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Sailing At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification
This article details the qualifying phase for sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 312 quota places for the Games are entitled to the sailors coming from their respective NOCs, based on the results at designated regattas supervised by World Sailing. Host nation France reserves a single boat in each of the ten sailing classes, whereas four quota places (two per gender) are distributed to the NOCs competing in the men's singlehander ILCA 7 and women's singlehander ILCA 6 under the Tripartite Commission. The qualification period commenced at the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, where 107 places, about forty percent of the total quota, will be awarded to the highest-ranked NOCs across ten different sailing classes. Subsequently, each class will award one quota place at their respective continental championship regattas (Africa, Asia, Central & South America, Europe, North America & Caribbean, and Oceania) with the exception of the ILCA classes, which will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Sailing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics were held from July 28th to August 8th at Marseille Marina. The number of sailors competing across ten different events at these Games has been reduced from 350 to 330, with an equal distribution between men and women. Furthermore, several significant changes are instituted in the sailing program for Paris 2024 to reinforce gender equality and vast diversity among the nations in the qualifying process. Medal events and equipment * For the Men's Single-handed Dinghy event, the equipment will be the ILCA 7 * For the Women's Single-handed Dinghy event, the equipment will be the ILCA 6 * For the Mixed Double-handed Dinghy event, the equipment will be the 470 * For the Mixed Foiling Catamaran event, the equipment will be the Nacra 17 * For the Men's Skiff event, the equipment will be the 49er * For the Women's Skiff event, the equipment will be the 49erFX * For the Men's Windsurfer event, the equipment will be the IQFoil. * For the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ningbo
Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis. The port of Ningbo–Zhoushan, spread across several locations, is the world's busiest port by cargo tonnage and world's third- busiest container port since 2010. Ningbo is the core city and center of the Ningbo Metropolitan Area. To the north, Hangzhou Bay separates Ningbo from Shanghai; to the east lies Zhoushan in the East China Sea; on the west and south, Ningbo borders Shaoxing and Taizhou respectively. As of the 2020 Chinese national census, the entire administrated area of Ningbo City had a population of 9.4 million (9,404,283). Ningbo is one of the 15 sub-provincial cities in China, and is one of the five separate state-planning cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semaine Olympique Française
The Semaine Olympique Française () is a sailing regatta organised in Hyères by the French Sailing Federation, whose 2023 edition is the 54th edition and open to women's ILCA 6, men's ILCA 7, mixed 470, men's 49er, women's 49er FX, mixed Nacra 17, men's and women's IQFoil, and men's and women's Formula Kite. In 2014, the Semaine Olympique Française in Hyères became an event in the Sailing World Cup, and a regatta in La Rochelle took the name, Semaine Olympique Française La Rochelle. It is considered a major regatta by the Finn class and a spring classic by French newspaper ''L'Équipe''. Together with the Trofeo Princesa Sofía, Allianz Regatta, and Kiel Week The Kiel Week () or Kiel Regatta is an annual sailing event in Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is considered to be one of the largest sailing events globally, and also the largest summer festivals in Northern Europe, ... regattas, Semaine Olympique Française is part of the Sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algarrobo, Chile
Algarrobo () is a Chilean List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune in San Antonio Province, Valparaíso Region. Located on the country's central coast, it is a popular summer resort for the population of Santiago, Chile, Santiago. It is an upscale community near El Quisco and Valparaíso. The San Alfonso del Mar resort, located north of the city, is home to the world's largest outdoor pool.Big Dipper, National Geographic Magazine, April 2010, Technology, page 30 Islote Pájaros Niños is a nature sanctuary on a rocky islet close to the shore, which is home to colonies of Humboldt penguins, Peruvian pelicans, and Guanay cormorants.BirdLife International (2023Important Bird Areas factsheet: Isla Pájaro Niño de Algarrobo Retrieved 24 April 2023. Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute (Chile), National Statistics Institute, Algarrobo spans an area of and has 8,601 inhabitants (4,369 men and 4,232 women). Of these, 6,628 (7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing At The 2023 Pan American Games
Sailing (sport), Sailing competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile are schedule to take place between October 28 and November 5, 2023 at the Cofradia Nautica del Pacifico (''Nautical Brotherhood of the Pacific'' in English) in the city of Algarrobo, Chile, Algarrobo. A total of 13 events will be contested, an increase of two from the 2019 Pan American Games. The Sunfish (sailboat), sunfish event has been split in two, to have an event each for men and women. Also, the Formula Kite, kites event was split in two, with the men and women now competing in separate events. The RS:X boat has also been replaced with the IQFoil. A total of 172 sailors (82 men and 90 women) are scheduled to compete. The top two placing athletes (not already qualified) from North America and South America in the men's laser and women's laser radial, qualified for the Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics, sailing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France (with the sailing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanzarote
Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands, off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With 163,230 inhabitants at the beginning of 2024, it is the third most populous Canary Island, after Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Located in the centre-west of the island is Timanfaya National Park, one of its main attractions. The island was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1993. The island's capital is Arrecife, which lies on the eastern coastline. It is the smaller main island of the Province of Las Palmas. The first recorded name for the island, given by Italian-Majorcan cartographer Angelino Dulcert, was ''Insula de Lanzarotus Marocelus'', after the Genoa, Genoese navigator Lancelotto Malocello, from which the modern name is derived. The island's name in the native Guanche language was ''Tyterogaka'' or ''Tytheroygaka'', which may mean "one that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
