List of Olympic venues in sailing explained

For the Summer Olympics, there are 32 venues that have been or will be used for sailing. Most competitions took place for the early part of the Olympics at or near venues, but no specific yacht or sailing club was listed in the official Olympic report. In 1920, the twelve-foot dinghy event set for Ostend was moved to the Netherlands at special request of the Belgian Olympic Committee. The first specific yacht or sailing club to host the competitions took place in 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City though those competitions took place actually in Acapulco. Eight years later in Montreal, the competitions took place on the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario, marking the first and only time the sailing competitions took place in freshwater.

During the fifth race of the 1988 Summer Olympic sailing Finn event near Busan, Canada's Lawrence Lemieux was in second place when he noticed Joseph Chan of Singapore in the water 25yd from his capsized boat.[1] Lemieux abandoned his position and rescued Chan and Chan's Singapore teammate. Even though Lemieux finished last in the race, the IOC gave him second place for the race as a result of Lemieux's heroic efforts.[2] [3] Lemieux would be awarded the IOC Pierre de Coubertin medal at the Finn medal awards ceremony by President Juan Antonio Samaranch.[4]

The 1992 Summer Olympic venue was noted for its numerous complaints from the sailors over the debris found at the Olympic Harbor.[5] Among the items found were dead rats and floating refrigerators. It was so bad that Barcelona port authorities, under pressure from the International Yacht Racing Union (later International Sailing Federation, now World Sailing since 2015), assigned four garbage vessels to collect garbage daily. In the men's windsurfer event, American Mike Gebhardt got a plastic bag caught on his boardsail in the last lap of the seventh race. Six boardsailers passed Gebhardt before he could dislodge the plastic bag. Gebhardt lost out a gold by 0.4 points over France's Franck David.[6]

GamesVenueOther sports at venues for those gamesCapacityRef.
1900 ParisLe HavreNoneNot listed.[7]
Meulan-en-YvelinesNoneNot listed.[8]
None Not listed.[9]
Not listed.[10]
None Not listed.[11]
Buiten Y (12 foot dinghy) None Not listed.[12]
Not listed.[13] [14]
None 541[15]
None 389[16]
None 2,263[17]
None 2,263
None Not listed.[18]
None Not listed.[19]
None Not listed.[20]
None Not listed.[21]
None 19,000
None Not listed[22]
None Not listed.[23] [24]
None Not listed. [25]
None Not listed. [26]
None 4,000 on 14 steamers who wanted to watch the action.[27]
None Not listed[28]
None Not listed [29]
None Not listed.[30]
None 80[31]
None Not listed. [32]
None 1,000[33] [34]
None 10,000[35]
None 8,000[36]
2008 BeijingQingdao International Sailing CentreNoneA ticketed area was created for the first time in sailing on the breakwater of the marina.[37]
None A ticketed spectator area was created away from the marina at Nothe Fort with a capacity of 5000 people.[38]
None 10,000
None 10,000
None 5,000
None 6,000
None 10,000

Notes and References

  1. Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Sailing: Men's Finn". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London Aurum Press Limited. p. 827.
  2. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1988/1988v2p2.pdf 1988 Summer Olympics official report.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181806/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1988/SAI/mixed-one-person-dinghy-race-five.html Sports-reference.com 1988 Summer Olympics sailing mixed-one-person-dinghy (Finn) class 24 September Race Five results.
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20090830035037/http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/sports/story.html?id=063e5f99-458f-47c2-b6c2-0e34056bb81f "Lemieux's sportsmanship still recognized".
  5. Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Sailing: Men's Windsurfer". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 823–4.
  6. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1992/1992s5.pdf 1992 Summer Olympics official report.
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20080528012428/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1900/1900.pdf 1900 Summer Olympics official report.
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417202832/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/SAI/mixed-open.html Sports-reference.com Summer Olympics Paris 20 May 1900 sailing mixed open results.
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222443/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1908/1908.pdf 1908 Summer Olympics official report.
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222443/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1908/1908.pdf 1908 Summer Olympics official report.
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20080410231505/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1912/1912.pdf 1912 Summer Olympics official report.
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124621/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1920/SAI/mixed-12-foot.html Sports-Reference.com 1920 Summer Olympics sailing mixed 12-foot results.
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132515/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1920/POL/mens-polo.html Sports-reference.com 1920 Summer Olympics polo.
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417060243/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1920/SAI/ Sports-reference.com 1920 Summer Olympics sailing.
  15. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.
  16. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.
  17. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1928/1928.pdf 1928 Summer Olympics official report, featuring map of the Buiten IJ.
  18. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1932/1932s.pdf 1932 Summer Olympics official report.
  19. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936v2sum.pdf 1936 Summer Olympics official report.
  20. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf 1948 Summer Olympics official report.
  21. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf 1952 Summer Olympics official report.
  22. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1956/OR1956.pdf 1956 Summer Olympics official report.
  23. https://web.archive.org/web/20081031012134/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1960/OR1960v1.pdf 1960 Summer Olympics official report.
  24. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1960/OR1960v2pt2.pdf 1960 Summer Olympics official report.
  25. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1964/or1964v1pt1.pdf 1964 Summer Olympics official report.
  26. https://web.archive.org/web/20081118070058/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1968/1968v2pt1.pdf 1968 Summer Olympics official report.
  27. https://web.archive.org/web/20081118144451/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1972/1972s2pt2.pdf 1972 Summer Olympics official report.
  28. https://web.archive.org/web/20100506012124/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1976/1976v2.pdf 1976 Summer Olympics official report.
  29. https://web.archive.org/web/20081118143909/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1980/or1980v2pt1.pdf 1980 Summer Olympics official report.
  30. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1984/1984v1pt1.pdf 1984 Summer Olympics official report.
  31. https://web.archive.org/web/20081118220933/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1988/1988v1p1.pdf 1988 Summer Olympics official report.
  32. https://web.archive.org/web/20080528011647/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1992/1992s2.pdf 1992 Summer Olympics official report.
  33. https://web.archive.org/web/20080528011846/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v1.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.
  34. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.
  35. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/2000v1.pdf 2000 Summer Olympics official report.
  36. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2004/or2004b.pdf 2004 Summer Olympics official report.
  37. Web site: Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center . Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad . 2008-08-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080810102426/http://en.beijing2008.cn/venues/qdm/index.shtml . 2008-08-10 .
  38. http://www.london2012.com/games/venues/weymouth-and-portland.php London2012.com profile of Weymouth and Portland.

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