2006 ISAF World Sailing Games

The 2006 ISAF World Sailing Games was held at Lake Neusiedl, Austria 10–20 May.^[1]

The events were 420 team racing, 470 (men and women), 49er, women's Hobie 16, Hobie Tiger, men's Laser, women's Laser Radial, and RS:X (men and women).^[1] In the 2006 event, sailors from similar classes were invited to participate, e.g. the medalists from and the world champions in Byte, Contender, and OK were invited to the men's one-person dinghy event in Laser.^[2]

Competition format[]

Events and equipment[]

Of each countries entries, two were initially accepted: the first entry from the country and the entry that was best-ranked on the most recent for the corresponding Olympic event. Additionally, the organising committee could accept the second-fastest entry per country if the quota of the event was not yet reached. Champions and medalists of the latest World championships could enter outside the national restrictions as listed below. Also top-ten of the 15 February 2006 and current World champions in Olympic classes (except Yngling, Finn and Star), as well as top-four of the 2005 were qualified.^[3]

Invited sailors[]

Criteria	Men				Women				Open
	Laser	470	Hobie Tiger[a]	RS:X	Laser Radial	470	Hobie 16	RS:X	49er	Team
top ten [4][5][6][7]	Robert Scheidt Paul Goodison Andreas Geritzer Vasilij Žbogar Mate Arapov Gustavo Lima Felix Pruvot Tom Slingsby Bernard Luttmer Matías del Solar	Gideon Kliger Álvaro Marinho Gabrio Zandonà Sven Coster Nick Rogers Dmitri Berezkin Ger Owens Matthias Schmid			Paige Railey Laura Baldwin Krystal Weir Anna Tobias Lisa Ross Andrea Brewster	Ingrid Petitjean Christina Bassadone Sylvia Vogl Marcelien de Koning Nike Kornecki Therese Torgersson Natalia Vía Dufresne Pippa Wilson Jennifer Provan María Fernanda Sesto	N/A			N/A
Class WC winners	Robert Scheidt	Wilmot & Page	Echávarri & Paz		Paige Railey	de Koning & Berkhout	N/A	Blanca Manchón	Luka & Leonchuk	USA 1 USA 2 Great Britain 1 Great Britain 2
Other WC winners	Ben Ainslie Aimilios Papathanasiou Chris Cook Byte champion Nick Craig	420 champions 505 champions Bojsen-Møller & Bojsen-Møller	A-Catamaran champions Dart 18 champions Formula 18 champions Hobie 16 champions Hobie Tiger champions	N/A	Europe champion	N/A	Hobie 16 (women) 1 Hobie 16 (women) 2 Hobie 16 (women) 3	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	3	2	1	6
2	United States (USA)	2	0	2	4
3	France (FRA)	1	4	1	6
4	Ukraine (UKR)	1	2	1	4
5	Spain (ESP)	1	0	2	3
6	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
8	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
10	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		10	10	10	30

Event medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
420 (team racing)[8]	United States	Great Britain	United States Tim Wadlow
Men's 470[9]	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	France	Spain Kiko Sánchez Alejandro Ramos
Women's 470[10]	France Ingrid Petitjean Nadège Douroux	Australia Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson	Ukraine Ruslana Taran Olena Pakholchyk
49er[11]	Spain Iker Martínez de Lizarduy	Ukraine Rodion Luka George Leonchuk	Italy Pietro Sibello Gianfranco Sibello
Hobie 16[12]	Germany	France	United States
Hobie Tiger[13]	Australia Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby	Netherlands Mitch Booth Herbert Dercksen	Netherlands Coen de Koning
Laser[14]	Tom Slingsby (AUS)	(FRA)	Diego Romero (ARG)
Laser Radial[15]	Paige Railey (USA)	(FRA)	Sarah Blanck (AUS)
Men's RS:X[16]	Max Oberemko (UKR)	Tom Ashley (NZL)	Julien Bontemps (FRA)
Women's RS:X[17]	(CHN)	Olga Maslivets (UKR)	Blanca Manchón (ESP)

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