Dragon World Championship

The Dragon World Championship is an international biennial sailing regatta in the Dragon class organized by the International Sailing Federation and the .^[1]

Several sailors have won twice; Jesper Bank, , Ole Børresen, Poul Richard Høj Jensen, Vincent Hoesch, Erik Hansen all have two titles. The most championships has been won by the Danish crew, with 8 editions.

The Dragon was an Olympic class from 1948 to 1972.

History[]

The first Dragon World Championships were held in 1965.

Editions[]

Year	City	Country	Dates	Athletes	Nations	Notes
		Sweden				^[2]
		United States				^[3]
		Spain				^[4]
		Australia				^[5]
		Greece				^[6]
		United States				^[7]
		Switzerland				^[8]
		Australia				^[9]
	Douarnenez	France	6–11 September			^[10]
	Vancouver	Canada	21–30 July			^[11]
	Douarnenez	France	24 August – 1 September			^[12]
	Geelong	Australia	9–19 January			^[13]
		United Kingdom				^[14]
		Canada				^[15]
		Germany				^[16]
		Australia				^[17]
		Sweden				^[18]
	Martinique	Martinique	11–18 December			^[19]
	Hornbaek	Denmark	14–22 July			^[20]
	Hobart	Australia	18–27 January			^[21]
	Lübeck	Germany	19–28 August			^[22]
	Dún Laoghaire	Ireland	30 August – 8 September			^[23]
	Medemblik	Netherlands	5–11 September			^[24]
2011	Melbourne	Australia	9–15 January			^[25]
	Weymouth	United Kingdom	8–13 September			^[26]
	La Rochelle	France	4–12 June			^[27]
	Cascais	Portugal	9–17 June			^[28]
	Fremantle	Australia	4–9 January	105	10	^[29]

All-time medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Denmark (DEN)	7	5	5	17
2	Australia (AUS)	3	4	4	11
3	Germany (GER)	3	2	2	7
4	Sweden (SWE)	3	0	2	5
5	Great Britain (GBR)	3	0	1	4
6	West Germany (FRG)	2	4	1	7
7	United States (USA)	2	1	1	4
8	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
9	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
10	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	1	3
11	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	2	3
12	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
13	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		25	21	22	68

Medalists[]

Year v t	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1965 Sandhamn	White Lady (DEN) Ole Berntsen Ole Poulsen	Denmark Aage Birch	Sweden Jörgen Sundelin
1967 Toronto	Williwaw (USA) George Friedrichs Gerald Schreck Barton Jahncke	United States Robert Mosbacher	France Sence
1969 Palma de Mallorca	Aphrodite (USA) Robert Mosbacher	Australia Cueno Bradbary Shaw	East Germany Schwarz Pfeiffer Köpsel
1971 Hobart	Debutante (SWE) Jörgen Sundelin Peter Sundelin Ulf Sundelin	Australia Booth	Denmark Holm
1973 Athens	Crux (SWE) Roger Eliasson Johan Palmquist	West Germany Oldenburg May Meyer	Denmark Börresen
1975 Rochester	Galejan 2 (SWE) Bengt Palmquist Johan Palmquist Björn Palmquist	Canada Burgess	United States Craig
1977 Thun	U-2 (AUT) Franz Eisl	West Germany Ulrich Hofmann Hösch	Switzerland Wittwer Wittwer Wittwer
1979 Geelong	Kirribilli (AUS)	West Germany Glas	Australia Barry Calvert Tim Watts Ted Laing
1981 Trawemünde	Sandokan (FRG)	Denmark Børge Børresen Ole Børresen Goodall	Sweden Clander Hansson Nordin
1983 Vancouver	Mistral (CAN)	Australia Stiffe	Australia Wilmot
1985 Douarnenez	Cato (FRG)
1987 Geelong	Nordjyllong (DEN) Valdemar Bandolowski Soren Hvalso Erik Hansen	West Germany	Australia
1989 Torbay	Danish Blue (DEN) Poul Richard Høj Jensen Erik Hansen
1991	Krystle (AUS) Stephen Peel
1993 Trawemünde	Senior BB (DEN) Jesper Bank Ole Børresen Børge Børresen	Denmark Poul Richard Høj Jensen Claus Høj Jensen	Germany
1995 Perth	Karabos VIII (AUS) Andrew Burnett	Denmark Poul Richard Høj Jensen Klaus Jensen	Australia
1997	Sanne (DEN) Jesper Bank Claus Olsen Ole Børresen	Denmark Poul Richard Høj Jensen	Germany
1999 Fort-de-France	Maria (DEN) Claus Høj Jensen	Netherlands Fred Imhoff	Denmark
2001 Hornbæk	Germany	Germany	Denmark Frank Eriksen
2003 Hobart	Chrisco (GER) Vincent Hoesch	Australia Nick Rogers	Kirribilli II (AUS) Murray Jones
2005 Neustadt	African Queen (DEN)	Occasion (GER) Thomas Auracher	HLL-Ariston (GER) Vincent Hoesch
2007 Dun Laoghaire	Sinewave (GER) Vincent Hoesch	Gaudium (SUI) Ulli Libor Frank Butzmann	Rumours (GBR) Claus Høj Jensen
2009 Medemblik	Denmark Poul Richard Høj Jensen Theis Palm	Ukraine Lars Hendriksen Michael Hestbæk	Denmark
2011 Melbourne details	Alfie (GBR) Lawrie Smith Ossie Stewart	Bunker Queen (UKR)	My-Way (DEN)
2013 Weymouth	Fever (GBR) Klaus Diederichs Andy Beadsworth	Strange Little Girl (RUS) Andrey Kirilyuk	Bunker Queen (UKR)
2015 La Rochelle	Bunker Boys (UAE) Yevhen Braslavets Serhiy Timokhov	Strange Little Girl (GBR) Andrey Kirilyuk	Bunker Queen (UAE) George Leonchuk
2017 Cascais^[30]	Provezza Dragon (TUR) Andy Beadsworth Simon Fry	Annapurna (RUS) Alexander Shalagin	Alfie (GBR) Lawrie Smith Hugo Rocha Gonçalo Ribeiro
2019 Fremantle^[31]	Provezza Dragon (TUR) Andy Beadsworth	Louise Racing (GBR)	Fever (GBR) Diego Negri

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