ISAF confirms classes for 2016 Olympic games

ISAF confirms events for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition at 2011 ISAF Mid-Year Meeting in St Petersburg, Russia.
ISAF President Göran Petersson led the ISAF Council in more than three hours of debate and discussion before the ten events were decided. Over 50 Submissions were received for consideration following the changes to the process for selecting events and equipment that was agreed in November 2010.
The ten events selected by the ISAF Council for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition are:

• Men’s Board or Kiteboard - evaluation
• Women’s Board or Kiteboard - evaluation
• Men’s One Person Dinghy - Laser
• Women’s One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial
• Men’s 2nd One Person Dinghy - Finn
• Men’s Skiff - 49er
• Women’s Skiff – Evaluation
• Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470
• Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470
• Mixed Two Person Multihull - Evaluation

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