The International Sailing Federation (World Sailing) has already revealed The first qualifying event for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will take place in Marseille’s ocean regattas, will be the World Olympic Class Championships in The Hague (Holland) in 2023.
There will be a total of ten Olympic classes: ILCA 7 (Men’s Laser Standard), ILCA 6 (Women’s Laser Radial), 49er. male, female 49erFx, male Formula Kite, female Formula Kite, male iQFoil Windsurf, female iQFoil Windsurf, 470 Mixed and Nacra 17 mixed.
Kite Formula will be Olympic for the first timeafter being successfully tested at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires 2018. Foil boards (IQFoil) will also debut in men’s and women’s windsurfing.
World Sailing has 144 accompanying members and each country can only have one representative per class.. Considering that the 49er, 470 Mixed and Nacra17 Mixed are double crewed, each national team that qualifies in all classes will form a maximum of 14 members (7 men and 7 women).
In this way, 330 sailors (165 men and 165 women) will sail to Marseille in 290 boats. Only France, the organizing country, has been able to classify all classes.
The Paris 2024 Games will be the first to achieve a 50-50 ratio between male and female athletes, ending with the progress made in Rio 2016 (47.5%) and Tokyo 2020 (48.8%).
Following the Olympic Class World Championships, to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, from August 10-20, 2023, the next qualifying event will be the ILCA6 and ILCA7 World Classes in 2024. After that there will be ten classification events on each continental zone: Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Europe, North America/Caribbean and Oceania.
The last chance to qualify for the ten classes is a play-off regatta to be held in 2024., just a few months before the Games began. When qualifying by country in class, each country will define its own system for selecting its representative.
It will also be the first Olympic Games where two of the three main sailing event managers are women, following the appointment of Turkish Pinar Coskuner Genç as regatta director and Spanish Ana Sánchez Del Campo as president of the Jury. .
On the other hand, and on the occasion of the Games, the Roucas-Blanc marina is being arranged to host a competition on the size of the Olympic Games.
The project includes plans to lay approximately 7,000 m of buildings and the redevelopment of 17,000 m of outdoor spaces.as well as remodeling the dock itself, making it a unique area of competition.
This will be the scene of JJ.OO’s sailing trials. 2024, but it will host a ‘trial’ trial in July 2023.
Source: La Verdad
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