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2016 RS:X Youth World Windsurfing Championships in Limassol, Cyprus reached to the end.
Final results and more information about the Event, please find here - http://www.rsxclass.org/youthworlds2016/
Congratulation to Katy and Yoav as the 2016 RS:X Youth World Champions!
The International RS:X Olympic Windsurfing Class Association, a step ahead of all Olympic Sailing Classes with its first Major event after the successful 2016 RIO Olympics, now looking forward to a week of exciting racing, where the Youths - the next generation, our future Windsurfing Olympic sailors from around the World take on the challenge in waters of the Eastern Mediterranean on this scheduled World Championship event at the Limassol Nautical Club on the island of Cyprus. All is set and ready for the upcoming races from the 21st through the 25th of November.
The Opening Ceremony took place on the 19th of November at the Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation – Carob Mill Limassol after a Flag parade with marching competitors trough the streets near the Limassol Marina.
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Dr. Panayiotis Kontides, President of the Organizing committee on behalf of Limaasol Nautical Club |
Dr. Michaelis Michaelides on behalf of Cyprus Sports Organization |
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Mr. Carlo Dalla Vedova, President of the International RS:X Olympic Windsurfing Class Association |
Mr. Andreas Christou, the Mayor of Limassol |
The evening continued with Traditional Cyprus dance performances and a cozy dinner for all invited guests.
The Numbers:
A total of 98 Sailors registered from 19 Countries and 5 Continents
The Defending Champions
Women Division:
NOY DRIHAN | ISR 20
Men Division:
YOAV OMER | ISR 24
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The Sailing World Cup Final, the climax of the international series of Olympic & Paralympic class racing, has been awarded to Santander, Spain in 2017 and to Kiel, Germany in 2018.
Santander hosted the most recent edition of the World Sailing Championships in 2014, attracting over 1,000 sailors and 400,000 spectators across two weeks of competition on the Bay of Biscay and the Bay of Santander. And Kiel, famous for hosting the internationally renowned Kieler-Woche regatta, is a regular stop on the Olympic circuit, welcoming world class sailors for a week-long festival of sailing which is combined with the largest summer festival in northern Europe.
The announcement of Santander and Kiel as future Sailing World Cup Final venues falls in line with the recent release of the vision for the World Cup series:
The Sailing World Cup Series will continue to showcase and develop Olympic Sailing, it will be a key part of a sailor’s Olympic campaign, integrate Para World Sailing, help create heroes and engage sailing sports fans, excite sponsors and broadcasters and conclude with a Final at which the winners in each event are crowned.
On the announcement, World Sailing President Carlo Croce expressed, “Both Santander and Kiel offer excellent sailing conditions and the opportunity to excite sailing with the public attending each event and through digital media.
“Both venues have the Sailing World Cup vision at their heart and will provide the world’s best sailors’ with a great opportunity to showcase our sport.”
The northern Spanish city will host the 2017 edition of the Sailing World Cup Final from 4 - 11 June, providing the climax to a shortened series that sees events take place in Miami, USA and Hyeres, France.
On the announcement that Santander will host the 2017 Sailing World Cup Final, Juan Dominguez Munaiz, Sports Councillor for the City of Santander commented, “It will be an honour and a new challenge for Santander to host the 2017 Sailing World Cup Final. The Municipality, along with the Government of Cantabria, the Royal Maritime Club of Santander and the Spanish Sailing Federation, we are going to work from now on to try to reach the success in organization and the involvement of the citizens that we accomplished in the 2014 Sailing World Championships.”
Kiel, in the north of Germany will host the 2018 Sailing World Cup Final during Kieler-Woche, the long running festival of sailing that attracts three-million visitors across the event.
Dirk Ramhorst, Event Chairman of Kieler Woche said, “It makes us proud that Kiel will host the 2018 Sailing World Cup Final. We are happy that our concept was compelling and that the content of our bid led to the decision. We are looking forward to proving the strength of our concept.
“The Sailing World Final in Kiel will be a pinnacle event in the world of sailing in between the Olympic Games of Rio and Tokyo. Our classes portfolio will showcase the Olympic Story from the youth via the ambitious amateurs to the top sailors of the world. That said, we are looking forward to welcoming the world of sailing and World Sailing in Kiel.”
2017 Sailing World Cup Series
Miami will host the first Round of the upcoming 2017 Series from 22-29 January 2017 with Hyeres, France following from 23-30 April 2017. The Sailing World Cup Final in Santander will conclude the shortened series from 4 - 11 June.
Rio 2016 Olympic medallists automatically qualify for the 2017 Sailing World Cup Final and they will be joined by winners of the Sailing World Cup Miami and Hyeres Rounds. For the remaining places, qualification to the Final will be based on combined results at the Sailing World Cup Rounds, with the highest placed finishers booking their spot on the start line.
2017 - 2020 Sailing World Cup series of events
After the shortened 2017 series, the Sailing World Cup series will run from October to July every year, incorporating three Rounds and the Final at the end of June / early July.
Japan will host a Sailing World Cup Round each October from 2017 through to 2019 before holding the Final in July 2020, just weeks before the Olympic Games.
2017/18: Gamagori, Japan (October 2017), Miami (January 2018), Hyeres (May 2018) + Kiel Final (June/July 2018)
2018/19: Enoshima, Japan (October 2018), Miami (January 2019), Europe Round (May-June) + TBC Final (June/July 2019)
2019/20: Enoshima, Japan (October 2019), Miami, (January 2020) Europe Round (May-June) + Enoshima, Japan Final (July 2020)
By Daniel Smith - World Sailing
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The President, Carlo Croce, with the support of all Board members, has decided, following his most recent communications with the IOC, that he, as President, shall not propose an alternative Olympic slate to Council in February 2017. This means that World Sailing would propose the existing 10 Events and Equipment for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition.
The decision was confirmed as a final decision also by the World Sailing General Assembly on 13th November 2016 in Barcelona, Spain during the World Sailing Annual Conference.
In addition, World Sailing will continue to pursue the possibility of an 11th Medal in 2020 with the IOC on the basis that the total number of athletes remains at 380. Furthermore, World Sailing is also exploring the possibility of a showcase sailing event in Tokyo which if agreed would be over and above the existing athlete quota. The Board believes this strategy best protects existing investments and programmes, whilst enabling World Sailing to demonstrate innovation to the IOC.
The Board will continue to support changes in format and fleet sizes to best meet the objectives of the IOC’s Agenda 2020. These decisions will be made in accordance with normal World Sailing processes.
Regarding gender equity, the IOC has confirmed that gender equity in 2020 may be assessed at a “sport level” (i.e. on the basis of total number of athletes in each sport). Hence World Sailing can meet IOC’s gender equity requirements in 2020 with appropriate fleet quota changes, within sailing’s current 10 Events and can seek to achieve gender equity at an event level by 2024.
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The new Olympic Channel has all 2016 Rio Olympic Games Sailing Medal Races available for reply.
Check it out here: https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/sports/sailing/
The Olympic Channel website an mobile application are managed an operated by Olympic Channel Services, S.L.
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