Flying Dutchman World Championship

The Flying Dutchman World Championship, also known as FD Worlds, are international sailing regattas in the Flying Dutchman class organized by the since 1956 and recognised by World Sailing.^[1]

The & team has been the most successful in the history of the championships, with fourteen titles, making Hungary the most successful among the nations. Danish sailors together have won thirteen championships as well, followed by sailors of West Germany with eight titles.

Flying Dutchman was an Olympic class from 1960 to 1992.

History[]

The first Flying Dutchman World Championships were held in Starnberger See in 1956.

Editions[]

Year	City	Country	Dates	Note
	Starnberger See	West Germany	19–25 August	^[2]^[3]
	Rimini	Italy	18–25 August	^[4]
	Attersee	Austria	2–7 September	^[5]
	Whitstable	United Kingdom	20–25 July	^[6]
1960	Not held
1961	Not held
	St. Petersburg	United States	3–10 March	^[7]
	Tutzing	West Germany	30 September – 5 October	^[8]
1964	Not held
	Alassio	Italy	13–19 September	^[9]
1966	Not held
	Montreal	Canada	8–16 September	^[10]
1968	Not held
	Naples	Italy		^[11]
	Adelaide	Australia	20–26 February	^[12]
	La Rochelle	France	26 July – 1 August	^[13]
1972	Not held
	Rochester	United States	8–12 September	^[14]
	Weymouth	United Kingdom	11–16 July	^[15]
	Abino Bay	Canada		^[16]
1976	Not held
	Torbole	Italy		^[17]
	Hayling Island	United Kingdom	17–22 September	^[18]
	Kiel	West Germany		^[19]
	Malmö	Sweden	8–14 June	^[20]
	Palamós	Spain		^[3]
	Geelong	Australia	2–10 January 1983	^[21]
	Cagliari	Italy	3–12 June	^[22]
	La Rochelle	France	4–12 April	^[23]
	Gargnano	Italy	1–12 July	^[24]
	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	12–23 February	^[25]
	Kiel	West Germany	26 June – 4 July	^[26]
	Medemblik	Netherlands	1–9 July	^[27]
	Alassio	Italy	16–23 September	^[28]
	Newport	United States	1–8 September	^[29]
	Tauranga	New Zealand	29 December 1991 – 8 January 1992	^[30]
	Cádiz	Spain	10–17 May	^[31]
	Travemünde	Germany	1–7 August	^[32]^[33]
	Adelaide	Australia	2–9 January 1995	^[34]^[35]
	Torbole	Italy	27 August - 3 September	^[36]^[37]
	Balatonföldvár	Hungary	19–25 May	^[38]
	St. Petersburg	United States	31 March – 5 April	^[39]
	Den Oever	Netherlands	25 July – 1 August	^[40]
	Lee-on-Solent	United Kingdom	23–31 July	^[41]
	Durban	South Africa	13–24 November	^[42]
	Gilleleje	Denmark	20–28 June	^[43]
	Tavira	Portugal	28 August – 3 September	^[44]
	Port Phillip	Australia	27 December 2003 – 6 January 2004	^[45]
	Warnemünde	Germany	28 July – 4 August	^[46]
	Balatonföldvár	Hungary	9–16 September	^[47]
	St. Petersburg	United States	4–11 April	^[48]
	Mar Menor	Spain	13–16 July	^[49]
	Napier	New Zealand	31 December 2008 – 11 January 2009	^[50]
	Medemblik	Netherlands	31 July – 7 August	^[51]
	Constanta	Romania	27 July – 6 August	^[52]
	Malcesine	Italy	30 June – 9 July	^[53]
	Santa Cruz	United States	23–30 September	^[54]
	Balatonföldvár	Hungary	24 May – 1 June	^[55]
	Largs	United Kingdom	11–19 July	^[56]
	Sydney	Australia	1–8 January	^[57]
	Steinhude	Germany	20–29 May	^[58]
	Scarlino	Italy	22–30 September	^[59]
	Medemblik	Netherlands	20–28 July	^[60]
	Nelson	New Zealand	13–21 February	^[61]
	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[62]
	Altea	Spain	4–11 September
	Campione	Italy	3–9 October

All-time medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	14	6	0	20
2	Denmark (DEN)	13	2	3	18
3	West Germany (FRG)	8	8	7	23
4	Great Britain (GBR)	5	3	3	11
5	Australia (AUS)	4	5	4	13
6	United States (USA)	3	0	0	3
7	Netherlands (NED)	2	5	9	16
8	France (FRA)	2	5	3	10
9	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	0	2
10	Germany (GER)	1	10	10	21
11	Italy (ITA)	1	3	8	12
12	Spain (ESP)	1	2	2	5
13	East Germany (GDR)	1	2	1	4
14	Canada (CAN)	1	0	3	4
15	New Zealand (NZL)	0	5	1	6
16	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	1	2
17	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
18	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 nations)		58	58	58	174

Medalists[]

Year v t	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1956 Starnberger See	West Germany Rolf Mulka Ingo von Bredow	East Germany	West Germany	^[63]
1957 Rimini	West Germany Rolf Mulka Ingo von Bredow	Netherlands Jaap Helder	West Germany	^[63]
1958 Attersee	Australia Rolly Tasker Ian Palmer	Italy Emilio Massino	Netherlands
1959 Whitstable	Italy Mario Capio Tullio Pizzorno	Great Britain Adrian Jardine	West Germany Rolf Mulka Ingo von Bredow
1962 St. Petersburg	Denmark Hans Fogh Paul Elvstrøm	Australia Rolly Tasker	Great Britain James Ramus
1963 Starnberger See	Switzerland Jean-Pierre Renevier	Great Britain Keith Musto Tony Morgan	Italy Mario Capio Marco Sartori
1965 Alassio	Great Britain	Italy Mario Capio Marco Sartori	East Germany Werner Christoph
1967 Montréal	Great Britain John Oakeley David Hunt	New Zealand Geoffrey Smale Ralph Roberts	Austria Karl Geiger Werner Fischer
1969 Napoli	Great Britain Rodney Pattison Ian MacDonald-Smith	France	Great Britain Keith Musto
1970 Adelaide	Great Britain Rodney Pattison Ian MacDonald-Smith	Great Britain Edward Leask	Australia Bob Miller
1971 La Rochelle	Great Britain Rodney Pattison Julian Brooke-Houghton	New Zealand Jock Bilger Murray Ross	Australia Mark Bethwaite Tim Alexander
1973 Rochester	Denmark Hans Fogh Evert Bastet	France Marc Pajot Yves Pajot	Brazil Reinaldo Conrad Burkhard Cordes
1974 Weymouth	East Germany Bernd Klenke	East Germany Herbert Hüttner	Canada Hans Fogh Evert Bastet
1975 Abino Bay	France Marc Pajot Yves Pajot	New Zealand Jock Bilger Murray Ross	West Germany Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch
1977 Nago-Torbole	Switzerland Jörg Hotz André Nicolet	West Germany Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch	Netherlands Erik Vollebregt Sjoerd Vollebregt
1978 Hayling Island	West Germany Albert Batzill	West Germany Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch	Spain Alejandro Abascal Miguel Noguer
1979 Kiel	France Thierry Poirey	Spain Alejandro Abascal Miguel Noguer	Netherlands Erik Vollebregt Sjoerd Vollebregt
1980 Malmö	Canada Evert Bastet	West Germany Albert Batzill	West Germany Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch
1981 Palamós	West Germany Albert Batzill	West Germany Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch	Italy Marco Savelli Roberto Gazzei
1982 Geelong	West Germany	Sweden Bengt Hagander Magnus Kjell	Canada Evert Bastet
1983 Cagliari	United States Jonathan McKee William Carl Buchan	West Germany Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch	Soviet Union Sergey Borodinov Vladyslav Akimenko
1984 La Rochelle	West Germany Albert Batzill	France	France Laurent Delage Thierry Poirey
1985 Carignano	Denmark	West Germany Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch	Italy Mario Celon Claudio Celon
1986 Rio de Janeiro	West Germany Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch	West Germany Albert Batzill	Canada Frank McLaughlin John Millen
1987 Kiel	Spain Luis Doreste	Soviet Union Sergey Borodinov	West Germany
1988 Medemblik	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen Møller Christian Grønborg	New Zealand	France Thierry Berger Vincent Berger
1989 Alassio	West Germany Albert Batzill Peter Lang	West Germany	Norway Ole Petter Pollen Erik Bjorkum
1990 Newport	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen Møller Jens Bojsen Møller	France Thierry Berger Vincent Berger	West Germany Albert Batzill Peter Lang
1991 Tauranga	United States Paul Foerster Stephen Bourdow	France Thierry Berger Vincent Berger	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen Møller Jens Bojsen Møller
1992 Cadiz	United States Paul Foerster Stephen Bourdow	New Zealand Greg Knowles	France Thierry Berger Vincent Berger
1993 Travemünde	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen Møller Jens Bojsen Møller	Germany Stephan Schurich	Germany
1994 Adelaide	Hungary	Australia James Cook	New Zealand Simon Mander
1995 Nago-Torbole	Australia James Cook	Germany	Netherlands
1996 Balatonfüred	Germany Ulf Lehmann Stefan Mädicke	Hungary	Germany Uwe Steingross
1997 St. Petersburg	Australia James Cook	Italy	Germany
1998 Den Oever	Netherlands	Australia James Cook	Netherlands Jacob Bojsen-Møller
1999 Lee-on-the-Solent	Denmark Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Germany Jörn Borowski	Netherlands
2000 Durban	Australia James Cook	Germany	Great Britain
2001 Gilleleje	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Hungary	Germany
2002 Tavira	Hungary	Germany	Italy
2003 Sandringham	Hungary	Australia	Germany
2004 Warnemünde	Hungary	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Germany Jörn Borowski
2005 Balatonföldvár	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Hungary	Australia
2006 St. Petersburg	Hungary	Germany	Italy
2007 Los Alcázares	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Spain	Germany
2008 Napier	Hungary	Australia	Australia
2009 Medemblik	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Hungary	Netherlands
2010 Constanţa	Hungary	Netherlands	Italy
2011 Malcesine	Hungary	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Netherlands
2012 Santa Cruz	Hungary	Netherlands	Germany
2013 Balatonföldvár	Netherlands	Hungary	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller
2014 Largs	Hungary	Netherlands	Italy
2015 Sydney	Hungary	Netherlands	Germany
2016 Steinhude	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Germany	Germany
2017 Scarlino	Hungary	Germany	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	^[64]
2018 Medemblik	Denmark Jørgen Bojsen-Møller Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Hungary	Italy	^[65]
2019 Nelson	Hungary	Germany	Netherlands	^[66]
2021 Altea	Hungary	Germany	Spain Jose Luis Ruiz	^[67]

Multiple medallists[]

#	Athlete	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1		Hungary	14	6	0	19
-		Hungary	14	6	0	19
3	Jørgen Bojsen-Møller	Denmark	9	2	3	14
4	Jacob Bojsen-Møller	Denmark	7	2	2	11
5	Albert Batzill	Germany	4	2	1	7
6		Australia	3	3	0	6
-	James Cook	Australia	3	3	0	6
8	Rodney Pattison	United Kingdom	3	0	0	3
9		Netherlands	2	4	3	9
10		Germany	2	1	0	3
11	Evert Bastet	Denmark Canada	2	0	2	4
12	Hans Fogh	Denmark Canada	2	0	1	3
-	Rolf Mulka	West Germany	2	0	1	3
-	Ingo von Bredow	West Germany	2	0	1	3
-	Jens Bojsen-Møller	Denmark	2	0	1	3
16	Ian MacDonald-Smith	United Kingdom	2	0	0	2
-	Paul Foerster	United States	2	0	0	2
-	Stephen Bourdow	United States	2	0	0	2
-		Denmark	2	0	0	2
20	Jörg Diesch	West Germany	1	5	2	8
-	Eckart Diesch	West Germany	1	5	2	8
22		Netherlands	1	4	2	7
23	Mario Capio	Italy	1	1	1	3
24	Rolly Tasker	Australia	1	1	0	2
-		West Germany	1	1	0	2
-		West Germany	1	1	0	2
27	Peter Lang	West Germany	1	0	1	2
-		Netherlands	1	0	1	2

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