List of Olympic champions in sailing / medalists

Olympic champion sailing

Overview Medalist Medalists Medalists Open Classes statistics

This list is part of the list of Olympic champions in sailing . It lists all medal winners in the sailing competitions at the Summer Olympics, which are exclusively for men, broken down by boat type and class.

Single-handed dinghies

Used boat classes:

• Finn-Dinghy (since 1988, previously open class and additional 2008)
• Laser (since 2008, previously open class)

Finn dinghy

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1988	José Luis Doreste	Peter Holmberg	John Cutler
1992	José van der Ploeg	Brian Ledbetter	Craig Monk
1996	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	Sébastien Godefroid	Roy Heiner
2000	Iain Percy	Luca Devoti	Fredrik Lööf
2004	Ben Ainslie	Rafael Trujillo	Mateusz Kusznierewicz
2012	Ben Ainslie	Jonas Høgh-Christensen	Jonathan Lobert
2016	Giles Scott	Vasilij Žbogar	Caleb Paine

laser

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2008	Paul Goodison	Vasilij Žbogar	Diego Romero
2012	Tom Slingsby	Pavlos Kontides	Rasmus Myrgren
2016	Tom Burton	Tonči Stipanović	Sam Meech

Two-handed dinghies

Used boat classes:

• 470er (since 1988 - previously open class)
• 49er (since 2008 - previously open class)

49er

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2008	Denmark Jonas Warrer Martin Kirketerp	Spain Iker Martínez Xabier Fernández	Germany Jan-Peter Peckolt Hannes Peckolt
2012	Australia Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen	New Zealand Peter Burling Blair Tuke	Denmark Allan Nørregaard Peter Lang
2016	New Zealand Peter Burling Blair Tuke	Australia Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen	Germany Erik Heil Thomas Plößel

470s

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1988	France Thierry Peponnet Luc Pillot	Soviet Union Tõnu Tõniste Toomas Tõniste	United States Charles McKee John Shadden
1992	Spain Jordi Calafat Francisco Sánchez	United States Kevin Burnham Morgan Reeser	Estonia Tõnu Tõniste Toomas Tõniste
1996	Ukraine Jewhen Braslawez Ihor Matviyenko	United Kingdom John Merricks Ian Walker	Portugal Hugo Rocha Nuno Barreto
2000	Australia Tom King Mark Turnbull	United States Paul Foerster Robert Merrick	Argentina Javier Conte Juan de la Fuente
2004	United States Kevin Burnham Paul Foerster	United Kingdom Joe Glanfield Nick Rogers	Japan Kazuto Seki Kenjirō Todoroki
2008	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	United Kingdom Joe Glanfield Nick Rogers	France Nicolas Charbonnier Olivier building set
2012	Australia Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page	United Kingdom Luke Patience Stuart Bithell	Argentina Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente
2016	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	Australia Mathew Belcher William Ryan	Greece Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis

Keel boats

Used boat class:

• Star (since 2004, previously open class)

star

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2004	Brazil Marcelo Ferreira Torben Grael	Canada Ross MacDonald Mike Wolfs	France Pascal Rambeau Xavier Rohart
2008	United Kingdom Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	Brazil Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada	Sweden Fredrik Lööf Anders Ekström
2012	Sweden Fredrik Lööf Max Salminen	United Kingdom Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	Brazil Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada

Windsurfing

Used boat classes:

• Windglider (1984)
• Lechner A-390 (1988-1992)
• Mistral (1996-2004)
• RS: X (since 2008)

Wind glider

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1984	Stephan van den Berg	Scott Steele	Bruce Kendall

Lechner A-390

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1988	Bruce Kendall	Jan Boersma	Michael Gebhardt
1992	Franck David	Michael Gebhardt	Lars Kleppich

mistral

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1996	Nikolaos Kaklamanakis	Carlos Espínola	Gal Fridman
2000	Christoph Sieber	Carlos Espínola	Aaron McIntosh
2004	Gal Fridman	Nikolaos Kaklamanakis	Nick Dempsey

RS: X

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2008	Tom Ashley	Julien Bontemps	Shahar Zubari
2012	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	Nick Dempsey	Przemysław Miarczyński
2016	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	Nick Dempsey	Pierre Le Coq