Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

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Qualification rules

A nation may earn up to 1 boat in each of the 11 Sailing events.

Summary

Nation	Men				Women				Open			Total
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	X	X	X		X	X	X				X	7	10
		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	17
		X	X	X			X		X		X	6	11
		X										1	1
	X		X			X						3	4
						X					X	2	3
	X	X	X	X	X		X		X	X		8	12
					X							1	1
	X	X	X		X	X		X	X	X	X	9	14
		X										1	1
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	18
	X											1	1
	X											1	1
	X	X	X	X		X			X	X		7	10
	X	X			X					X		4	4
		X					X			X		3	4
	X	X			X				X	X		5	6
		X										1	1
	X	X										2	2
		X	X		X	X		X		X		6	9
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	18
				X		X	X	X	X		X	6	12
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	18
	X	X	X		X	X		X		X	X	8	12
		X										1	1
	X				X							2	2
	X	X			X							3	3
										X		1	1
	X											1	1
			X	X		X				X		4	6
	X		X		X	X	X					5	7
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	18
	X	X	X		X		X		X			6	9
						X						1	1
		X										1	1
		X										1	1
	X				X	X						3	3
	X	X	X				X	X		X	X	7	12
	X	X	X	X	X	X				X		7	9
		X			X	X		X	X	X		6	9
						X						1	1
						X						1	1
	X	X	X	X	X	X			X	X		8	11
	X	X	X	X					X			5	8
	X	X	X		X	X		X		X		7	10
		X										1	1
		X	X			X	X					4	6
	X											1	1
		X	X				X			X		4	6
								X				1	3
	X	X	X									3	4
	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	16
		X	X	X		X	X		X	X		7	11
	X	X	X	X		X	X					6	9
	X				X							2	2
	X	X	X		X					X		5	6
	X				X				X		X	4	6
align=left nowrap			X										1	1
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	18
		X										1	1
	X	X								X		3	3
		X										1	1
Total: 62 NOCs	35	43	29	16	27	28	19	15	19	26	15	272	400

Qualification Timeline

Event	Date	Location
2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships	Jun 28 – Jul 13, 2007	Cascais
2008 49er World Championships	January 2–9, 2008	Sydney
2008 RS:X World Championships	January 10–20, 2008	Auckland
2008 Finn Gold Cup	January 23–29, 2008	Melbourne
2008 470 World Championships	January 24–30, 2008	Melbourne
2008 Laser World Championships	February 7–13, 2008	Terrigal
2008 Yngling World Championships	February 10–15, 2008	Miami
2008 Tornado World Championships	Feb 25 – Mar 1, 2008	Auckland
2008 Laser Radial World Championships	March 15–20, 2008	Auckland
2008 Star World Championships	April 11–17, 2008	Miami

Men's events

Windsurfer – RS:X

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Wang Aichen
		2007 Worlds	1		Ricardo Santos
		2007 Worlds	2		Przemysław Miarczyński
		2007 Worlds	3		Nick Dempsey
		2007 Worlds	4		João Rodrigues
		2007 Worlds	6		Iván Pastor
		2007 Worlds	7		Julien Bontemps
		2007 Worlds	8		Shahar Tzuberi
		2007 Worlds	10		Nikolaos Kaklamanakis
10		2007 Worlds	11		Fabian Heidegger
11		2007 Worlds	13		Richard Stauffacher
12		2007 Worlds	15		Tom Ashley
13		2007 Worlds	18		Casper Bouman
14		2007 Worlds	19		Ertuğrul İçingir
15		2007 Worlds	24		Áron Gádorfalvi
16		2007 Worlds	26		Zachary Plavsic
17		2007 Worlds	29
18		2007 Worlds	32
19		2007 Worlds	33		Makoto Tomizawa
—		2007 Worlds	35
20		2007 Worlds	39		David Mier
21		2007 Worlds	43		Chan King Yin
22		2007 Worlds	45		Andreas Cariolou
23		2007 Worlds	47		Mariano Reutemann
24		2007 Worlds	50		Benjamin Barger
25		2007 Worlds	55		Mikalai Zhukavets
—		2008 Worlds	48
26		2008 Worlds	49		Ek Boonsawad
27		2008 Worlds	50		Lee Tae-hoon
28		2008 Worlds	57		Aleksey Tokarev
29		2008 Worlds	63		Patrik Pollák
30		2008 Worlds	68		Luka Mratović
31		2008 Worlds	70		Oka Sulaksana
32		2008 Worlds	71		Johannes Ahun
33		2008 Worlds	77		Carlos Julio Flores
34		2008 Worlds	87
35		2008 Worlds	95		Chang Hao

One-person dinghy – Laser

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Shen Sheng
		2007 Worlds	1		Tom Slingsby
		2007 Worlds	2		Andrew Murdoch
		2007 Worlds	3		Deniss Karpak
		2007 Worlds	4		Luka Radelić
		2007 Worlds	5		Paul Goodison
		2007 Worlds	6		Rasmus Myrgren
		2007 Worlds	7		Matías del Solar
		2007 Worlds	8		Jean-Baptiste Bernaz
10		2007 Worlds	10		Gustavo Lima
—		2007 Worlds	14
11		2007 Worlds	18		Alejandro Foglia
12		2007 Worlds	19		Javier Hernández
13		2007 Worlds	20		Bruno Fontes
14		2007 Worlds	22		Vasilij Žbogar
15		2007 Worlds	23		Anders Nyholm
16		2007 Worlds	24		Pierre Collura
17		2007 Worlds	28		Diego Romero
18		2007 Worlds	29		Andrew Campbell
19		2007 Worlds	32		Mike Leigh
20		2007 Worlds	35		Rutger van Schaardenburg
21		2007 Worlds	36		Evangelos Cheimonas
22		2007 Worlds	39		Julio Alsogaray
23		2007 Worlds	41		Andreas Geritzer
24		2007 Worlds	45		Maciej Grabowski
25		2007 Worlds	49
26		2007 Worlds	51		Kemal Muslubaş
27		2007 Worlds	52		Martin Trčka
28		2007 Worlds	55		Kristian Ruth
29		2007 Worlds	62		Pavlos Kontides
30		2008 Worlds	42		Ha Jee-min
31		2008 Worlds	59		Christoph Bottoni
32		2008 Worlds	64		Yoichi Iijima
33		2008 Worlds	69		Kevin Lim
34		2008 Worlds	77		Koh Seng Leong
35		2008 Worlds	80		José Ruiz
36		2008 Worlds	85		Raúl Aguayo
37		2008 Worlds	86		Igor Lisovenko
38		2008 Worlds	87		Zsombor Berecz
39		2008 Worlds	99		Juan Ignacio Maegli
40		2008 Worlds	104		Marc Schmit
41		Tripartite			Thomas Barrows III
42		Tripartite			Gregory Douglas
43		Tripartite			Adil Mohammad

Two-person dinghy – 470

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Wang Weidong Deng Daokun
		2007 Worlds	1		Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield
		2007 Worlds	2		Sven Coster Kalle Coster
		2007 Worlds	3		Gideon Kliger Udi Gal
		2007 Worlds	4		Álvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes
		2007 Worlds	5		Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page
		2007 Worlds	6		Šime Fantela Igor Marenić
		2007 Worlds	7		Nicolas Charbonnier Olivier Bausset
		2007 Worlds	9		Onán Barreiros Aarón Sarmiento
10		2007 Worlds	10		Stuart McNay Graham Biehl
11		2007 Worlds	12		Javier Conte Juan de la Fuente
12		2007 Worlds	14		Sergei Desukevich Pavel Logunov
13		2007 Worlds	15		Tetsuya Matsunaga Taro Ueno
14		2007 Worlds	18		Anton Dahlberg Sebastian Östling
—		2007 Worlds	21
15		2007 Worlds	25		Karlo Hmeljak Mitja Nevečny
16		2007 Worlds	26		Andreas Kosmatopoulos Andreas Papadopoulos
17		2007 Worlds	28		Gabrio Zandonà Andrea Trani
18		2007 Worlds	29		Stéphane Locas Oliver Bone
19		2007 Worlds	30		Yoon Cheul Kim Hyeong-tae
20		2007 Worlds	31		Xu Yuan Zhen Terence Koh
21		2007 Worlds	40		Gerald Owens Philip Lawton
22		2008 Worlds	11		Carl Evans Peter Burling
23		2008 Worlds	17		Mikhail Sheremetyev Maksim Sheremetyev
24		2008 Worlds	20		Patryk Piasecki Kacper Zieminski
25		2008 Worlds	29		Fábio Pillar Samuel Albrecht
26		2008 Worlds	39		Tobias Etter Felix Steiger
27		2008 Worlds	46		Matthias Schmid Florian Reichstädter
28		2008 Worlds	55		Deniz Çınar Ateş Çınar
29		2008 Worlds	58		Niklas Lindgren Heikki Elomaa

Keelboat – Star

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Li Hongquan Wang He
		2007 Worlds	1		Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada
		2007 Worlds	2		Xavier Rohart Pascal Rambeau
		2007 Worlds	3		Iain Percy Andrew Simpson
		2007 Worlds	4		Hamish Pepper Carl Williams
		2007 Worlds	5		Diego Negri Luigi Viale
		2007 Worlds	6		Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Życki
		2007 Worlds	7		Marc Pickel Ingo Borkowski
		2007 Worlds	8		Fredrik Lööf Anders Ekström
10		2007 Worlds	9		Iain Murray Andrew Palfrey
11		2007 Worlds	10	Afonso Domingos Bernardo Santos	Afonso Domingos Bernardo Santos
12		2007 Worlds	11		John Dane III Austin Sperry
13		2008 Worlds	4		Flavio Marazzi Enrico De Maria
14		2008 Worlds	12		Marin Lovrović Jr. Siniša Mikuličić
15		2008 Worlds	14		Peter O'Leary Stephen Milne
16		2008 Worlds	16		Hans Spitzauer Christian Nehammer

Women's events

Windsurfer – RS:X

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Yin Jian
		2007 Worlds	1		Zofia Klepacka
		2007 Worlds	2		Barbara Kendall
		2007 Worlds	3		Jessica Crisp
		2007 Worlds	4		Marina Alabau
		2007 Worlds	5		Alessandra Sensini
		2007 Worlds	6		Olha Maslivets
		2007 Worlds	7		Faustine Merret
—		2007 Worlds	9
		2007 Worlds	12
10		2007 Worlds	18		Chan Wai Kei
11		2007 Worlds	21		Athina Frai
12		2007 Worlds	27		Jannicke Stålstrøm
13		2007 Worlds	32		Tuuli Petäjä
14		2007 Worlds	33		Maayan Davidovich
15		2007 Worlds	34		Yasuko Kosuge
16		2007 Worlds	35		Irina Konstantinova
—		2007 Worlds	38
17		2007 Worlds	40		Nikola Girke
18		2007 Worlds	43		Patrícia Freitas
19		2007 Worlds	45		Bettina Honore
20		2008 Worlds	39		Napalai Tansai
21		2008 Worlds	50		Demita Vega
22		2008 Worlds	53		Diána Detre
23		2008 Worlds	58		Florencia Gutiérrez
24		2008 Worlds	59		Tatiana Bazyuk
25		2008 Worlds	60		Nancy Rios
26		2008 Worlds	61		Gavriella Chatzidamianou
27		2008 Worlds	69		Sedef Köktentürk

One-person dinghy – Laser Radial

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Xu Lijia
		2007 Worlds	1		Tatiana Drozdovskaya
		2007 Worlds	2		Tuula Tenkanen
		2007 Worlds	3		Petra Niemann
		2007 Worlds	4		Katarzyna Szotyńska
		2007 Worlds	5		Anna Tunnicliffe
		2007 Worlds	6		Tania Elías Calles
		2007 Worlds	7		Nufar Edelman
		2007 Worlds	8		Jo Aleh
10		2007 Worlds	10		Penny Clark
11		2007 Worlds	11		Sarah Steyaert
12		2007 Worlds	12		Sarah Blanck
13		2007 Worlds	13		Evi Van Acker
14		2007 Worlds	14		Larissa Nevierov
15		2007 Worlds	18		Lisa Ross
—		2007 Worlds	20
16		2007 Worlds	21		Gintarė Volungevičiūtė
17		2007 Worlds	24		Nathalie Brugger
18		2007 Worlds	27		Cathrine Gjerpen
19		2007 Worlds	34		Cecilia Carranza
20		2008 Worlds	8
21		2008 Worlds	19		Lo Man Yi
22		2008 Worlds	21		Susana Romero
23		2008 Worlds	25		Efi Mantzaraki
24		2008 Worlds	27		Mateja Petronijević
25		2008 Worlds	29		Ciara Peelo
26		2008 Worlds	30		Anastasiya Chernova
27		2008 Worlds	58		Paloma Schmidt
28		Tripartite			Florencia Cerutti

Two-person dinghy – 470

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Wen Yimei Yu Chunyan
		2007 Worlds	1		Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout
		2007 Worlds	2		Ingrid Petitjean Gwendolyn Lemaitre
		2007 Worlds	3		Christina Bassadone Saskia Clark
		2007 Worlds	4		Ai Kondo Naoko Kamata
		2007 Worlds	5		Therese Torgersson Vendela Zachrisson-Santén
		2007 Worlds	6		Giulia Conti Giovanna Micol
		2007 Worlds	7		Fernanda Oliveira Isabel Swan
		2007 Worlds	8		Nike Kornecki Vered Buskila
10		2007 Worlds	10		Amanda Clark Sara Mergenthaler
11		2007 Worlds	12		Vesna Dekleva Klara Maučec
12		2007 Worlds	14		Stefanie Rothweiler Vivien Kussatz
—		2007 Worlds	15
13		2007 Worlds	18		Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson
14		2008 Worlds	6		Sylvia Vogl Carolina Flatscher
15		2008 Worlds	9		María Fernanda Sesto Consuelo Monsegur
16		2008 Worlds	14		Natalia Vía Dufresne Laia Tutzó
17		2008 Worlds	21		Emmanuelle Rol Anne-Sophie Thilo
18		2008 Worlds	22		Lenka Šmídová Lenka Mrzílková
19		2008 Worlds	39		Toh Liying Deborah Ong

Keelboat – Yngling

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Song Xiaqun Yu Yanli Li Xiaoni
		2007 Worlds	1
		2007 Worlds	2		Sally Barkow Carrie Howe Deborah Capozzi
		2007 Worlds	4		Mandy Mulder Annemieke Bes Merel Witteveen
		2007 Worlds	5		Ekaterina Skudina Diana Krutskikh Natalia Ivanova
—		2007 Worlds	6
		2007 Worlds	7		Monica Azón Sandra Azón Graciela Pisonero
		2007 Worlds	8		Ulrike Schümann Julia Bleck Ute Höpfner
		2007 Worlds	10		Krystal Weir Karyn Gojnich Angela Farrell
		2007 Worlds	11		Silja Lehtinen Maria Klemetz Livia Varesmaa
10		2007 Worlds	12		Dominique Provoyeur Kim Rew Penny Alison
11		2008 Worlds	6		Anne le Helley Catherine Lepesant Julie Gerecht
12		2008 Worlds	10		Siren Sundby Lise Birgitte Fredriksen Alexandra Koefoed
13		2008 Worlds	14		Sofia Bekatorou Sofia Papadopoulou Virginia Kravarioti
14		2008 Worlds	19		Chiara Calligaris Francesca Scognamillo Giulia Pignolo
15		2008 Worlds	23		Jennifer Provan Martha Henderson Katie Abbott

Open events

Heavyweight one-person dinghy – Finn

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Zhang Peng
		2007 Worlds	1		Rafael Trujillo
		2007 Worlds	2		Pieter-Jan Postma
		2007 Worlds	3		Gašper Vinčec
		2007 Worlds	4		Jonas Høgh-Christensen
		2007 Worlds	5		Aimilios Papathanasiou
		2007 Worlds	6		Ben Ainslie
		2007 Worlds	7		Christopher Cook
		2007 Worlds	8		Daniel Birgmark
10		2007 Worlds	9		Ivan Kljaković Gašpić
11		2007 Worlds	10		Anthony Nossiter
12		2007 Worlds	12		Tapio Nirkko
13		2007 Worlds	13		Guillaume Florent
14		2007 Worlds	16		Dan Slater
15		2007 Worlds	17		Rafał Szukiel
16		2007 Worlds	19		Zach Railey
17		2007 Worlds	20		Michael Maier
18		2007 Worlds	23		Eduardo Couto
19		2007 Worlds	25		Tim Goodbody
20		2007 Worlds	26		Peer Moberg
21		2008 Worlds	19		Giorgio Poggi
22		2008 Worlds	25		Eduard Skornyakov
23		2008 Worlds	29		Haris Papadopoulos
—		2008 Worlds	32
—		2008 Worlds	33
24		2008 Worlds	39		Ali Kemal Tüfekçi
25		2008 Worlds	52		Nachhatar Singh Johal
26		2008 Worlds	53		Jhonny Bilbao

Skiff – 49er

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Li Fei Hu Xianqiang
		2007 Worlds	1		Stevie Morrison Ben Rhodes
		2007 Worlds	2		Nico Delle-Karth Nikolaus Resch
		2007 Worlds	3		Nathan Outteridge Ben Austin
		2007 Worlds	4		Pietro Sibello Gianfranco Sibello
		2007 Worlds	5		Tim Wadlow Chris Rast
		2007 Worlds	6		Iker Martínez Xabier Fernández
		2007 Worlds	7		Emmanuel Dyen Yann Rocherieux
		2007 Worlds	8		Jonas Warrer Martin Kirketerp Ibsen
10		2007 Worlds	11		Jan Peter Peckolt Hannes Peckolt
11		2007 Worlds	14		Rodion Luka George Leonchuk
12		2007 Worlds	17		Marcin Czajkowski Krzysztof Kierkowski
13		2007 Worlds	18		Jorge Lima Francisco Andrade
14		2007 Worlds	19		Gordon Cook Ben Remocker
15		2008 Worlds	11		André Fonseca Rodrigo Duarte
16		2008 Worlds	17		Christopher Gundersen Frode Bovim
17		2008 Worlds	25		Jonas Lindberg Kalle Torlén
18		2008 Worlds	27		Akira Ishibashi Yukio Makino
19		2008 Worlds	29		Pavle Kostov Petar Cupać

Multihull – Tornado

	Nation	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
		Host Country			Luo Youjia Chen Xiuke
		2007 Worlds	1		Fernando Echávarri Antón Paz
		2007 Worlds	2		Carolijn Brouwer Sébastien Godefroid
		2007 Worlds	3		Mitch Booth Pim Nieuwenhuis
		2007 Worlds	4		Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby
		2007 Worlds	5		Leigh McMillan Will Howden
		2007 Worlds	6		Xavier Revil Christophe Espagnon
		2007 Worlds	7		Iordanis Paschalidis Konstantinos Trigonis
		2007 Worlds	10		John Lovell Charlie Ogletree
10		2007 Worlds	11		Francesco Marcolini Edoardo Bianchi
11		2007 Worlds	13		Johannes Polgar Florian Spalteholz
12		2007 Worlds	14		Santiago Lange Carlos Espínola
13		2008 Worlds	2		Oskar Johansson Kevin Stittle
14		2008 Worlds	11		Roman Hagara Hans Peter Steinacher
—		2008 Worlds	12
15		2008 Worlds	16		Pavlo Kalynchev Andriy Shafranyuk

References

• ISAF - Nations Qualified