Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification
Qualification rules
A nation may earn up to 1 boat in each of the 11 Sailing events.
Summary
Qualification Timeline
Event |
Date |
Location |
2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships |
Jun 28 - Jul 13, 2007 |
Cascais |
2008 49er World Championships |
January 2–9, 2008 |
Sydney |
2008 RS:X World Championships |
January 10–20, 2008 |
Auckland |
2008 Finn Gold Cup |
January 23–29, 2008 |
Melbourne |
2008 470 World Championships |
January 24–30, 2008 |
Melbourne |
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 |
2008 Laser Radial World Championships |
March 15–20, 2008 |
Auckland |
2008 Star World Championships |
April 11–17, 2008 |
Miami |
Men's Windsurfer - RS:X
Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser
Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470
# | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
1 | China | Host Country | | |
2 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Nick Rogers, Joe Glanfield |
3 | Netherlands | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Sven Coster, Kalle Coster |
4 | Israel | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Gideon Kliger, Udi Gal |
5 | Portugal | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Alvaro Marinho, Miguel Nunes |
6 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Nathan Wilmot, Malcolm Page |
7 | Croatia | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Sime Fantela, Igor Marinec |
8 | France | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Benjamin Bonnaud, Romain Bonnaud |
9 | Spain | 2007 Worlds | 9 | Onan Barreiros, Aaaron Sarmiento |
10 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 10 | Stuart McNay, Graham Biehl |
11 | Argentina | 2007 Worlds | 12 | Javier Conte, Juan de la Fuente |
12 | Belarus | 2007 Worlds | 14 | Sergei Desukevich, Pavel Logunov |
13 | Japan | 2007 Worlds | 15 | Kan Yamada, Kenichi Nakamura |
14 | Sweden | 2007 Worlds | 18 | Johan Molund, Niels Flohr |
— | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 21 | Lukas Zellmer, Heiko Seelig |
15 | Slovenia | 2007 Worlds | 25 | Karlo Hmeljak, Mitja Nevecny |
16 | Greece | 2007 Worlds | 26 | Panagiotis Kampouridis, Gerasimos Orologas |
17 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 28 | Gabrio Zandonà, Andrea Trani |
18 | Canada | 2007 Worlds | 29 | Stephane Locas, Oliver Bone |
19 | South Korea | 2007 Worlds | 30 | Kim Chang-Ju, Kim Ji-Hoon |
20 | Singapore | 2007 Worlds | 31 | Roy Tay, Peiming Chung |
21 | Ireland | 2007 Worlds | 40 | Gerald Owens, Philip Lawton |
22 | New Zealand | 2008 Worlds | 11 | Carl Evans, Peter Burling |
23 | Russia | 2008 Worlds | 17 | Mikhail Sheremetiev, Maxim Sheremetiev |
24 | Poland | 2008 Worlds | 20 | Patryck Piasecki, Kacper Zieminski |
25 | Brazil | 2008 Worlds | 29 | Fabio Pillar, Samuel Albrecht |
26 | Switzerland | 2008 Worlds | 39 | Tobias Etter, Felix Steiger |
27 | Austria | 2008 Worlds | 46 | Matthias Schmid, Florian Reichstaedter |
28 | Turkey | 2008 Worlds | 55 | Deniz Cinar, Ates Cinar |
29 | Finland | 2008 Worlds | 58 | Joonas Lindgren, Niko Helander |
Men's Keelboat - Star
# | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
1 | China | Host Country | | |
2 | Brazil | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Robert Scheidt, Bruno Prada |
3 | France | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Xavier Rohart, Pascal Rambeau |
4 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson |
5 | New Zealand | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Hamish Pepper, Carl Williams |
6 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Diego Negri, Luigi Viale |
7 | Poland | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Dominik Zycki |
8 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Marc Pickel, Ingo Borkowski |
9 | Sweden | 2007 Worlds | 8 | Fredrik Lööf, Anders Ekström |
10 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 9 | Iain Murray, Andrew Palfrey |
11 | Portugal | 2007 Worlds | 10 | Afonso Domingos, Bernardo Santos |
12 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 11 | Mark Reynolds, Hal Haenel |
13 | Switzerland | 2008 Worlds | 4 | Flavio Marazzi, Enrico De Maria |
14 | Croatia | 2008 Worlds | 12 | Marin Lovrovic, Sinsa Mikulicic |
15 | Ireland | 2008 Worlds | 14 | Max Treacy, Anthony Shanks |
16 | Austria | 2008 Worlds | 16 | Hans Spitzauer, Christian Nehammer |
Women's Windsurfer - RS:X
Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial
Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470
# | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
1 | China | Host Country | | |
2 | Netherlands | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Marcelien De Koning, Lobke Berkhout |
3 | France | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Ingrid Petitjean, Nadege Douroux |
4 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Christina Bassadone, Saskia Clark |
5 | Japan | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Ai Kondo, Naoko Kamata |
6 | Sweden | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Therese Torgersson, Vendela Zachrisson |
7 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Giulia Conti, Giovanna Micol |
8 | Brazil | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Fernanda Oliveira, Isabel Swan |
9 | Israel | 2007 Worlds | 8 | Nike Kornecki, Vered Buskila |
10 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 10 | Erin Maxwell, Isabelle Kinsolving |
11 | Slovenia | 2007 Worlds | 12 | Vesna Dekleva Paoli, Klara Maucec |
12 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 14 | Stefanie Rothweiler, Vivien Kussatz |
— | New Zealand | 2007 Worlds | 15 | Melinda Henshaw, Polly Powrie |
13 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 18 | Elise Rechichi, Tessa Parkinson |
14 | Austria | 2008 Worlds | 6 | Sylvia Vogl, Carolina Flatscher |
15 | Argentina | 2008 Worlds | 9 | Sesto Fernanda, Monsegur Consuela |
16 | Spain | 2008 Worlds | 14 | Natalia Via-Dufresne, Laia Tutzo |
17 | Switzerland | 2008 Worlds | 21 | Emmanuelle Rol, Anne-Sophie Thilo |
18 | Czech Republic | 2008 Worlds | 22 | Lenka Smidova, Lenka Mrzilkova |
19 | Singapore* | 2008 Worlds | 39 | Toh Liying, Deborah Ong Hui Min |
Women's Keelboat - Yngling
# | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
1 | China | Host Country | | |
2 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb, Pippa Wilson |
3 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Sally Barkow, Carrie Howe, Deborah Capozzi |
4 | Netherlands | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Mandy Mulder, Annemieke Bes, Flortje Hendriksen |
5 | Russia | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Ekaterina Skudina, Diana Krutskikh, Natalia Ivanova |
— | New Zealand | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Sharon Ferris, Raynor Smeal, Shandy Buckley |
6 | Spain | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Monica Azon, Sandra Azón, Graciela Pisonero |
7 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 8 | Ulrike Schuemann, Julia Bleck, Ute Höpfner |
8 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 10 | Nicky Bethwaite, Karyn Gojnich, Angela Farrell |
9 | Finland | 2007 Worlds | 11 | Silja Lehtinen, Maria Klemetz, Livia Varesmaa |
10 | South Africa | 2007 Worlds | 12 | Dominique Provoyeur, Kim Rew, Penny Lynn |
11 | France | 2008 Worlds | 6 | Anne-Claire Le Berre, Marion Deplanque, Alice Ponsar |
12 | Norway | 2008 Worlds | 10 | Siren Sundby, Lise Fredriksen, Alexandra Koefoed |
13 | Greece | 2008 Worlds | 14 | Sofia Bekatorou, Sofia Papadopoulou, Christina Charamountani |
14 | Italy | 2008 Worlds | 19 | Chiara Calligaris, Francesca Scognamillo, Giulia Pignolo |
15 | Canada* | 2008 Worlds | 23 | Jennifer Provan, Martha Henderson, Katie Abbott |
Open Skiff - 49er
# | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
1 | China | Host Country | | |
2 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Stevie Morrison, Ben Rhodes |
3 | Austria | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Nico Luca Ma Della Karth, Nicholas Leopold Resch |
4 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Nathan Outteridge, Ben Austin |
5 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Piero Sibello, Gianfranco Sibello |
6 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Morgan Larson, Pete Spaulding |
7 | Spain | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Federico Alonso, Arturo Alonso |
8 | France | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Morgan Lagraviere, Stephane Christidis |
9 | Denmark | 2007 Worlds | 8 | Jonas Warre, Martin Kirketep |
10 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 11 | Jan Peter Peckolt, Hannes Peckolt |
11 | Ukraine | 2007 Worlds | 14 | Rodion Luka, Georghy Leonchuk |
12 | Poland | 2007 Worlds | 17 | Marcin Czajkowski, Krzysztof Kierkowski |
13 | Portugal | 2007 Worlds | 18 | Jorge Lima, Francisco Andrade |
14 | Canada | 2007 Worlds | 19 | Gordon Cook, Ben Remoker |
15 | Brazil | 2008 Worlds | 11 | André Fonseca, Rodrigo Duarte |
16 | Norway | 2008 Worlds | 17 | Christopher Gundersen, Frode Bovim |
17 | Sweden | 2008 Worlds | 25 | Jonas Lindberg, Kalle Torlén |
18 | Japan | 2008 Worlds | 27 | Akira Ishibashi, Yukio Makino |
19 | Croatia | 2008 Worlds | 29 | Pavle Kostov, Petar Cupac |
Open Heavyweight Dinghy - Finn
Open Multihull - Tornado
# | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
1 | China | Host Country | | |
2 | Spain | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Fernando Echavarri, Anton Paz |
3 | Belgium | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Carolijn Brouwer, Sébastien Godefroid |
4 | Netherlands | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Mitch Booth, Pim Nieuwenhuis |
5 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Darren Bundock, Glenn Ashby |
6 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Leigh McMillan, WIll Howden |
7 | France | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Vavier Revil, Christophe Espagnon |
8 | Greece | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Iordanis Paschalidis, Konstantinos Trigonis |
9 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 10 | John Lovell, Charlie Ogletree |
10 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 11 | Francesco Marcolini, Edoardo Bianchi |
11 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 13 | Johannes Polgar, Florian Spalteholz |
12 | Argentina | 2007 Worlds | 14 | Santiago Raú Lange, Carlos Espínola |
13 | Canada | 2008 Worlds | 2 | Oskar Johansson, Kevin Stittle |
14 | Austria | 2008 Worlds | 11 | Roman Hagara, Hans Peter Steinacher |
— | New Zealand | 2008 Worlds | 12 | Aaron McIntosh, Mark Kennedy |
15 | Ukraine | 2008 Worlds | 16 | Pavlo Kalynchev, Andrey Shaufranyuk |
* Nation invited via a Tripartate Commission Place or Unused Quota Place
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