World championships in sailing

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World championships in sailing are World championships organised or sanctioned by World Sailing (formerly the International Sailing Federation) as a spot sailing has the largest number of World Championships due to the divercity of equipment and discplines.

Video World championships in sailing

Championships

The number of titles is due to the diversity of equipment. Sanctioned World Championships fall into the following categories:

World Sailing - Initiated Championships

World Sailing - Sanctioned World Championships

• ISAF Open Match Racing World Championship (Presently awarded to the overall winner of the World Match Racing Tour originally an world sailing event)
• Nations Cup
• Offshore Racing Congress Rating System
  • Currently ORCi
  • former ORC Worlds include the IMS, IMS 500, IMS 670, 1/4 TON, 1/2 TON and 1 TON ClassWorld Championships
• International Radio Sailing Association Class World Championships
  • IRSA / 10 Rater World Championship
  • IRSA / Radio A Class World Championship
  • IRSA / Marblehead World Championships
  • IRSA / One Metre World Championships
• Extreme 40 World Championship (Authorised Once)
• International Association for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) (from 1990s to 2014)
• Blind Sailing World Championship originally recognised through IFDS
• Blind Match Racing World Championship originally recognised through IFDS
• Other Disabled Sailng World Championships (Such as none technical)
• PWA World Championships also recognised as a special event

World Sailing - Class World Championships

Classes that are members of World Sailing are entitled to hold World Championships if they are spread into a minimum of two continents and have certain number of nations and continents take part in two of the last three championships (the number of nations depend of the size of the equipment).

Maps World championships in sailing

Multiple World champions

This is not a complete list but the following are known to have won eight or more World Championship titles.

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See also

• List of World Championships medalists in sailing
• World Sailing
• European Sailing Championships

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Notes

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References

src: www.sailing.org

External links

• ISAF Official site

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