ISAF Confirms Events for 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition

ISAF confirms events for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition at 2011 ISAF Mid-Year Meeting in St Petersburg, Russia.

ISAF President Göran Petersson led the ISAF Council in more than three hours of debate and discussion before the ten events were decided. Over 50 Submissions were received for consideration following the changes to the process for selecting events and equipment that was agreed in November 2010.

The ten events selected by the ISAF Council for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition are:

Men’s Board or Kiteboard - evaluation

Women’s Board or Kiteboard - evaluation

Men’s One Person Dinghy - Laser

Women’s One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial

Men’s 2nd One Person Dinghy - Finn

Men’s Skiff - 49er

Women’s Skiff – Evaluation

Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470

Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470

Mixed Two Person Multihull - Evaluation

The Vote

In November 2010, a provisional list of Events and Equipment ("the slate") was agreed by the ISAF Council. Since then, ISAF received over 50 Urgent Submissions which proposed alternative slates. A two-stage voting process, similar to that used by the IOC when choosing a host city for the Olympic Games, was used to decide the final list.

After the first stage, seven Submissions went through to the second stage of voting. There was a palpable sense of tension in the meeting room as the Council awaited the results of the second stage.

For more information, contact: www.sailing.org/contactisaf.

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