2015-08-12
2015-08-22
Rio, Brazil
The latest news from across the class. Event coverage will appear here once it starts.
Two world championships this year, two titles decided by one point in the last race. The 49erFX in Quiberon and the ILCA 7 in Dun Laoghaire used the same shape of finals format, and both produced the ending it was designed for.
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Second Week of Olympic Class Racing Defined by Comebacks, Slow Climbs, and Wire-to-Wire Wins Across Fleets SAN PEDRO, CA – The second week of San Pedro OCR came to a close Sunday with 3 pairs of Olympic-class sailors crowned champions on the waters that will host sailing at L.A.’s 2028 Olympic Games. Sweden’s Vilma Bobeck […]
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49er, Nacra 17 and 49er FX Olympic Classes Head Into Friday With Medal Race Berths on the Line SAN PEDRO, CA – The race to compete in Saturday’s Final is on at San Pedro OCR as shifting leaderboards and narrow point margins across the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 fleets set the stage for a […]
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SAN PEDRO, CA – With 2 days remaining before the top 10 in each class advance to the medal races, the second week of San Pedro OCR has by and large seen steady leaders while the battles behind them continue to reshape the leaderboard across each class. Germany’s Richard Schultheis and Fabian Rieger kept the […]
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SAN PEDRO, CA – Day 2 of racing for the 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 fleets at San Pedro OCR challenged the Olympic hopefuls with a very different version of the future L.A. 2028 racecourse. The day kicked off with lighter, less predictable winds forcing sailors to quickly adjust both their tactics and mindset as […]
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SAN PEDRO, CA – The first day of racing for the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 fleets Monday at San Pedro OCR gave the fleets’ sailors their first opportunity to test themselves on the waters that will play host to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. Winds built into the mid-to-upper teens following the afternoon […]
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49er Men’s, 49erFX Women’s, and Nacra 17 Mixed Olympic Fleets Bring High-Performance Racing to the Regatta’s Second Week at the Site of the 2028 Games SAN PEDRO, CA – The second half of the San Pedro Olympic Class Regatta gets underway this afternoon as some of the world’s fastest Olympic sailing classes launch from the […]
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Second week of Olympic competition kicks off on August 3 in the L.A. Harbor and Runs until August 8 SAN PEDRO, CA – Sailing continues in the first Olympic Class regatta to take place at the Port of Los Angeles in 96 years, including the 1984 L.A. Games, held east of this site. The coming week […]
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As sailing’s fastest league commits to bigger fleets, the sport’s deepest talent pool is already stocked with the next generation of drivers from Gdynia to Medemblik to a training base outside Mumbai. On a windy weekend in Portsmouth last month, SailGP did something it had only done once before, reluctantly, after things went wrong. It […]
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Italy topped the 49er and Nacra 17 fleets, Poland took the 49erFX crown with a race to spare, and the 2026 Junior World Championship wrapped up with three tight, dramatic finishes MEDEMBLIK, NETHERLANDS, July 26, 2026 Racing wrapped up today at the 2026 Junior World Championship. Organizers moved the start up earlier than the rest […]
Read MoreThe test event, formerly known as the pre-Olympics, is a test for the organization more so than the sailors. However, many federations and teams take the event very seriously and there has been reasonable correlation between pre-Olympic performance and Olympic performance historically.
Only 1 team may enter from any nation, so the intra-squad competition has been tight for many competitors. Further, many squads will bring complete support staff to the event to give everyone a full warm up to the Olympics.
Both the 49er and 49erFX regattas will be tightly fought, though last year was a disapointment wind wise and organizationally as the best winds were in the early morning hours and the organization was not flexible enough to conduct the racing then. The 49erFX raced only 2 days of 4 while the 49er raced 3 days of 4, though one of the days there was only 1 race which is always a good indicator of poor racing conditions.
Much of the focus for the worlds press will be on the pollution in the water of Gunabara bay, but the sailors, like always will be looking at the wind, current, and possibly trash, but certainly their competitors.
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