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 the medal winners in the sailing competitions at the Summer Olympics, which are exclusively for women, broken down by boat type and class.

Single-handed dinghies

Used boat classes:

• Europe (1992-2004)
• Laser Radial (since 2008)

Europe

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1992	Linda Andersen	Natalia Vía Dufresne	Julia Trotman
1996	Kristine Roug	Margriet Matthijsse	Courtenay Becker-Dey
2000	Shirley Robertson	Margriet Matthijsse	Serena Amato
2004	Siren Sundby	Lenka Šmídová	Signe Livbjerg

Laser Radial

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2008	Anna Tunnicliffe	Gintarė Volungevičiūtė	Xu Lijia
2012	Xu Lijia	Marit Bouwmeester	Evi Van Acker
2016	Marit Bouwmeester	Annalize Murphy	Anne-Marie Rindom

Two-handed dinghies

Used boat classes:

• 470s (since 1988)
• 49erFX (since 2016)

470s

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1988	United States Allison Jolly Lynne Jewell	Sweden Marit Söderström Birgitta Bengtsson	Soviet Union Laryssa Moskalenko Iryna Tschunychowska
1992	Spain Theresa Zabell Patricia Guerra	New Zealand Leslie Egnot Janet Shearer	United States J. J. Isler Pamela Healy
1996	Spain Begoña Vía Dufresne Theresa Zabell	Japan Yumiko Shige Alicia Kinoshita	Ukraine Olena Pacholtschyk Ruslana Taran
2000	Australia Jenny Armstrong Belinda Stowell	United States J. J. Isler Sarah Glaser	Ukraine Olena Pacholtschyk Ruslana Taran
2004	Greece Sofia Bekatorou Emilia Tsoulfa	Spain Natalia Vía Dufresne Sandra Azón	Sweden Therese Torgersson Vendela Zachrisson
2008	Australia Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson	Netherlands Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout	Brazil Fernanda Oliveira Isabel Swan
2012	New Zealand Jo Aleh Olivia Powrie	United Kingdom Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	Netherlands Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout
2016	United Kingdom Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	New Zealand Jo Aleh Olivia Powrie	France Camille Lecointre Hélène Defrance

49erFX

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2016	Brazil Martine Grael Kahena Kunze	New Zealand Alex Maloney Molly Meech	Denmark Jena Hansen Katja Salskov-Iversen

Keel boats

Used boat classes:

• Yngling (2004-2008)
• Elliott 6m (2012)

Yngling

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2004	United Kingdom Sarah Ayton Shirley Robertson Sarah Webb	Ukraine Hanna Kalinina Switlana Matewuschewa Ruslana Taran	Denmark Dorte Jensen Helle Jespersen Christina Otzen
2008	United Kingdom Sarah Ayton Sarah Webb Pippa Wilson	Netherlands Mandy Mulder Annemieke Bes Merel Witteveen	Greece Sofia Bekatorou Sofia Papadopoulou Virginia Kravarioti

Elliott 6 m

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2012	Spain Támara Echegoyen Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro	Australia Olivia Price Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty	Finland Silja Lehtinen Silja Kanerva Mikaela Wulff

Windsurfing

Used boat classes:

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

Lechner A-390

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1992	Barbara Kendall	Zhang Xiaodong	Dorien de Vries

mistral

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
1996	Lee Lai-shan	Barbara Kendall	Alessandra Sensini
2000	Alessandra Sensini	Amelie Lux	Barbara Kendall
2004	Faustine Merret	Yin Jian	Alessandra Sensini

RS: X

Olympia	gold	silver	bronze
2008	Yin Jian	Alessandra Sensini	Bryony Shaw
2012	Marina Alabau	Tuuli Petäja	Zofia Noceti-Klepacka
2016	Charline Picon	Chen Peina	Stefanija Jelfutina