Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, ten events in sailing were contested. Races were held off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. Twenty-two nations won medals, of thirty available.

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sailboard (Mistral)	Nikolaos Kaklamanakis Greece (GRE)	Carlos Espinola Argentina (ARG)	Gal Fridman Israel (ISR)
Finn class	Mateusz Kusznierewicz Poland (POL)	Sébastien Godefroid Belgium (BEL)	Roy Heiner Netherlands (NED)
470 class	Ukraine (UKR) Yevhen Braslavets Ihor Matviyenko	Great Britain (GBR) John Merricks Ian Walker	Portugal (POR) Victor Rocha Nuno Barreto

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sailboard (Mistral)	Lee Lai Shan Hong Kong (HKG)	Barbara Kendall New Zealand (NZL)	Alessandra Sensini Italy (ITA)
Europe class	Kristine Roug Denmark (DEN)	Margriet Matthijsse Netherlands (NED)	Courtenay Becker-Dey United States (USA)
470 class	Spain (ESP) Begona Via Dufresne Theresa Zabell	Japan (JPN) Yumiko Shige Yurie Alicia Kinoshita	Ukraine (UKR) Olena Pakholchik Ruslana Taran

[edit] Open events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Laser class	Robert Scheidt Brazil (BRA)	Ben Ainslie Great Britain (GBR)	Peer Moberg Norway (NOR)
Soling class	Germany (GER) Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel Jochen Schümann	Russia (RUS) Gueorgi Shayduko Igor Skalin Dmitriy Shabanov	United States (USA) Jim Barton Jeff Madrigali Kent Massey
Star class	Brazil (BRA) Torben Grael Marcelo Ferreira	Sweden (SWE) Hans Wallen Bobby Lohse	Australia (AUS) Colin Beashel David Giles
Tornado class	Spain (ESP) Jose Ballester Fernando Leon	Australia (AUS) Mitch Booth Andrew Landenberger	Brazil (BRA) Lars Grael Kiko Pellicano

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	2	0	1	3
2	Spain (ESP)	2	0	0	2
3	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
4	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	0	1
	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	0	2
10	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
12	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
18	United States (USA)	0	0	2	2
19	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1

[edit] References

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.

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