Sailing at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

Sailing at the X Paralympic Games
Paralympic Sailing
Venue	Lake Lanier, Aqualand Marin
Competitors	59 from 15 nations
Medalists
Great Britain  Great Britain Canada  Canada United States  United States
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Sailing at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of one event, which was open to any gender and sailed in the Sonar keelboats.^[1] This was the first time sailing has been included in the paralympics where the sport was a demonstration sport along with wheelchair rugby, and not an official part of the 14 core sports on the Paralympic program, but medals were awarded. Sailing in the 1996 Summer Olympics^[2] was held in Savannah but Paralympic event did not use those facilities, instead holding the event on Lake Lanier based around the Aqualand Marina.^[3] The distance between Savannah and Atlanta was probably the motivation for this as it was important to showcase the sport.

Rank	Team	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Total	Net
1	Great Britain (GBR) Andy Cassell, , , Ian Harrison	3	5	7	2	1 0.75	1 0.75	(9)	27.5	18.5
2	Canada (CAN) , John McRoberts, ,	7	1 0.75	(DNS)	1 0.75	2	2	10	38.5	22.5
3	United States (USA) , , ,	5	4	5	4	5	(9)	4	36	27
4	Sweden (SWE) , , ,	(9)	7	4	7	3	4	1 0.75	34.75	25.75
5	Switzerland (SUI) , ,	2	(10)	6	3	6	8	3	38	28
6	New Zealand (NZL) , , ,	1 0.75	2	9	8	7	(12)	2	40.75	28.75
7	Netherlands (NED) , Udo Hessels, ,	39.75
8	Armenia (ARM) , , ,	40.00
9	Ireland (IRL) , Kevin Downing, ,	46.00
10	Finland (FIN) , , ,	50.00
11	Germany (GER) , , ,	53.00
12	Spain (ESP) Juan San Emeterio, , ,	56.00
13	Norway (NOR) , , Jostein Stordahl,	61.00
14	Japan (JPN) , , ,	65.00
15	Poland (POL) , , ,	84.00

References[]

• Sailing at the 1996 Summer Paralympics (Atlanta) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)