1996 Summer Olympics / Sailing

Sailing at the 1996 Olympics
information
venue	Savannah
Competition venue	Wassaw Sound
Nations	78
Athletes	458 (358 , 100 )
date	July 22nd - August 2nd, 1996
decisions	10
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At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , the US metropolis , ten sailing competitions were held.

The venue was the Wassaw Sound in Savannah on the Atlantic coast .

Balance sheet

Olympic boat classes 1996: (from left) Europe, windsurfing (Mistral), laser, Finn-Dinghy, 470, Tornado, Star, Soling

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Brazil	2	-	1	3
2	Spain	2	-	-	2
3	Ukraine	1	-	1	2
4th	Greece	1	-	-	1
	Poland	1	-	-	1
	Hong Kong	1	-	-	1
	Denmark	1	-	-	1
	Germany	1	-	-	1
9	Great Britain	-	2	-	2
10	Australia	-	1	1	2
	Netherlands	-	1	1	2
12	Argentina	-	1	-	1
	Belgium	-	1	-	1
	Japan	-	1	-	1
	New Zealand	-	1	-	1
	Russia	-	1	-	1
	Sweden	-	1	-	1
18th	United States	-	-	2	2
19th	Israel	-	-	1	1
	Italy	-	-	1	1
	Norway	-	-	1	1
	Portugal	-	-	1	1
total		10	10	10	30th

Medalist

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Finn dinghy	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	Sébastien Godefroid	Roy Heiner
Windsurfing	Nikolaos Kaklamanakis	Carlos Espínola	Gal Fridman
470s	Ukraine Jewhen Braslawez Ihor Matviyenko	Great Britain John Merricks Ian Walker	Portugal Hugo Rocha Nuno Barreto

Women

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Europe	Kristine Roug	Margriet Matthijsse	Courtenay Becker-Dey
Windsurfing	Lee Lai-shan	Barbara Kendall	Alessandra Sensini
470s	Spain Begoña Vía Dufresne Theresa Zabell	Japan Yumiko Shige Alicia Kinoshita	Ukraine Olena Pacholtschyk Ruslana Taran

Open classes

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
laser	Robert Scheidt	Ben Ainslie	Peer Moberg
star	Brazil Marcelo Ferreira Torben Grael	Sweden Bobby Lohse Hans Wallén	Australia Colin Beashel David Giles
Soling	Germany Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel Jochen Schümann	Russia Dmitri Schabanow Georgi Schaiduko Igor Skalin	United States Jim Barton Jeff Madrigali Kent Massey
tornado	Spain José Luis Ballester Fernando León	Australia Mitch Booth Andrew Landenberger	Brazil Lars Grael Kiko Pellicano

Results men

Finn dinghy

space	country	athlete	Points
1	POLE	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	32
2	BEL	Sébastien Godefroid	45
3	NED	Roy Heiner	50
4th	AUT	Hans Spitzauer	54
5	SWE	Fredrik Lööf	57
6th	OUT	Paul McKenzie	67
7th	ESP	Jose Maria van der Ploeg	69
8th	RSA	Ian Ainslie	72

Windsurfing (Mistral)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GRE	Nikolaos Kaklamanakis	17th
2	ARG	Carlos Espínola	19th
3	ISR	Gal Fridman	21st
4th	NZL	Aaron McIntosh	27
5	FRA	Jean-Max de Chavigny	37
6th	United States	Michael Gebhardt	41
7th	POR	João Rodrigues	42
8th	OUT	Brendan Todd	48

470s

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	UKR	Jewhen Braslawez Ihor Matviyenko	40
2	GBR	John Merricks Ian Walker	61
3	POR	Hugo Rocha Nuno Barreto	62
4th	FIN	Petri Leskinen Mika Aarnikka	65
5	RUS	Dmitry Berezkin Yevgeniy Burmatnov	66
6th	FRA	Jean-Francois Berthet Gwenael Berthet	72
7th	ARG	Martin Billoch Martin Rodriguez	73
8th	United States	Morgan Reeser Kevin Burnham	74

Results women

Europe

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	THE	Kristine Roug	24
2	NED	Margriet Matthijsse	30th
3	United States	Courtenay Becker-Dey	39
4th	GBR	Shirley Robertson	41
5	NZL	Sharon Ferris	73
6th	GER	Sibylle Powarzynski	75
7th	NOR	Linda Konttorp	81
8th	ARG	Serena Amato	81

Windsurfing (Mistral)

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	HKG	Lee Lai-shan	16
2	NZL	Barbara Kendall	24
3	ITA	Alessandra Sensini	28
4th	CHN	Ke Li	57
5	NOR	Jorunn Horgen	59
6th	POLE	Dorota Staszewska	59
7th	GBR	Penny Wilson	60
8th	FRA	Maud Herbert	72

470s

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	ESP	Begoña Vía Dufresne Theresa Zabell	25th
2	JPN	Yumiko Shige Alicia Kinoshita	36
3	UKR	Olena Pacholtschyk Ruslana Taran	38
4th	United States	Kris Stookey Louise Van Voorhis	47
5	GER	Susanne Bauckholt Katrin Adlkofer	49
6th	THE	Susanne Ward Lise Michaela Ward	56
7th	ITA	Federica Salva Emanuela Sossi	64
8th	OUT	Jennifer Lidgett Addy Bucek	64

Results open classes

laser

space	country	athlete	Points
1	BRA	Robert Scheidt	26th
2	GBR	Ben Ainslie	37
3	NOR	Peer Moberg	46
4th	OUT	Michael Blackburn	48
5	GER	Stefan Warkalla	54
6th	SWE	John Harrysson	55
7th	POR	Vasco Serpa	74
8th	FIN	Thomas Johanson	78

star

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	BRA	Marcelo Ferreira Torben Grael	25th
2	SWE	Bobby Lohse Hans Wallén	29
3	OUT	Colin Beashel David Giles	32
4th	GRE	Anastasios Boundouris Dimitrios Boukis	45
5	NZL	Rod Davis Donald Cowie	46
6th	ITA	Enrico Chieffi Roberto Sinibaldi	52
7th	ESP	José Luis Doreste Javier Hermida	57
8th	United States	Mark Reynolds Hal Haenel	58

Soling

space	country	Athletes
1	GER	Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel Jochen Schümann
2	RUS	Dmitri Schabanow Georgi Schaiduko Igor Skalin
3	United States	Jim Barton Jeff Madrigali Kent Massey
4th	GBR	Andrew Beadsworth Barry Parkin Adrian Stead
5	CAN	Bill Abbott Joanne Abbott Brad Boston
6th	THE	Stig Westergaard Jan Andersen Jens Bojsen-Møller

tornado

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	ESP	José Luis Ballester Fernando León	30th
2	OUT	Mitch Booth Andrew Landenberger	42
3	BRA	Lars Grael Kiko Pellicano	43
4th	AUT	Andreas Hagara Florian Schneeberger	44
5	ITA	Walter Pirinoli Marco Pirinoli	44
6th	FRA	Frederic Le Peutrec Franck Citeau	46
7th	GER	Roland Gäbler Frank Parlow	48
8th	United States	John Lovell Charlie Ogletree	48

Web links

• Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )