Global InformationList of Olympic venues in sailing information
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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
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 25 yd (23 m) from his capsized boat.[4] Lemieux abandoned his position and rescued Chan and Chan's Singapore teammate.[4][5] 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.[6][7] Lemieux would be awarded the IOC Pierre de Coubertin medal at the Finn medal awards ceremony by President Juan Antonio Samaranch.[5]
The 1992 Summer Olympic venue was noted for its numerous complaints from the sailors over the debris found at the Olympic Harbor.[8] Among the items found were dead rats and floating refrigerators.[8] 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.[8] 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.[8] Six boardsailers passed Gebhardt before he could dislodge the plastic bag.[8] Gebhardt lost out a gold by 0.4 points over France's Franck David.[8][9]
| Games | Venue | Other sports at venues for those games | Capacity | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 Paris | Le Havre | None | Not listed. | [10] |
| Meulan-en-Yvelines | None | Not listed. | [11] | |
| 1908 London | Solent | None | Not listed. | [12] |
| Southampton Water | Water motosports | Not listed. | [13] | |
| 1912 Stockholm | Nynäshamn | None | Not listed. | [14] |
| 1920 Antwerp | Buiten Y (12 foot dinghy) | None | Not listed. | [1] |
| Ostend | Polo | Not listed. | [15][16] | |
| 1924 Paris | Le Havre | None | 541 | [17] |
| Meulan-en-Yvelines | None | 389 | [18] | |
| 1928 Amsterdam | Buiten Y | None | 2,263 | [19] |
| Zuiderzee | None | 2,263 | [19] | |
| 1932 Los Angeles | Los Angeles Harbor | None | Not listed. | [20] |
| 1936 Berlin | Kiel Bay | None | Not listed. | [21] |
| 1948 London | Torbay | None | Not listed. | [22] |
| 1952 Helsinki | Harmaja | None | Not listed. | [23] |
| Liuskasaari | None | 19,000 | [23] | |
| 1956 Melbourne | Port Phillip | None | Not listed | [24] |
| 1960 Rome | Gulf of Naples | None | Not listed. | [25][26] |
| 1964 Tokyo | Enoshima | None | Not listed. | [27] |
| 1968 Mexico City | Club de Yates de Acapulco | None | Not listed. | [2] |
| 1972 Munich | Bay of Kiel | None | 4,000 on 14 steamers who wanted to watch the action. | [28] |
| 1976 Montreal | Portsmouth Olympic Harbour | None | Not listed | [3] |
| 1980 Moscow | Olympic Regatta in Tallinn | None | Not listed | [29] |
| 1984 Los Angeles | Long Beach Shoreline Marina | None | Not listed. | [30] |
| 1988 Seoul | Busan Yachting Center | None | 80 | [31] |
| 1992 Barcelona | Olympic Harbour | None | Not listed. | [32] |
| 1996 Atlanta | Wassaw Sound | None | 1,000 | [33][34] |
| 2000 Sydney | Olympic Sailing Shore Base | None | 10,000 | [35] |
| 2004 Athens | Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre | None | 8,000 | [36] |
| 2008 Beijing | Qingdao International Sailing Centre | None | A ticketed area was created for the first time in sailing on the breakwater of the marina. | [37] |
| 2012 London | Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy | None | A ticketed spectator area was created away from the marina at Nothe Fort with a capacity of 5000 people. | [38] |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Marina da Glória | None | 10,000 | [39] |
| 2020 Tokyo | Enoshima | None | 10,000 | |
| 2024 Paris | Old Port of Marseille | None | 5,000 | |
| 2028 Los Angeles | Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier | None | 6,000 | |
| 2032 Brisbane | Manly Boat Harbour | None | 10,000 |
- ^ a b Sports-Reference.com 1920 Summer Olympics sailing mixed 12-foot results..
- ^ a b 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 76. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ a b 1976 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 216-225. Accessed 14 November 2010.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b "Lemieux's sportsmanship still recognized". Canada.com 13 March 2008 Edmonton Journal article accessed 2 December 2010.
- ^ 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 2. p. 692. Accessed 2 December 2010.
- ^ Sports-reference.com 1988 Summer Olympics sailing mixed-one-person-dinghy (Finn) class 24 September Race Five results. Accessed 2 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f 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.
- ^ 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 5. pp. 478–80. Accessed 7 December 2010.
- ^ 1900 Summer Olympics official report. p. 16. Accessed 14 November 2010. (in French)
- ^ Sports-reference.com Summer Olympics Paris 20 May 1900 sailing mixed open results. Accessed 14 November 2010.
- ^ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. p. 339. Accessed 5 October 2010.
- ^ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. p. 351. Accessed 5 October 2010.
- ^ 1912 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 224-5. Accessed 5 October 2010.
- ^ Sports-reference.com 1920 Summer Olympics polo.
- ^ Sports-reference.com 1920 Summer Olympics sailing.
- ^ 1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 584, 587. (in French)
- ^ 1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 582-3, 587. (in French)
- ^ a b 1928 Summer Olympics official report, featuring map of the Buiten IJ. Archived 2008-04-08 at the Wayback Machine pp. 271-2, 274.
- ^ 1932 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 76, 78, 585.
- ^ 1936 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 1031-8. Accessed 17 October 2010.
- ^ 1948 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine p. 50. Accessed 19 October 2010.
- ^ a b 1952 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine p. 58. Accessed 21 October 2010.
- ^ 1956 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine pp. 46-7. Accessed 25 October 2010.
- ^ 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 86. Accessed 28 October 2010.
- ^ 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 963-1023. Accessed 28 October 2010.
- ^ 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 115. Accessed 31 October 2010.
- ^ 1972 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 162-7, 209-11. Accessed 8 November 2010.
- ^ 1980 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 241-58. Accessed 18 November 2010.
- ^ 1984 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 156-60. Accessed 24 November 2010.
- ^ 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 190-1. Accessed 1 December 2010.
- ^ 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 255-8. Accessed 6 December 2010.
- ^ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 544. Accessed 9 December 2010.
- ^ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. p. 467. Accessed 9 December 2010.
- ^ 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 379. Accessed 17 December 2010.
- ^ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. p. 379. Accessed 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-08-10. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- ^ London2012.com profile of Weymouth and Portland. Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Marina da Glória", Rio de Janeiro 2016 Candidate File (PDF), vol. 2, (BOC), February 16, 2009, pp. 86–89, archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2013, retrieved December 2, 2009.