kenichi Nakamura
14 2007 Worlds 18 Johan Molund, Niels Flohr
2007 Worlds 21 Lukas Zellmer, Heiko Seelig
15 2007 Worlds 25 Karlo Hmeljak, Mitja Nevecny
16 2007 Worlds 26 Panagiotis Kampouridis, Gerasimos Orologas
17 2007 Worlds 28 Zandona Gabrio, Andrea Trani
18 2007 Worlds 29 Stephane Locas, Oliver Bone
19 2007 Worlds 30 Kim Chang-Ju, Kim Ji-Hoon
20 2007 Worlds 31 Roy Tay, Peiming Chung
21 2007 Worlds 40 Gerald Owens, Philip Lawton
22 2008 Worlds 11 Carl Evans, Peter Burling
Peter Burling (sailor)
Pete Burling is a New Zealand Olympic sailor who, along with his partner Carl Evans, was the youngest sailor to represent New Zealand at an Olympic Games.- References :*http://www.zeus-sport.com/Olympic/Athletes/AthleteProfile.aspx?Print=&ContactID=28330...

23 2008 Worlds 17 Mikhail Sheremetiev, Maxim Sheremetiev
24 2008 Worlds 20 Patryck Piasecki, Kacper Zieminski
25 2008 Worlds 29 Fabio Pillar, Samuel Albrecht
26 2008 Worlds 39 Tobias Etter, Felix Steiger
27 2008 Worlds 46 Matthias Schmid, Florian Reichstaedter
28 2008 Worlds 55 Deniz Cinar, Ates Cinar
29 2008 Worlds 58 Joonas Lindgren, Niko Helander

Men's Keelboat - Star

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Robert Scheidt
Robert Scheidt
Robert Scheidt is a renowned Brazilian sailor, having won two gold medals and two silver medals from four Olympic Games...

, Bruno Prada
Bruno Prada
Bruno Prada is a Brazilian sailor.In June 2006, he and Brazilian Robert Scheidt won the silver medal in the two-person racing keelboat Star Class at the 2006 Kiel Week in Germany, behind American Mark Mendelblatt and crewman Mark Strube...

3 2007 Worlds 2 Xavier Rohart
Xavier Rohart
Xavier Rohart is a French sailor. He won a bronze medal in the Star class with Pascal Rambeau at the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:* at sports-reference.com...

, Pascal Rambeau
Pascal Rambeau
Pascal Rambeau is a French sailor. He won a bronze medal in the Star class with Xavier Rohart at the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:* at sports-reference.com...

4 2007 Worlds 3 Iain Percy
Iain Percy
Iain Bryden Percy OBE is a British sailor and double Olympic champion.-Sailing competitions:Percy competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he won a gold medal in the Finn class...

, Andrew Simpson
Andrew Simpson (sailor)
Andrew James Simpson MBE , nicknamed Bart Simpson, is a British sailor. He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, as crew for skipper Iain Percy in the Star class...

5 2007 Worlds 4 Hamish Pepper, Carl Williams
6 2007 Worlds 5 Diego Negri, Luigi Viale
7 2007 Worlds 6 Mateusz Kusznierewicz
Mateusz Kusznierewicz
Mateusz Kusznierewicz is a Polish sailor, specialising in the Finn and Star classes.His first sailing success came in 1985, where he won the Puchar Spójni at the Zalew Zegrzyński in Warsaw...

, Dominik Zycki
8 2007 Worlds 7 Marc Pickel, Ingo Borkowski
Ingo Borkowski
Ingo Borkowski is a German sailor. He won a silver medal in the Soling class with Jochen Schümann and Gunnar Bahr at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-References:* at sports-reference.com...

9 2007 Worlds 8 Fredrik Lööf
Fredrik Lööf
Fredrik Lööf Fredrik Lööf Fredrik Lööf (born 13 December 1969 in Kristinehamn, Sweden is a Swedish professional sailor who has participated in five Summer Olympics, winning two bronze medals...

, Anders Ekström
Anders Ekström
Anders Ekström is a Swedish sailor who has participated in two Summer Olympics. He and Fredrik Lööf sailed together in the Star class, winning the Star world championship, the Star European championship, finishing 14th at Athens in 2004, and winning the bronze medal at Beijing in 2008.-External...

10 2007 Worlds 9 Iain Murray
Iain Murray (sailor)
Iain Murray is an Australia sailor. He is most noted for his appearances in 12-Metre Class yachts in the 1983 and 1987 America's Cup regattas, but is also a champion 18ft Skiff skipper. The modern version of the 18ft Skiff was designed by Murray...

, Andrew Palfrey
11 2007 Worlds 10 Afonso Domingos, Bernardo Santos
12 2007 Worlds 11 Mark Reynolds
Mark Reynolds (sailor)
Mark Reynolds is an American Star class sailor and Olympic champion. He has sailed Stars since age four, training with his father who was the 1971 World Champion ....

, Hal Haenel
13 2008 Worlds 4 Flavio Marazzi, Enrico De Maria
14 2008 Worlds 12 Marin Lovrovic, Sinsa Mikulicic
15 2008 Worlds 14 Max Treacy, Anthony Shanks
16 2008 Worlds 16 Hans Spitzauer, Christian Nehammer

Women's Windsurfer - RS:X

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Zofia Klepacka
3 2007 Worlds 2 Barbara Kendall
Barbara Kendall
Barbara Kendall, MBE is a boardsailor from New Zealand. Kendall was raised at Bucklands Beach and attended Macleans College...

4 2007 Worlds 3 Jessica Crisp
Jessica Crisp
Jessica Crisp is an Australian windsurfer currently living in Sydney, Australia. She represented Australia at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics when windsurfing was a demonstration sport. She then represented Australia at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympic Games.- References :*...

5 2007 Worlds 4 Marina Alabau
6 2007 Worlds 5 Alessandra Sensini
Alessandra Sensini
Alessandra Sensini is an Italian windsurfer. She is a 4-time Olympian, winning a gold medal and two additional bronze medals. She also won 3 gold and 2 silver medals at World Championships, as well as 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at European Championships...

7 2007 Worlds 6 Olha Maslivets
8 2007 Worlds 7 Charline Picon
2007 Worlds 9 Romy Kinzl
9 2007 Worlds 12 Bryony Shaw
Bryony Shaw
Bryony Elisabeth Shaw is a British windsurfer.-Early life:She first began windsurfing in the south of France in 1992. She attended Cheney Upper School on Cheney Lane near Headington in Oxford gaining A levels in Art, Maths and Biology, where her father had been teaching Business Studies for PhD at...

10 2007 Worlds 18 Chan Wai Man
11 2007 Worlds 21 Athena Anton Frey
12 2007 Worlds 27 Jannicke Staalstrom
13 2007 Worlds 32 Tuuli Petaja
14 2007 Worlds 33 Maayan Davidovich
Maayan Davidovich
-Biography:Davidovich is Jewish, and was her hometown is Herzliya, Israel. She competes with the club Hapoel Tel Aviv.She started sailing at the age of five, and made her international competitive debut in the 1999 Optimist European Championships, in Greece....

15 2007 Worlds 34 Yuki Sunaga
16 2007 Worlds 35 Irina Konstantinova-Bontem
2007 Worlds 38 Sigrid Rondelez
17 2007 Worlds 40 Nikola Girke
18 2007 Worlds 43 Patricia Freitas
19 2007 Worlds 45 Bettina Honore
20 2008 Worlds 39 Napalai Tansai
21 2008 Worlds 50 Demita Vega de Lille
22 2008 Worlds 53 Diana Detre
23 2008 Worlds 58 Florencia Gutierrez
24 2008 Worlds 59 Tatiana Bazyuk
25 2008 Worlds 60 Nancy Rios
26 2008 Worlds 61 Gavriella Chadjidamianou
27 * 2008 Worlds 69 Sedef Koktenturk

Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Tatiana Drozdovskaya
3 2007 Worlds 2 Sari Multala
Sari Multala
-Background:Sari Multala is a professional sailor who started sailing at the age 8 in a 24ft keelboat however she soon started racing the Optimist and soon started on the youth program of the Marjaniemen Purjehtijat Sailing Club...

4 2007 Worlds 3 Petra Niemann
5 2007 Worlds 4 Katarzyna Szotynska
6 2007 Worlds 5 Anna Tunnicliffe
Anna Tunnicliffe
Anna Tunnicliffe is a sailor, most notably of the women's olympic single-handed . As a member of the 2008 US Olympic team she won a gold medal in the Women's Laser Radial class. In 2008, she also placed second at the women's world championship of the snipe class held in Roquetas de Mar...

7 2007 Worlds 6 Tania Elias Calles Wolf
8 2007 Worlds 7 Nufar Edelman
Nufar Edelman
Nufar Edelman is an Israeli Olympic sailor. She competes in the Laser Radial, a class of small singlehanded sailing dinghy.-Biography:Edelman is Jewish, and was born in Rosh HaNikra, Israel...

9 2007 Worlds 8 Jo Aleh
10 2007 Worlds 10 Charlotte Dobson
11 2007 Worlds 11 Sophie de Turckheim
12 2007 Worlds 12 Krystal Weir
13 2007 Worlds 13 Evi van Acker
Evi Van Acker
Evi Van Acker is a professional sailor who started sailing at the age 7 in an Optimist and soon started on the youth program of the Royal Belgian Sailing Club...

14 2007 Worlds 14 Larissa Nevierov
15 2007 Worlds 18 Keamia Rasa
2007 Worlds 20 Gea Jutjens
16 2007 Worlds 21 Gintare Volungeviciute
17 2007 Worlds 24 Nathalie Brugger
18 2007 Worlds 27 Elin Maria Samdal
19 2007 Worlds 34 Cecilia Carranza Saroli
20 2008 Worlds 8 Karin Soderstrom
21 2008 Worlds 19 Elizabeth Yin
22 2008 Worlds 21 Susana Romero Steensma
23 2008 Worlds 25 Eftychia Mantzaraki
24 2008 Worlds 27 Mateja Petronijevic
25 2008 Worlds 29 Ciara Peelo
26 * 2008 Worlds 30 Anastasia Chernova
27 * 2008 Worlds 39 Florencia Cerutti
28 * 2008 Worlds 58 Paloma Schmidt

Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Marcelien De Koning
Marcelien de Koning
Marcelien de Koning is a Dutch sailor. She is a three-time World Champion in the 470-class.De Koning sails since 1990 and since 2001 she participates in the 470-class alongside Lobke Berkhout. Together they became World Champion in 2005 in San Francisco. This performance earned them the title of...

, Lobke Berkhout
Lobke Berkhout
Lobke Berkhout is a Dutch sailor. She is a five-time World Champion in the 470-class.Berkhout sails since 1990 and since 2001 she participates in the 470-class alongside Marcelien de Koning. Together they became World Champion in 2005 in San Francisco. This performance earned them the title of...

3 2007 Worlds 2 Ingrid Petitjean, Nadege Douroux
4 2007 Worlds 3 Christina Bassadone, Saskia Clark
5 2007 Worlds 4 Ai Kondo, Naoko Kamata
6 2007 Worlds 5 Therese Torgersson
Therese Torgersson
Therese Torgersson is a Swedish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. She won a bronze medal in the 470 class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, together with Vendela Zachrisson.-References:...

, Vendela Zachreisson
7 2007 Worlds 6 Giulia Conti, Giovanna Micol
8 2007 Worlds 7 Fernanda Oliveira
Fernanda Oliveira
Fernanda Oliveira is a Brazilian sailor. She won a bronze medal in 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Oliveira also competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and 2004 Olympics in Athina.- References :...

, Isabel Swan
Isabel Swan
Isabel Marques Swan is a Brazilian sailor. She won a bronze medal in 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-See also:*...

9 2007 Worlds 8 Nike Kornecki, Vered Bouskila
10 2007 Worlds 10 Erin Maxwell, Isabelle Kinsolving
11 2007 Worlds 12 Vesna Dekleva Paoli, Klara Maucec
12 2007 Worlds 14 Stefanie Rothweiler, Vivien Kussatz
2007 Worlds 15 Melinda Henshaw
Melinda Henshaw
Melinda Henshaw is a New Zealand yachtswoman.She competed for New Zealand at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, with Jenny Egnot in the Women's Double Handed Dinghy class. They finished in 11th place.- References :**...

, Olivia Powrie
13 2007 Worlds 18 Elise Rechichi
Elise Rechichi
Elise Rechichi OAM is an Australian sailor from Perth, Western Australia. Rechichi and crewmate Tessa Parkinson represented Australia in the 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao, China, winning the Gold Medal.- References :...

, Tessa Parkinson
Tessa Parkinson
Tessa Parkinson OAM is an Australian sailor from Perth, Western Australia. Parkinson and skipper Elise Rechichi represented Australia in the 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao, China, winning the Gold Medal....

14 2008 Worlds 6 Sylvia Vogl, Carolina Flatscher
15 2008 Worlds 9 Sesto Fernanda, Monsegur Consuela
16 2008 Worlds 14 Natalia Via-Dufresne, Laia Tutzo
17 2008 Worlds 21 Emmanuelle Rol, Anne-Sophie Thilo
18 2008 Worlds 22 Lenka Smidova, Lenka Mrzilkova
19 * 2008 Worlds 39 Toh Liying, Deborah Ong Hui Min

Women's Keelboat - Yngling

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Sarah Ayton
Sarah Ayton
Sarah Lianne Ayton Dempsey OBE is an English professional sailor.She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, together with Shirley Robertson and Sarah Webb, and another gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing,...

, Sarah Webb
Sarah Webb
Sarah Kathleen Webb Gosling OBE is a British professional sailor and two-time Olympic gold medalist.-Sailing career:...

, Pippa Wilson
Pippa Wilson
Philippa Claire Wilson MBE is an English professional sailor.She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton....

3 2007 Worlds 2 Sally Barkow, Carrie Howe, Deborah Capozzi
4 2007 Worlds 4 Mandy Mulder
Mandy Mulder
Mandy Mulder is a Dutch sailor.Mulder started sailing in 1995 and competes in international level since 2001 where she started in the Optimist class. At the European Championship in Gran Canaria she finished on a 10th position. She took part in the 2002 Laser 4.7 World Junior Championship where...

, Annemieke Bes
Annemieke Bes
Annemieke Marileen Bes is a Dutch sailor.Bes started sailing in 1990 and competed at Olympic international level since 1999 where she started in the Europe class...

, Flortje Hendriksen
5 2007 Worlds 5 Ekaterina Skudina, Diana Krutskikh, Natalia Ivanova
2007 Worlds 6 Sharon Ferris
Sharon Ferris
Sharon Marie Ferris is an Olympic sailor for New Zealand.Ferris competed at the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...

, Raynor Smeal, Shandy Buckley
6 2007 Worlds 7 Monica Azon, Sandra Azón
Sandra Azon
Sandra Azón is a Spanish sailor, who won a silver medal in the 470 class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Natalia Vía Dufresne....

, Graciela Pisonero
7 2007 Worlds 8 Ulrike Schuemann, Julia Bleck, Ute Höpfner
8 2007 Worlds 10 Nicky Bethwaite, Karyn Gojnich, Angela Farrell
Angela Farrell
Angela Farrell is an Irish singer who performed on Eurovision in 1971 with the song "One Day Love". With 19 points, she came in 11th position.- Singles :* One day love — #4 Irish Singles Chart...

9 2007 Worlds 11 Silja Lehtinen, Maria Klemetz, Livia Varesmaa
10 2007 Worlds 12 Dominique Provoyeur, Kim Rew, Penny Lynn
11 2008 Worlds 6 Anne-Claire Le Berre, Marion Deplanque, Alice Ponsar
12 2008 Worlds 10 Siren Sundby
Siren Sundby
Siren Sundby is a former Norwegian sailor.She won an Olympic gold medal in the Europe-class in the 2004 Summer Olympics...

, Lise Fredriksen, Alexandra Koefoed
13 2008 Worlds 14 Sofia Bekatorou
Sofia Bekatorou
Sofia Bekatorou , is a Greek sailing champion.She has participated in over 470 main class events including 2004 Summer Olympics sailing competition, where she won gold medal in the women's double-handed dinghy event in the 470 with her pair Emilia Tsoulfa...

, Sofia Papadopoulou
Sofia Papadopoulou
Sofia Papadopoulou is a Greek sailor. She won the bronze medal in the women's yngling class with Sofia Bekatorou and Virginia Kravarioti at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China.-References:...

, Christina Charamountani
14 2008 Worlds 19 Chiara Calligaris, Francesca Scognamillo, Giulia Pignolo
15 * 2008 Worlds 23 Jennifer Provan, Martha Henderson, Katie Abbott

Open Skiff - 49er

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Stevie Morrison
Stevie Morrison
Stephen James Morrison is a successful British Yachtsman who has enjoyed success in a classes from the International Cadet to the 49er. He is the son of Phil Morrison, the British Yacht Designer....

, Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes (sailor)
Ben Christopher Rhodes is a British sailor.Together with team mate Stevie Morrison Rhodes became the 2007 World Champion in the 49er boat...

3 2007 Worlds 2 Nico Luca Ma Della Karth, Nicholas Leopold Resch
4 2007 Worlds 3 Nathan Outteridge
Nathan Outteridge
Nathan Outteridge is an Australian sailor.Together with team mate Ben Austin Outteridge became the 2008 World Champion in the 49er boat by finishing in front of Britons Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes. In 2007 they won the bronze medal in the same event at the World Championships in Cascais,...

, Ben Austin
Ben Austin (sailor)
Ben Austin is an Australian sailor.Together with team mate Nathan Outteridge Austin became the 2008 World Champion in the 49er boat by finishing in front of Britons Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes. In 2007 they won the bronze medal in the same event at the World Championships in Cascais,...

5 2007 Worlds 4 Piero Sibello, Gianfranco Sibello
6 2007 Worlds 5 Morgan Larson, Pete Spaulding
7 2007 Worlds 6 Federico Alonso, Arturo Alonso
Arturo Alonso
Arturo Alonso is a Spanish human rights activist.He was the first man in joint custody in Spain.Citation: "Court of Justice Number 10 of Family in Granada- Spain - 9 de Sep, 2003 " He started a crusade against judges and politicians to achieve equality of rights between men and women after...

8 2007 Worlds 7 Morgan Lagraviere, Stephane Christidis
9 2007 Worlds 8 Jonas Warre, Martin Kirketep
10 2007 Worlds 11 Jan Peter Peckolt, Hannes Peckolt
Hannes Peckolt
Hannes Peckolt is a German sailor. He won a bronze medal in 49er class at the 2008 Summer Olympics.- References :...

11 2007 Worlds 14 Rodion Luka
Rodion Luka
Rodion Luka is a Ukrainian sailor.-Career highlights:World ChampionshipsRodion Luka is a Ukrainian sailor.-Career highlights:World Championships...

, Georghy Leonchuk
12 2007 Worlds 17 Marcin Czajkowski, Krzysztof Kierkowski
13 2007 Worlds 18 Jorge Lima, Francisco Andrade
14 2007 Worlds 19 Gordon Cook, Ben Remoker
15 2008 Worlds 11 André Fonseca, Rodrigo Duarte
16 2008 Worlds 17 Christopher Gundersen
Christopher Gundersen
Christopher Gundersen is a Norwegian sailor and world champion.He received a gold medal in the Europe class at the 2004 world championships...

, Frode Bovim
Frode Bovim
Frode Bovim is a Norwegian sailor.He received a silver medal in the 49er class at the 2003 world championships, together with Christoffer Sundby. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Christoffer Sundby, where they finished 4th in the 49er class...

17 2008 Worlds 25 Jonas Lindberg, Kalle Torlén
18 2008 Worlds 27 Akira Ishibashi, Yukio Makino
19 2008 Worlds 29 Pavle Kostov, Petar Cupac

Open Heavyweight Dinghy - Finn

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Rafael Trujillo
3 2007 Worlds 2 Pieter Jan Postma
Pieter Jan Postma
Pieter Jan Postma is a Dutch sailor.The first seventeen years of his life Postma spends in Terkaple, a tiny village in Friesland. He has a four year older sister and a two year younger sister...

4 2007 Worlds 3 Gasper Vincec
5 2007 Worlds 4 Jonas Hogh-Christensen
6 2007 Worlds 5 Aimilios Papathanasiou
Aimilios Papathanasiou
Aimilios Papathanasiou is a Greek sailor. He competed in the Finn class at the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. His best Olympic result is fifth place in Athens in 2004.-References:...

7 2007 Worlds 6 Ed Wright
8 2007 Worlds 7 Chris Cook
Chris Cook (sailor)
Christopher "Chris" Cook is a Canadian sailor from Toronto who competes in the Finn class.In 2005, Cook was a bronze medal at the Gold Cup. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he finished in fifth place.-References:...

9 2007 Worlds 8 Daniel Birgmark
Daniel Birgmark
Daniel Birgmark is a sailor representing Sweden at Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Finn class.- External links :*...

10 2007 Worlds 9 Marin Misura
11 2007 Worlds 10 Anthony Nossiter
Anthony Nossiter
Anthony Nossiter is an Australian sailor and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. His best Olympic result is a sixth place in the Finn class in Athens in 2004.-References:...

12 2007 Worlds 12 Tapio Nirkko
13 2007 Worlds 13 Ismael Bruno
14 2007 Worlds 16 Dan Slater
15 2007 Worlds 17 Waclaw Szukiel
16 2007 Worlds 19 Zachary Railey
17 2007 Worlds 20 Michael Maier
18 2007 Worlds 23 João Signori
19 2007 Worlds 25 Tim Goodbody
Tim Goodbody
Tim Goodbody is an Irish sailor. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he placed 21st in the Finn class.-References:...

20 2007 Worlds 26 Peer Mosberg
21 2008 Worlds 19 Giorgio Poggi
22 2008 Worlds 25 Eduard Skornyakov
Eduard Skornyakov
Eduard Skornyakov is a Russian sailor. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he placed 17th in the Finn class.-References:...

23 2008 Worlds 29 Haris Papadopoulos
2008 Worlds 32 Florian Raudaschl
2008 Worlds 33 Matthias Bohn
24 2008 Worlds 39 Ali Kemal Tufekci
25 * 2008 Worlds 52 Nitin Mongia
26 * 2008 Worlds 53 Johnny Bilbao

Open Multihull - Tornado

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Sailor
1 Host Country
2 2007 Worlds 1 Fernando Echavarri
Fernando Echavarri
Fernando Echavarri Erasun is a professional yachtsman in the Olympic Tornado Class. Teaming with crew Antón Paz Blanco, he became Spanish, European, World Champion, ISAF Sailor of the year in 2005, Olympic Gold Medalist at the Beijing Games held in Qingdao.- Origins :Born and raised in Santander,...

, Anton Paz
3 2007 Worlds 2 Carolijn Brouwer
Carolijn Brouwer
Carolijn Mariëlle Brouwer is a professional sailorShe won the International Sailing Federation highest award in 1998 the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards....

, Sébastien Godefroid
Sébastien Godefroid
Sébastien Godefroid is a Belgian sailor.He won the silver medal in sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, but has not won another medal.-References:...

4 2007 Worlds 3 Mitch Booth
Mitch Booth
Mitch Booth is a Dutch sailor. He is a two time Olympic medalist and ten time World Champion in the Tornado, Hobie, A class and Formula 18 classes....

, Pim Nieuwenhuis
Pim Nieuwenhuis
Pim Nieuwenhuis is a Dutch sailor.Nieuwenhuis started in the optimist dinghy where he picked up the first racing skills. Soon he moved on to Olympic classes and he started in the Tornado class in 1994. He was recruited by coach Roy Heiner as a talent for his big boat campaigns...

5 2007 Worlds 4 Darren Bundock
Darren Bundock
Darren Bundock is an Australian sailor from Gosford, New South Wales. He won a silver medal in the Tornado class at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Bundock and current crewmate Glenn Ashby are the 2007 world champions in the Tornado class and ranked number one in the event going into the 2008...

, Glenn Ashby
Glenn Ashby
Glenn Ashby is an Australian sailor from Bendigo, Victoria. He and skipper Darren Bundock are the 2007 world champions in the Tornado class and ranked number one in the event going into the 2008 Summer Olympics. However, they were beaten by the Spanish team and won silver. He has also won 8...

6 2007 Worlds 5 Leigh McMillan, WIll Howden
7 2007 Worlds 6 Vavier Revil, Christophe Espagnon
8 2007 Worlds 7 Iordanis Paschalidis, Konstantinos Trigonis
9 2007 Worlds 10 John Lovell, Charlie Ogletree
Charlie Ogletree
Charles S. "Charlie" Ogletree is an American competitive sailor, four-time Olympian, and Olympic silver medalist.-Career:...

10 2007 Worlds 11 Francesco Marcolini, Edoardo Bianchi
11 2007 Worlds 13 Johannes Polgar, Florian Spalteholz
12 2007 Worlds 14 Santiago Raú Lange, Carlos Espínola
Carlos Espínola (sailor)
Carlos Mauricio Espínola is an Argentine windsurfer.Nicknamed Camau, Espínola started training at the Club Náutico de La Totora in his home province, to obtain his first achievement of importance, a silver medal, during the Pan American Games held in 1991 in La Habana...

13 2008 Worlds 2 Oskar Johansson
Oskar Johansson
Oskar Johansson is a Canadian world class sailor from Toronto. He competed in Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and finished in 15th place...

, Kevin Stittle
Kevin Stittle
Kevin Stittle is a Canadian sailor from Orangeville, Ontario.Stittle began sailing at the age of 11.At the 2008 World Championships, he won a silver medal in the tornado class....

14 2008 Worlds 11 Roman Hagara
Roman Hagara
Roman Hagara is an Austrian sailor in the Tornado class.Hagara, and his colleague Hans-Peter Steinacher won the Gold medal in the Tornado class at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and successfully defended their title at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.Hagara was the Flagbearer for the...

, Hans Peter Steinacher
2008 Worlds 12 Aaron McIntosh
Aaron McIntosh
Aaron McIntosh is a sailor from New Zealand who won a Bronze medal at 2000 in Sydney. He had previously just missed out on a medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta finishing a close fourth...

, Mark Kennedy
15 2008 Worlds 16 Pavlo Kalynchev, Andrey Shaufranyuk


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