Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification
Qualification rules
A nation may earn up to 1 boat in each of the 11 Sailing events.
Summary
Qualification Timeline
| Event |
Date |
Location |
| 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships |
Jun 28 - Jul 13, 2007 |
Cascais |
| 2008 49er World Championships |
January 2–9, 2008 |
Sydney |
| 2008 RS:X World Championships |
January 10–20, 2008 |
Auckland |
| 2008 Finn Gold Cup |
January 23–29, 2008 |
Melbourne |
| 2008 470 World Championships |
January 24–30, 2008 |
Melbourne |
| 2008 Laser World Championships |
February 7–13, 2008 |
Terrigal |
| 2008 Yngling World Championships |
February 10–15, 2008 |
Miami |
| 2008 Tornado World Championships |
Feb 25 - Mar 1, 2008 |
Auckland |
| 2008 Laser Radial World Championships |
March 15–20, 2008 |
Auckland |
| 2008 Star World Championships |
April 11–17, 2008 |
Miami |
Men's Windsurfer - RS:X
Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser
Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470
| # | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
| 1 | China | Host Country | | |
| 2 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Nick Rogers, Joe Glanfield |
| 3 | Netherlands | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Sven Coster, Kalle Coster |
| 4 | Israel | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Gideon Kliger, Udi Gal |
| 5 | Portugal | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Alvaro Marinho, Miguel Nunes |
| 6 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Nathan Wilmot, Malcolm Page |
| 7 | Croatia | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Sime Fantela, Igor Marinec |
| 8 | France | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Benjamin Bonnaud, Romain Bonnaud |
| 9 | Spain | 2007 Worlds | 9 | Onan Barreiros, Aaaron Sarmiento |
| 10 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 10 | Stuart McNay, Graham Biehl |
| 11 | Argentina | 2007 Worlds | 12 | Javier Conte, Juan de la Fuente |
| 12 | Belarus | 2007 Worlds | 14 | Sergei Desukevich, Pavel Logunov |
| 13 | Japan | 2007 Worlds | 15 | Kan Yamada, Kenichi Nakamura |
| 14 | Sweden | 2007 Worlds | 18 | Johan Molund, Niels Flohr |
| — | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 21 | Lukas Zellmer, Heiko Seelig |
| 15 | Slovenia | 2007 Worlds | 25 | Karlo Hmeljak, Mitja Nevecny |
| 16 | Greece | 2007 Worlds | 26 | Panagiotis Kampouridis, Gerasimos Orologas |
| 17 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 28 | Gabrio Zandonà, Andrea Trani |
| 18 | Canada | 2007 Worlds | 29 | Stephane Locas, Oliver Bone |
| 19 | South Korea | 2007 Worlds | 30 | Kim Chang-Ju, Kim Ji-Hoon |
| 20 | Singapore | 2007 Worlds | 31 | Roy Tay, Peiming Chung |
| 21 | Ireland | 2007 Worlds | 40 | Gerald Owens, Philip Lawton |
| 22 | New Zealand | 2008 Worlds | 11 | Carl Evans, Peter Burling |
| 23 | Russia | 2008 Worlds | 17 | Mikhail Sheremetiev, Maxim Sheremetiev |
| 24 | Poland | 2008 Worlds | 20 | Patryck Piasecki, Kacper Zieminski |
| 25 | Brazil | 2008 Worlds | 29 | Fabio Pillar, Samuel Albrecht |
| 26 | Switzerland | 2008 Worlds | 39 | Tobias Etter, Felix Steiger |
| 27 | Austria | 2008 Worlds | 46 | Matthias Schmid, Florian Reichstaedter |
| 28 | Turkey | 2008 Worlds | 55 | Deniz Cinar, Ates Cinar |
| 29 | Finland | 2008 Worlds | 58 | Joonas Lindgren, Niko Helander |
Men's Keelboat - Star
| # | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
| 1 | China | Host Country | | |
| 2 | Brazil | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Robert Scheidt, Bruno Prada |
| 3 | France | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Xavier Rohart, Pascal Rambeau |
| 4 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson |
| 5 | New Zealand | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Hamish Pepper, Carl Williams |
| 6 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Diego Negri, Luigi Viale |
| 7 | Poland | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Dominik Zycki |
| 8 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Marc Pickel, Ingo Borkowski |
| 9 | Sweden | 2007 Worlds | 8 | Fredrik Lööf, Anders Ekström |
| 10 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 9 | Iain Murray, Andrew Palfrey |
| 11 | Portugal | 2007 Worlds | 10 | Afonso Domingos, Bernardo Santos |
| 12 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 11 | Mark Reynolds, Hal Haenel |
| 13 | Switzerland | 2008 Worlds | 4 | Flavio Marazzi, Enrico De Maria |
| 14 | Croatia | 2008 Worlds | 12 | Marin Lovrovic, Sinsa Mikulicic |
| 15 | Ireland | 2008 Worlds | 14 | Max Treacy, Anthony Shanks |
| 16 | Austria | 2008 Worlds | 16 | Hans Spitzauer, Christian Nehammer |
Women's Windsurfer - RS:X
Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial
Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470
| # | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
| 1 | China | Host Country | | |
| 2 | Netherlands | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Marcelien De Koning, Lobke Berkhout |
| 3 | France | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Ingrid Petitjean, Nadege Douroux |
| 4 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Christina Bassadone, Saskia Clark |
| 5 | Japan | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Ai Kondo, Naoko Kamata |
| 6 | Sweden | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Therese Torgersson, Vendela Zachrisson |
| 7 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Giulia Conti, Giovanna Micol |
| 8 | Brazil | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Fernanda Oliveira, Isabel Swan |
| 9 | Israel | 2007 Worlds | 8 | Nike Kornecki, Vered Buskila |
| 10 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 10 | Erin Maxwell, Isabelle Kinsolving |
| 11 | Slovenia | 2007 Worlds | 12 | Vesna Dekleva Paoli, Klara Maucec |
| 12 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 14 | Stefanie Rothweiler, Vivien Kussatz |
| — | New Zealand | 2007 Worlds | 15 | Melinda Henshaw, Olivia Powrie |
| 13 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 18 | Elise Rechichi, Tessa Parkinson |
| 14 | Austria | 2008 Worlds | 6 | Sylvia Vogl, Carolina Flatscher |
| 15 | Argentina | 2008 Worlds | 9 | Sesto Fernanda, Monsegur Consuela |
| 16 | Spain | 2008 Worlds | 14 | Natalia Via-Dufresne, Laia Tutzo |
| 17 | Switzerland | 2008 Worlds | 21 | Emmanuelle Rol, Anne-Sophie Thilo |
| 18 | Czech Republic | 2008 Worlds | 22 | Lenka Smidova, Lenka Mrzilkova |
| 19 | Singapore* | 2008 Worlds | 39 | Toh Liying, Deborah Ong Hui Min |
Women's Keelboat - Yngling
| # | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
| 1 | China | Host Country | | |
| 2 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb, Pippa Wilson |
| 3 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Sally Barkow, Carrie Howe, Deborah Capozzi |
| 4 | Netherlands | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Mandy Mulder, Annemieke Bes, Flortje Hendriksen |
| 5 | Russia | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Ekaterina Skudina, Diana Krutskikh, Natalia Ivanova |
| — | New Zealand | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Sharon Ferris, Raynor Smeal, Shandy Buckley |
| 6 | Spain | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Monica Azon, Sandra Azón, Graciela Pisonero |
| 7 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 8 | Ulrike Schuemann, Julia Bleck, Ute Höpfner |
| 8 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 10 | Nicky Bethwaite, Karyn Gojnich, Angela Farrell |
| 9 | Finland | 2007 Worlds | 11 | Silja Lehtinen, Maria Klemetz, Livia Varesmaa |
| 10 | South Africa | 2007 Worlds | 12 | Dominique Provoyeur, Kim Rew, Penny Lynn |
| 11 | France | 2008 Worlds | 6 | Anne-Claire Le Berre, Marion Deplanque, Alice Ponsar |
| 12 | Norway | 2008 Worlds | 10 | Siren Sundby, Lise Fredriksen, Alexandra Koefoed |
| 13 | Greece | 2008 Worlds | 14 | Sofia Bekatorou, Sofia Papadopoulou, Christina Charamountani |
| 14 | Italy | 2008 Worlds | 19 | Chiara Calligaris, Francesca Scognamillo, Giulia Pignolo |
| 15 | Canada* | 2008 Worlds | 23 | Jennifer Provan, Martha Henderson, Katie Abbott |
Open Skiff - 49er
| # | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
| 1 | China | Host Country | | |
| 2 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Stevie Morrison, Ben Rhodes |
| 3 | Austria | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Nico Luca Ma Della Karth, Nicholas Leopold Resch |
| 4 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Nathan Outteridge, Ben Austin |
| 5 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Piero Sibello, Gianfranco Sibello |
| 6 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Morgan Larson, Pete Spaulding |
| 7 | Spain | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Federico Alonso, Arturo Alonso |
| 8 | France | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Morgan Lagraviere, Stephane Christidis |
| 9 | Denmark | 2007 Worlds | 8 | Jonas Warre, Martin Kirketep |
| 10 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 11 | Jan Peter Peckolt, Hannes Peckolt |
| 11 | Ukraine | 2007 Worlds | 14 | Rodion Luka, Georghy Leonchuk |
| 12 | Poland | 2007 Worlds | 17 | Marcin Czajkowski, Krzysztof Kierkowski |
| 13 | Portugal | 2007 Worlds | 18 | Jorge Lima, Francisco Andrade |
| 14 | Canada | 2007 Worlds | 19 | Gordon Cook, Ben Remoker |
| 15 | Brazil | 2008 Worlds | 11 | André Fonseca, Rodrigo Duarte |
| 16 | Norway | 2008 Worlds | 17 | Christopher Gundersen, Frode Bovim |
| 17 | Sweden | 2008 Worlds | 25 | Jonas Lindberg, Kalle Torlén |
| 18 | Japan | 2008 Worlds | 27 | Akira Ishibashi, Yukio Makino |
| 19 | Croatia | 2008 Worlds | 29 | Pavle Kostov, Petar Cupac |
Open Heavyweight Dinghy - Finn
Open Multihull - Tornado
| # | Nation | Qualification Tournament | Place in QT | Sailor |
| 1 | China | Host Country | | |
| 2 | Spain | 2007 Worlds | 1 | Fernando Echavarri, Anton Paz |
| 3 | Belgium | 2007 Worlds | 2 | Carolijn Brouwer, Sébastien Godefroid |
| 4 | Netherlands | 2007 Worlds | 3 | Mitch Booth, Pim Nieuwenhuis |
| 5 | Australia | 2007 Worlds | 4 | Darren Bundock, Glenn Ashby |
| 6 | Great Britain | 2007 Worlds | 5 | Leigh McMillan, WIll Howden |
| 7 | France | 2007 Worlds | 6 | Vavier Revil, Christophe Espagnon |
| 8 | Greece | 2007 Worlds | 7 | Iordanis Paschalidis, Konstantinos Trigonis |
| 9 | United States | 2007 Worlds | 10 | John Lovell, Charlie Ogletree |
| 10 | Italy | 2007 Worlds | 11 | Francesco Marcolini, Edoardo Bianchi |
| 11 | Germany | 2007 Worlds | 13 | Johannes Polgar, Florian Spalteholz |
| 12 | Argentina | 2007 Worlds | 14 | Santiago Raú Lange, Carlos Espínola |
| 13 | Canada | 2008 Worlds | 2 | Oskar Johansson, Kevin Stittle |
| 14 | Austria | 2008 Worlds | 11 | Roman Hagara, Hans Peter Steinacher |
| — | New Zealand | 2008 Worlds | 12 | Aaron McIntosh, Mark Kennedy |
| 15 | Ukraine | 2008 Worlds | 16 | Pavlo Kalynchev, Andrey Shaufranyuk |
* Nation invited via a Tripartate Commission Place or Unused Quota Place
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