List of Olympic champions in sailing / statistics

Olympic champion sailing

Overview Medalist Medalists Medalists Open Classes statistics

This list is part of the list of Olympic champions in sailing and contains statistical evaluations. The first part lists the most successful sailors at the Summer Olympics: All men who have won at least two gold medals and all women with more than one medal (of which at least one is gold). The second part includes the medal table ; Due to the large number of classes advertised equally for men and women, there is no further division by gender.

The most successful participants

• Place: Indicates the order of the athletes. This is determined by the number of gold medals. If the number is the same, the silver medals are compared, then the bronze medals.
• Name: Name of the athlete.
• Country: The country for which the athlete started. When changing nationality, the country for which the athlete won the last medal is named.
• By: The year the athlete won the first World Championship medal.
• Until: The year in which the athlete won the last World Championship medal.
• Gold: Number of gold medals won.
• Silver: Number of silver medals won.
• Bronze: Number of bronze medals won.
• Total: Number of all medals won.

Men

Status: up to and including 2016

space	Surname	country	From	To	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Ben Ainslie	Great Britain	1996	2012	4th	1	-	5
02	Paul Elvstrøm	Denmark	1948	1960	4th	-	-	4th
03	Valentin Mankin	Soviet Union	1968	1980	3	1	-	4th
03	Jochen Schümann	Germany	1976	2000	3	1	-	4th
05	Robert Scheidt	Brazil	1996	2008	2	2	1	5
06th	Torben Grael	Brazil	1984	2004	2	1	2	5
07th	Iain Percy	Great Britain	2000	2012	2	1	-	3
07th	Mark Reynolds	United States	1988	2000	2	1	-	3
9	Tore Holm	Sweden	1920	1948	2	-	2	4th
10	Jesper Bank	Denmark	1988	2000	2	-	1	3
10	Marcelo Ferreira	Brazil	1996	2004	2	-	1	3
12	Poul Høj Jensen	Denmark	1968	1980	2	-	-	2
12	Johan Anker	Norway	1912	1928	2	-	-	2
12	Valdemar Bandolowski	Denmark	1976	1980	2	-	-	2
12	Håkon Barfod	Norway	1948	1952	2	-	-	2
12	Frédéric Blanchy	France	1900	1900	2	-	-	2
12	Andreas Brecke	Norway	1912	1920	2	-	-	2
12	Lorne Currie	Great Britain	1900	1900	2	-	-	2
12	William Exshaw	Great Britain	1900	1900	2	-	-	2
12	Thomas Flach	Germany	1988	1996	2	-	-	2
12	John Gretton	Great Britain	1900	1900	2	-	-	2
12	Roman Hagara	Austria	2000	2004	2	-	-	2
12	Erik Hansen	Denmark	1976	1980	2	-	-	2
12	Nicolas Hénard	France	1988	1992	2	-	-	2
12	Linton Hope	Great Britain	1900	1900	2	-	-	2
12	Bernd Jäkel	Germany	1988	1996	2	-	-	2
12	Jacques Le Lavasseur	France	1900	1900	2	-	-	2
12	Sigve Lie	Norway	1948	1952	2	-	-	2
12	Algernon Maudslay	Great Britain	1900	1900	2	-	-	2
12	Ingar Nielsen	Norway	1920	1924	2	-	-	2
12	Rodney Pattison	Great Britain	1968	1972	2	-	-	2
12	Carl Ringvold sr.	Norway	1920	1924	2	-	-	2
12	Hans-Peter Steinacher	Austria	2000	2004	2	-	-	2
12	Thor Thorvaldsen	Norway	1948	1952	2	-	-	2
12	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	Netherlands	2012	2016	2	-	-	2
12	Herman Whiton	United States	1948	1952	2	-	-	2

Women

space	Surname	country	From	To	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Sarah Ayton	United Kingdom	2004	2008	2	-	-	2
01	Shirley Robertson	United Kingdom	2000	2004	2	-	-	2
01	Sarah Webb	United Kingdom	2004	2008	2	-	-	2
01	Theresa Zabell	Spain	1992	1996	2	-	-	2
05	Alessandra Sensini	Italy	1996	2008	1	1	2	4th
06th	Barbara Kendall	New Zealand	1992	2000	1	1	1	3
07th	Jo Aleh	New Zealand	2012	2016	1	1	-	2
07th	Marit Bouwmeester	Netherlands	2012	2016	1	1	-	2
07th	Saskia Clark	United Kingdom	2012	2016	1	1	-	2
07th	Hannah Mills	United Kingdom	2012	2016	1	1	-	2
07th	Hélène de Pourtalès	Switzerland	1900	1900	1	1	-	2
07th	Olivia Powrie	New Zealand	2012	2016	1	1	-	2
13	Sofia Bekatorou	Greece	2004	2008	1	-	1	2

Medal table

• Place: order of countries. This is determined by the number of gold medals. If the number is the same, the silver medals are compared, then the bronze medals.
• Country: Name of the country. In individual cases, the respective predecessor states are also included.
• Gold: Number of gold medals won.
• Silver: Number of silver medals won.
• Bronze: Number of bronze medals won.
• Total: Number of all medals won.

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	United Kingdom	28	19th	10	57
02	United States	18th	24	21st	63
03	Norway	17th	11	3	31
04th	France	15th	12	18th	45
05	Denmark	14th	9	9	32
06th	Spain	13	5	1	19th
07th	Australia	11	8th	8th	27
08th	Sweden	10	12	14th	36
09	New Zealand	9	7th	6th	22nd
10	Brazil	7th	4th	8th	19th
11	Netherlands	5	9	6th	20th
12	Soviet Union	4th	5	3	12
13	Germany	4th	4th	5	13
14th	Austria	3	4th	1	8th
15th	Italy	3	3	8th	14th
16	Greece	3	2	3	8th
17th	Belgium	2	4th	3	9
18th	People's Republic of China	2	3	1	6th
19th	Finland	2	2	6th	10
20th	BR Germany	2	2	4th	8th
21st	GDR	2	2	2	6th
22nd	Mixed team	2	-	-	2
23	Argentina	1	4th	5	10
24	Ukraine	1	2	2	5
25th	Switzerland	1	2	1	4th
26th	Croatia	1	1	-	2
27	Poland	1	-	3	4th
28	Israel	1	-	2	3
29	Bahamas	1	-	1	2
30th	Hong Kong	1	-	-	1
31	Canada	-	3	6th	9
32	Slovenia	-	2	1	3
33	Ireland	-	2	-	2
34	Portugal	-	1	2	3
34	Russia	-	1	2	3
36	Japan	-	1	1	2
37	American Virgin Islands	-	1	-	1
37	Cuba	-	1	-	1
37	Lithuania	-	1	-	1
37	Netherlands Antilles	-	1	-	1
37	Czech Republic	-	1	-	1
37	Cyprus	-	1	-	1
43	Estonia	-	-	2	2
44	Hungary	-	-	1	1