The vote at the recent ISAF meeting held in St. Petersburg, Russia May 4-8 confirmed both the 49er and a women’s skiff for the 2016 Olympic Games.
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
To read more about what happened in St Petersburg, read on
Happy Skiff sailors in St. Petersburg, Russia: Hanna Dahlborg (SWE), Julian Bethwaite (AUS), Jen Morgan-Glass (29er President, USA); Pippa Wilson (GBR), Marcus Spilland (49er CEO, IRL)
