With less than three months left until the start, olympic competitioneach sport has finalized its representatives. paris 2024 One of them is sailing. Sailing is French Olympic week.
At Hyères, on France's Cote d'Azur, the final 50 spots were defined, divided into 10 classes. Debut women's and men's Formula Kite (kitesurfing), women's and men's IQFoil (windsurfing), ILCA 7, ILCA 6, 470, 49er, 49er FX and Nacra 17.
women's location formula kite went Switzerland, Poland, Turkey, Austria and Portugal competed, while the men's formula kite qualifiers were Britain, Poland, USA, Greece and Israel.
In women's IQ foil, tickets were sent to the Czech Republic, neutral individual athletes, Turkey, Sweden, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and Estonia. Meanwhile, the men's tickets were won by the United States, Greece, Japan, Lithuania, Hong Kong, China, Finland and Slovakia.
in dolphin 7, the qualifiers were South Korea, Estonia, Malaysia, and El Salvador.in dolphin 6 Romania, Cyprus, Slovenia and India were the winners. class 470 Italy, Slovenia, Greece and Türkiye were the winners.
Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Hong Kong and China qualify 49er class and in that 49erFX Poland, Germany, Finland, Japan, and the Czech Republic took classes.Finally, at Nakula 17 Tickets went to Denmark, Türkiye, Belgium, and Japan.
France, UK and Germany elect official representatives to Paris 2024
Between the World Championships held in The Hague last August and this year's French Olympic Week, 326 locations defined, 63 countries represented (In Tokyo, the number was 65), and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) tripartite committee has granted four universal quotas: two for the women's ILCA 6 pot and two for the men's ILCA 7 pot. This number is likely to increase due to the need for more.
In addition to France, which is the host country and thus has vessels of all classes, only two other countries have qualified for representation in each of the 10 specialties to be held in Paris 2024. Great Britain and Germany.
Great Britain tops the list with historic Olympic medal tally (Gold 31, Silver 21, Bronze 12) They also won at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with Australia and the Netherlands completing the podium.
Sailing first participated in the Olympic Games in 1900 in France on the Seine and the port of Le Havre. Performances in Marseille are guaranteed from July 28th to August 8th.
