Optimist World Championship

Main article: Optimist (dinghy)

The Optimist World Championship is an annual World Championship sailing regatta in the Optimist class organised by the International Optimist Dinghy Association.

Events

See also: World championships in sailing

Event			Host			Participation					Ref.
Ed.	Dates	Year	Host club	Location	Country	No.			Nat.	Cont
01		1962			United Kingdom						[1]
02		1963			Sweden						[1]
03		1964			Denmark						[1]
04		1965			Finland						[1]
05		1966			United States						[1]
06		1967			France						[1]
07		1968			Austria						[1]
08		1969			Great Britain						[1]
09		1970			Spain						[1]
10		1971		Kiel	West Germany						[1]
11		1972		Karlskrona	Sweden						[1]
N/A		1973	NOT HELD
12		1974		St. Moritz/Silvaplana	Switzerland						[1][2]
13		1975		Aarhus	Denmark						[1][3]
14		1976		Ankara	Turkey						[1][4]
15		1977		Koper	Yugoslavia						[1][5][6]
16		1978		La Baule	France						[1][7]
17		1979		Pattaya	Thailand						[1][8]
18		1980		Cascais	Portugal						[1][9]
19	20–30 July	1981		Howth	Ireland						[1][10]
20		1982		Follonica	Italy						[11]
21	13–24 July	1983		Rio de Janeiro	Brazil						[12]
22	11–27 July	1984		Kingston	Canada						[13]
23	24 Jul – 4 Aug	1985		Helsinki	Finland						[14]
24	4–15 Aug	1986		Roses	Spain						[15]
25	25 July – 7 Aug	1987		Andijk	Netherlands						[16]
26	16–29 July	1988		La Rochelle	France						[17]
27		1989		Yokohama	Japan						[18]
28		1990		Cascais	Portugal						[19]
28		1991		Porto Carras	Greece						[20]
30	27Dec – 7Jan	1992/93		Mar del Plata	Argentina						[21]
31	12–24 July	1993		Ciutadella de Menorca	Spain						[22]
32		1994		Sardinia	Italy						[23]
33		1995		Mariehamn	Finland						[24]
34	15–26 Aug	1996		Langebaan	South Africa						[25]
35	26 Jul –8 Aug	1997		Carrickfergus	Northern Ireland						[26]
36		1998		Setúbal	Portugal						[27]
37	14–25 July	1999	Fort de France Bay	Les Trois Ilets - Martinique	France						[28][29]
38	17–30 July	2000		A Coruña	Spain						[30][31]
39	12–23 Jul	2001		Qingdao	China	208	171	37	44	6	[32]
40	3–14 Jul	2002	Corpus Christi Yacht Club	Corpus Christi	United States	208			46	6	[33][34]
41	23 Jul – 3 Aug	2003		Las Palmas	Spain	221			50	6	[35]
42	14–25 July	2004		Salinas	Ecuador	215			52	6	[36]
43	25 July – 5 August	2005		St. Moritz	Switzerland	241	201	40	52	6	[37]
44	29 Dec –9 Jan	2006/07	National Yacht Club of Uruguay	Montevideo	Uruguay	228			50	6	[38][39][40]
45	22 Jul –1 Aug	2007	Yacht Club Cagliari	Sardinia	Italy	251	209	42	55	6	[41][42]
46	14–25 July	2008		Çeşme	Turkey	250	204	46	53	6	[43][44][45][46]
47	4–15 Aug	2009		Niterói	Brazil	211	175	36	47	6	[47][48]
48	27Dec –7 Jan	2009/10		Langkawi	Malaysia						[49][50][51]
49	28–8 Jan	2011/12	Napier Sailing Club	Napier	New Zealand	210	172	38	48	6	[52][53][54][55]
50	15–26 July	2012	Club Nautico Santo Domingo	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	230	190	40	55	6	[56][57][58][59]
51	15–26 July	2013	Fraglia Vela Riva	Riva del Garda	Italy	257	214	43	58	6	[60][61][62]
52	22 Oct – 2 Nov	2014	Club Náutico San Isidro	Buenos Aires	Argentina	207	163	44	49	6	[63][64][65]
53	25 Aug –5 Sep	2015		Dziwnów	Poland	179	145	34	48	5	[66][67]
54	21 Jun –4 Jul	2016		Vilamoura	Portugal						[68]
55	11–21 July	2017	Royal Varuna Yacht Club	Pattaya	Thailand						[69][70][71]
56	29Aug –5 Sep	2018	Famagusta Nautical Club	Limassol	Cyprus						[72][73][74]
57	8–15 July	2019	Antigua Yacht Club	Antigua	Antigua and Barbuda						[75]
N/A	1-11 Jul	2020	Fraglia Vela Riva	Riva del Garda	Italy	CANCELLED DUE TO COVID					[76]
58	2–9 July	2021	Fraglia Vela Riva	Riva del Garda	Italy	259					[77][78]
59	29 June – 6 July	2022	Bodrum Sailing Club	Bodrum	Turkey	276					[79][80]
60	17–24 June	2023	Club Vela Ballena Alegre	Sant Pere Pescador	Spain	248					[81][82]
61	5–14 Dec	2024	Club Náutico Mar del Plata	Mar del Plata	Argentina						[83][84]

Medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1962 Great Britain	A. Quiding (SWE)
1963 Sweden	B. Baysen (SWE)
1964 Denmark	Poul Andersen (DEN)
1965 Finland	Ray Larsson (SWE)
1966 Miami	Doug Bull (USA)
1967 Austria	Peter Warrer (DEN)
1968 France	Peter Warrer (DEN)
1969 Great Britain	Doug Bull (USA)
1970 Spain	James Larimore (USA)
1971 Kiel	Heikki Vahtera (FIN)
1972 Karlskrona	Tomás Estela (ESP)
1973 Rhodesia	cancelled
1974 St. Moritz/Silvaplana	Martín Billoch (ARG)
1975 Aarhus	Hans Fester (DEN)	Söderström (SWE)	Martin Schröder (SWE)
1976 Ankara	Hans Wallén (SWE)	Asbjørn (DEN)	Lindsey (USA)
1977 Koper	Patrik Mark (SWE)	Mads Damsgaard (DEN)	Evers (DEN)
1978 La Baule	Rickard Hammarvid (SWE)	von Koskull (FIN)	Patrik Mark (SWE)
1979 Pattaya	Johan Peterson (SWE)	Heiskanen (FIN)	Storgaard (DEN)
1980 Cascais	Johan Peterson (SWE)	Rasmus Damsgaard (DEN)	Heiskanen (FIN)
1981 Howth	Guido Tavelli (ARG)	Johan Peterson (SWE)	Edson Araujo (BRA)
1982 Follonica	Njaal Sletten (NOR)	Christian Rasmussen (DEN)	Søren Ebdrup (DEN)
1983 Rio de Janeiro	Jordi Calafat (ESP)	José Carlos Frau (ESP)	Jean-Pierre Becquet (FRA)	[85]
1984 Kingston	Serge Kats (NED)	Jussi Wikström (FIN)	Xavier García (ESP)
1985 Helsinki	Serge Kats (NED)	Risto Tapper (FIN)	Martín Castrillo (ARG)
1986 Roses	Xavier García (ESP)	Luis Martínez (ESP)	Risto Tapper (FIN)
1987 Andijk	Sabrina Landi (ITA)	Luis Martínez (ESP)	Anders Jonsson (SWE)
1988 La Rochelle	Ugo Vanello (ITA)	Luis Martínez (ESP)	Gabriel Tarrasa (ESP)
1989 Yokohama	Peder Rønholt (DEN)	Rami Koskinen (FIN)	Herman Rosso (ARG)
1990 Portugal	Martín di Pinto (ARG)	Agustín Krevisky (ARG)	Martin Strandberg (SWE)
1991 Porto Carras	Agustín Krevisky (ARG)	Asdrubal García (ARG)	Andre Sørensen (DEN)
1992 Mar del Plata	Ramón Oliden (ARG)	Marc Patiño (ESP)	Mike Keser (GER)
1993 Ciutadella de Menorca	Mats Hellman (NED)	Estebán Rocha (ARG)	Claudia Tosi (ITA)
1994 Sardinia	Martín Jenkins (ARG)	Federico Pérez (ARG)	Julio Alsogaray (ARG)
1995 Mariehamn	Martín Jenkins (ARG)	Frederico Rizzo (BRA)	Dario Kliba (CRO)
1996 Langebaan	Lisa Westerhof (NED)	Aron Lolić (CRO)	Ivan Bertaglia (ITA)
1997 Carrickfergus	Luca Bursic (ITA)	Matías Bühler (ARG)	Nicholas Raygada (PER)
1998 Setúbal	Mattia Pressich (ITA)	Fernando Gwozdz (ARG)	Šime Fantela (CRO)
1999 Martinique	Mattia Pressich (ITA)	Tonči Stipanović (CRO)	Mario Coutinho (POR)
2000 A Coruña	Šime Fantela (CRO)	Lucas Calabrese (ARG)	Jaro Furlani (ITA)	[46]
2001 Qingdao	Lucas Calabrese (ARG)	Zhu Ye (CHN)	Abdul Rahim (MAS)	[46]
2002 Corpus Christi	Filip Matika (CRO)	Stjepan Ćesić (CRO)	Eduardo Zalvide (ESP)	[46]
2003 Las Palmas	Filip Matika (CRO)	Jesse Kirkland (BER)	Sebastián Peri Brusa (ARG)	[46]
2004 Salinas	Wei Ni (CHN)	Paul Snow-Hansen (NZL)	Eugenio Díaz (ESP)	[46]
2005 St. Moritz	Tina Lutz (GER)	Matthew Schoener Scott (TRI)	Wu Jianan (CHN)	[46]
2006 Montevideo	Julian Autenrieth (GER)	Griselda Khng (SIN)	Édgar Diminich (ECU)	[46]
2007 Sardinia	Chris Steele (NZL)	Benjamín Grez (CHI)	Alex Maloney (NZL)	[46]
2008 Çeşme	Raúl Ríos (PUR)	Ian Barrows (ISV)	Kristien Kirketerp (DEN)	[46]
2009 Niterói	Sinclair Jones (PER)	Faizal Norizan (MAS)	Ignacio Rogala (ARG)	[48]
2010 Langkawi	Noppakao Poonpat (THA)	Ahmad Syukri Abdul Aziz (MAS)	Keiju Okada (JPN)
2011 Napier	Kimberly Lim (SIN)	Bart Lambriex (NED)	Javier Arribas (PER)
2012	Elisa Yukie Yokoyama (SIN)	Samuel Neo (SIN)	Jessica Goh (SIN)	[58]
2013 Riva del Garda	Loh Jia Yi (SIN)	Nils Sternbeck (GER)	Edward Tan (SIN)	[61]
2014 San Isidro	Nicolas Rolaz (SUI)	Voravong Rachrattanaruk (THA)	Dimitris Papadimitriou (GRE)	[64]
2015 Dziwnów	Rok Verderber  (SLO)	Jodie Lai (SIN)	Mathias Berthet (NOR)	[67]
2016 Vilamoura	Max Wallenberg  (SUI)	Mathias Berthet (NOR)	Fauzi Kaman Shah (MAS)
2017 Pattaya	Marco Gradoni (ITA)	Fauzi Kaman Shah (MAS)	Mic Sig Kos Mohr (CRC)	[71]
2018 Limassol	Marco Gradoni (ITA)	Stephan Baker (USA)	Panwa Boonnak (THA)	[73]
2019 Antigua	Marco Gradoni (ITA)	Richard Schultheis (MLT)	Jaime Ayarza (ESP)	[74]
2020 Riva del Garda	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[76]
2021 Riva del Garda	Alex Di Francesco Kuhl (BRA)	Gil Hackel (USA)	Alex Demurtas (ITA)	[78]
2022 Bodrum	Weka Bhanubandh (THA)	James Pine (USA)	Francesco Carrieri (ITA)	[80]
2023 Sant Pere Pescador	Henric Wigforss (SWE)	Travis Greenberg (USA)	Wylder Smith (USA)	[82]
2024 Mar del Plata	Iason Panagopoulos (GRE)	Arthur Back (BRA)	Mateo Carbonell (ESP)	[84]

Medalists Team Racing

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983	France
1984	Denmark
1985	Sweden
1986	France
1987	Spain
1988	Spain
1989	Denmark
1990	Argentina
1991	Brazil
1992	Italy
1993	Argentina
1994	Argentina
1995	Spain
1996	Argentina
1997	Peru
1998	Peru
1999	Peru
2000	Argentina	Brazil	Croatia	[86]
2001	Argentina
2002	Argentina
2003	Argentina			[87]
2004	Poland
2005	Argentina
2006	Singapore
2007	Greece
2008	Puerto Rico
2009	China
2010	Thailand
2011	Singapore
2012	Singapore	United States	Netherlands	[88]
2013	Singapore
2014	Thailand
2015	Singapore
2016	United States	Germany	Singapore
2017	United States
2018	Thailand
2019	Italy
2020	Cancelled COVID
2021	Italy
2022	United States
2023	Italy
2024	Spain	Singapore	Puerto Rico

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