Sailing at the Island Games explained

Sailing is an event at the Island Games, the biennial multi-sports event for island nations, territories and dependencies.

Sailing at the Island Games was first introduced as a sport in 1995.

Sailboarding (or as it is sometimes called Windsurfing, which was only invented in 1948), started earlier, in 1993.

All the participants in the Games are surrounded by water (except Gibraltar), so water sports are attractive.

• Sailing ^[1]

- ILCA 7 Laser Standard Rig - A maximum of 2 entries per Member Island.

- ILCA 6 Laser Radial Rig - A maximum of 2 entries per Member Island.

- The team positions shall be calculated by adding the points of each team’s best three places for each race sailed (this is not necessarily the same 3 sailors in each race).

- Age - minimum 13

• Sailboarding ^[1]

- A maximum of 4 entries per Member Island.

- The team positions shall be calculated by adding the points of each team’s best three places for each race sailed (this is not necessarily the same 3 sailors in each race).

- Age - minimum 13

Events

Event															XIX 2023
		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X
			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X
Sailing Team					X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X
	X	X	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Sailboarding Team	X	X	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Top Medalists

	Gold Medals		Total Medals
	No:	Team	No:	Team
Sailing	9 6	Ynys Môn	16 15	Ynys Môn
Sailboarding	7 5		21 13

Sailing

Sailing Laser Standard Rig

Year	Games	Host
			Gold	Silver	Bronze
1995	VI	Gibraltar
1997	VII
1999	VIII
2001	IX
2003	X
2005	XI		Bermuda
2007	align=center	XII		Ynys Môn		Menorca
2009	align=center.	XIII			Ynys Môn^[2]
2011	XIV		Ynys Môn	Ynys Môn
2013	XV	Bermuda	Eifion Mon	Niklas Areschoug	Dyfrig Mon
2015	XVI		Eifion Mon Ynys Môn^[3]	Harry Blowers	Kalin Hillier Bermuda
2019	XVIII	Gibraltar^[4]	Dominic Breen-Turner		Peeter Kaju
2023	XIX			Dominic Breen-Turner

Sailing Laser Radial Rig

Year	Games	Host
			Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997	VII
1999	VIII				^[5]
2001	IX
2003	X
2005	XI		Bermuda
2007	XII			Bermuda	Menorca
2009	XIII
2011	XIV				Bermuda
2013	XV	Bermuda	Markus Rönnberg	Bleddyn Mon	Kalin Hillier
2015	XVI		Benjamin Todd Ynys Môn	Kristo Õunap	Milio Schauman
2019	XVIII	Gibraltar		Silver Vahstein	Daniel Rüütel
2023	XIX		^[6]

Sailing Team

Year	Games	Host
			Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001	IX
2003	X
2005	XI			Bermuda
2007	XII				Menorca
2009	XIII		Bermuda		Menorca
2011	XIV		Ynys Môn		Bermuda
2013	XV	Bermuda	Ynys Môn	Bermuda
2015	XVI		Ynys Môn
2019	XVIII	Gibraltar			Bermuda
2023	XIX

Sailboarding

	Gold Medals		Total Medals
	No:	Team	No:	Team
Individual	3 3		12 7	Menorca
Team	4 2 2		9 6 4

Sailboarding Individual

Year	Games	Host
			Gold	Silver	Bronze
1993	V
1995	VI	Gibraltar
1997	VII
2003	X
2005	XI
2007	XII		Menorca	Menorca	Menorca
2009	XIII		Menorca	Menorca	Menorca
2011	XIV		Menorca		Bermuda
2013	XV	Bermuda	Andrew Petts ^[7]	Pierre le Page	Alex Jones
2015	XVI		Stephen Pertegas Melia	David Kendell	Jo Robinson

Sailboarding Team Event

Year	Games	Host
			Gold	Silver	Bronze
1993	V
1995	VI	Gibraltar
1997	VII
2003	X
2005	XI
2007	XII		Menorca
2009	XIII
2011	XIV		Bermuda
2013	XV	Bermuda		not awarded	not awarded
2015	XVI

Notes and References

1. Web site: IIGA bylaws . IIGA.
2. Web site: Sailing Medals at the Island Games . outdoorpartnership.co.uk.
3. Web site: Island Games: Ynys Mon claim five gold medals and five bronze . Daily Post . 23 Jul 2015.
4. https://www.iiga.org/games_profile_616422.html NatWest Island Games XVIII Gibraltar 2019
5. Web site: Sailing/Sailboarding.
6. Web site: 2023 Island Games: Guernsey's Andrew Bridgman wins sailing gold . 13 July 2023.
7. Web site: Andy wins GOLD at Island Games . caymanwindsurfing.com . 24 Aug 2015.