470 World Championships

The 470 World Championships have been held every year since 1970 and organised by the club on behalf of the International 470 Class Association and recognized by World Sailing. When the Championship forms part of the ISAF Sailing World Championships.

The 470 Junior World Championships have been held every year since 19??.

The 470 is a sailboat class used as equipment for the Olympic Sailing Competition.

The class has had additional World Championships organized by World Sailing when the class was used in the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships and the IYRU Womens Sailing World Championships.

Editions

Event			Host			Participation				Ref.
Ed.	Dates	Year	Host club	Location	Country	Gender	Ath.	Nat.	Cont.
01	12–19 July	1970		Lacanau	France	Open	102	14
02	28 July – 5 August	1971		Ostend	Belgium	Open	118	13
03	4–14 August	1972		Montreal	Canada	Open	106	13
04	8–17 August	1973		Kiel	West Germany	Open	156	19
05	3–11 August	1974		Naples	Italy	Open	158	29
06	7–15 July	1975		New York	United States	Open	148	20
07	16–26 September	1977		Shizuoka	Japan	Open	90	16
08	28 July – 4 August	1978		Marstrand	Sweden	Open	116	27
09	10–16 August	1979		Medemblik	Netherlands	Open	148	30
10	6–15 February	1980		Porto Alegre	Brazil	Open	98	16
11	29 August – 6 Sept.	1981		Quiberon	France	Open	154	27
12	3–12 July	1982		Cascais	Portugal	Open	170	24
13	2–10 June	1983		Weymouth	United Kingdom	Open	148	21
14	25 January – 3 February	1984		Auckland	New Zealand	Open	122	15
15	23 August – 8 September	1985		Marina di Carrara	Italy	Male/Mixed
						Female
16	21–29 September	1986		Salou	Spain	Male/Mixed
						Female
17	20 June – 5 July	1987		Kiel	West Germany	Male/Mixed
						Female
18	27 March – 6 April	1988		Haifa	Israel	Male/Mixed
						Female
19	10–21 August	1989		Tsu	Japan	Male/Mixed
						Female
20	16–26 August	1990		Medemblik	Netherlands	Male/Mixed
						Female
21	11–21 December	1991		Brisbane	Australia	Male/Mixed
						Female
22	24–29 April	1992		Cádiz	Spain	Male/Mixed
						Female
23	18–24 July	1993		Crozon-Morgat	France	Male/Mixed
						Female
24	16–25 August	1994		Helsinki	Finland	Male/Mixed
						Female
25	10–20 August	1995		Toronto	Canada	Male/Mixed
						Female
26	8–17 February	1996		Porto Alegre	Brazil	Male/Mixed
						Female
27	21–30 August	1997		Tel Aviv	Israel	Male/Mixed
						Female
28	31 August – 9 September	1998		El Arenal	Spain	Male/Mixed
						Female
29	7–17 January	1999		Melbourne	Australia	Male/Mixed
						Female
30	10–20 May	2000		Balatonfüred	Hungary	Male/Mixed
						Female
31	8–17 September	2001		Koper	Slovenia	Male/Mixed
						Female
32	2–11 September	2002		Cagliari	Italy	Male/Mixed
						Female
33	11–24 September	2003		Cádiz	Spain	Male
						Female
34	7–16 May	2004		Zadar	Croatia	Male/Mixed
						Female
35	19–28 August	2005		San Francisco	United States	Male/Mixed
						Female
36	4–13 September	2006		Rizhao	China	Male/Mixed
						Female
37	28 June – 13 July	2007	Clube Naval de Cascais	Cascais	Portugal	Male
						Female
38	21–30 January	2008		Melbourne	Australia	Male/Mixed
						Female
39	20–29 August	2009		Rungsted	Denmark	Male/Mixed
						Female
40	9–18 July	2010		The Hague	Netherlands	Male/Mixed
						Female
41	3–18 December	2011		Perth	Australia	Male
						Female
42	10–19 May	2012		Barcelona	Spain	Male/Mixed
						Female
43	30 July – 10 August	2013		La Rochelle	France	Male/Mixed
						Female
44	12–21 September	2014		Santander	Spain	Male/Mixed
						Female
45	10–17 October	2015		Haifa	Israel	Male
						Female
46	20–27 February	2016		San Isidro	Argentina	Male/Mixed
						Female
47	7–15 July	2017		Thessaloniki	Greece	Male
						Female
48	30 July – 12 August	2018		Aarhus	Denmark	Male
						Female
49	4–9 August	2019		Enoshima	Japan	Male
						Female
N/A	13–21 March	2020	Club Nàutic Arenal	S'Arenal	Spain	Cancelled due to COVID-19
50	8–13 March	2021		Vilamoura	Portugal	Mixed
						Male
						Female
51	24–29 October	2022		Sdot Yam	Israel	Mixed
52	8–20 August	2023		The Hague	Netherlands	Male
						Female
53	27 February – 3 March	2024	Club Nàutic Arenal	S'Arenal	Spain	Mixed	122	26

Medallists

Open

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1970 Lake Lacanau	France Yves Carré Hervé Carré	France Philippe Follenfant Hubert Follenfant	France Didier Poisson Denis Londeix
1971 Ostend	Netherlands Tom van Essen Wouter van Essen	France Philippe Follenfant Hubert Follenfant	France Bruno Demartial Bernard Demartial
1972 Montreal	Netherlands Sjoerd Vollebregt Erik Vollebregt	France Philippe Follenfant Hubert Follenfant	Netherlands Tom van Essen Wouter van Essen
1973 Kiel	Denmark Henrik Söderlund Age Börresen	United States Peter Commette Michael Loeb	Netherlands Joop van Werkhoven Robert van Werkhoven
1974 Naples	Spain Antonio Gorostegui Manuel Albalat	France Philippe Lecrit Dominique Duvallet	Spain Juan Santana Francisco Colom
1975 New York	France Marc Laurent Roger Surmin	France Philippe Follenfant Hubert Follenfant	France Jean-François Fountaine Claire Fountaine
1976	not held
1977 Shizuoka	United States David Ullman Tom Linskey	Japan Kazunori Komatsu Yasuyuki Hakomori	New Zealand Mark Paterson David Mackay
1978 Marstrand	United States David Ullman Tom Linskey	Canada Gerry Roufs Charles Robitaille	West Germany John Pudenz Ulrich Kittmann
1979 Medemblik	Japan Miyuki Kay Ryo Komiya	France Laurent Delage Hervé Wattine	France Stéphane Richer Philippe Claude
1980 Porto Alegre	United States David Ullman Tom Linskey	France Laurent Delage Hervé Wattine	France Stéphane Richer Philippe Claude
1981 Quiberon	New Zealand David Barnes Hamish Willcox	United States Steve Benjamin Chris Steinfeld	Italy Tommaso Chieffi Enrico Chieffi
1982 Cascais	East Germany Jörn Borowski Eckbert Swensson	France Daniel Peponnet Pascal Champaloux	New Zealand David Barnes Hamish Willcox
1983 Weymouth	New Zealand David Barnes Hamish Willcox	West Germany Wolfgang Hunger Jochen Hunger	Israel Shimshon Brokman Eitan Friedlander
1984 Auckland	New Zealand David Barnes Hamish Willcox	New Zealand Chris Dickson Joe Allen	New Zealand Peter Evans Sean Reeves

Men and Mixed

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985 Marina di Carrara	Italy Tommaso Chieffi Enrico Chieffi	France Thierry Peponnet Luc Pillot	East Germany Jörn Borowski Mathias Gall
1986 Salou	France Thierry Peponnet Luc Pillot	West Germany Wolfgang Hunger Jochen Hunger	West Germany Ludger Hüttermann Nils Körte
1987 Kiel	East Germany Bernd Hoeft Falko Bier	Italy Pietro D'Alì Giuseppe Cojana	East Germany Jürgen Brietzke Ekkehard Schulz
1988 Haifa	Great Britain Nigel Buckley Peter Newlands	Italy Sandro Montefusco Paolo Montefusco	United States John Shadden Charlie Mckee
1989 Tsu City	Japan Tomoaki Tsutsumi Nobuhiro Tsutsumi	Spain Jordi Calafat Kiko Sánchez	Japan Kenji Nakamura Masayuki Takahashi
1990 Medemblik	West Germany Wolfgang Hunger Rolf Schmidt	Spain Jordi Calafat Kiko Sánchez	France Olivier Ponthieu Gilles Espinasse
1991 Brisbane	Germany Wolfgang Hunger Rolf Schmidt	Netherlands Lankhorst Taselaar Ben Kouwenhoven	Great Britain Paul Brotherton Andy Hemmings
1992 Rota	Spain Jordi Calafat Kiko Sánchez	Italy Matteo Ivaldi Michele Ivaldi	Finland Perti Leskinen Mika Aarnikka
1993 Crozon-Morgat	Spain Jordi Calafat Kiko Sánchez	France Jean-François Berthet Gwenaël Berthet	Israel Shai Bachar Erez Shemesh
1994 Helsinki	Netherlands Ben Kouwenhoven Jan Kouwenhoven	Japan Kenji Nakamura Masato Takaki	Sweden Markus Westerlind Henrik Wallin
1995 Toronto	Greece Andreas Kosmatopoulos Costas Trigonis	Italy Matteo Ivaldi Michelle Ivaldi	Israel Ran Shental Nir Shental
1996 Porto Alegre	Netherlands Ben Kouwenhoven Jan Kouwenhoven	Great Britain John Merricks Ian Walker	Japan Kenji Nakamura Masato Takaki
1997 Tel Aviv	Finland Petri Leskinen Kristian Heinilä	Portugal Hugo Rocha Nuno Barreto	Sweden Marcus Westerlind Henrik Wallin
1998 Mallorca	France Gildas Philippe Tanguy Cariou	Slovenia Tomaž Čopi Mitja Margon	Sweden Johan Molund Mattias Rahm
1999 Melbourne	France Benoit Petit Jean-Francois Cuzon	Sweden Johan Molund Mattias Rahm	Poland Tomasz Stańczyk Tomasz Jakubiak
2000 Lake Balaton	Australia Tom King Mark Turnbull	France Gildas Philippe Tanguy Cariou	Ukraine Yevhen Braslavets Ihor Matviyenko
2001 Koper	Ukraine Yevhen Braslavets Ihor Matviyenko	Great Britain Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page
2002 Cagliari	New Zealand Simon Cooke Peter Nicholas	Greece Andreas Kosmatopoulos Konstantinos Trigonis	Spain Gustavo Martínez Tunte Cantero

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2003 Cádiz	Italy Gabrio Zandonà Andrea Trani	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	Spain Gustavo Martínez Dimas Wood
2004 Zadar	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	Sweden Johan Molund Martin Andersson	Great Britain Nick Rogers Jonathan Glanfield
2005 San Francisco	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	Great Britain Nick Rogers Jonathan Glanfield	France Gildas Philippe Nicolas le Berre
2006 Rizhao	Great Britain Nic Asher Elliot Willis	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	Israel Gideon Kliger Udi Gal
2007 Cascais	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	Netherlands Sven Coster Kalle Coster	Israel Gideon Kliger Udi Gal
2008 Mordialloc	Great Britain Nic Asher Elliot Willis	Portugal Álvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes	Israel Gideon Kliger Udi Gal
2009 Copenhagen	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	Great Britain Luke Patience Stuart Bithell	Japan Ryunosuke Harada Yugo Yoshida
2010 The Hague	Australia Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page	France Nicolas Charbonnier Baptiste Meyer	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić
2011 Perth	Australia Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page	Great Britain Luke Patience Stuart Bithell	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić
2012 Barcelona	Australia Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page	France Pierre Leboucher Vincent Garos	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić
2013 La Rochelle	Australia Mathew Belcher Will Ryan	France Pierre Leboucher Nicolas le Berre	Greece Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis
2014 Santander	Australia Mathew Belcher Will Ryan	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	Greece Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis
2015 Haifa	Australia Mathew Belcher Will Ryan	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	Russia Pavel Sozykin Denis Gribanov
2016 San Isidro	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	New Zealand Paul Snow-Hansen Daniel Willcox	Australia Mathew Belcher Will Ryan
2017 Thessaloniki	Australia Mathew Belcher Will Ryan	Sweden Anton Dahlberg Fredrik Bergström	Austria David Bargher Lukas Mähr
2018 Aarhus	France Kevin Peponnet Jérémie Mion	Japan Tetsuya Isozaki Akira Takayanagi	Spain Jordi Xammar Nicolás Rodríguez
2019 Enoshima	Australia Mathew Belcher Will Ryan	Spain Jordi Xammar Nicolás Rodríguez	Sweden Anton Dahlberg Fredrik Bergström
2021 Vilamoura	Sweden Anton Dahlberg Fredrik Bergström	Portugal Diogo Costa Pedro Costa	Spain Jordi Xammar Nicolás Rodríguez

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985 Marina di Carrara	Canada Karen Johnson Katrin Johnson	Netherlands Tonny Vooren Henneke Stavenuiter	Italy Paola Porta Anna Barabino
1986	not held to avoid conflict with the IYRU Women's World Championship
1987 Kiel	West Germany Susanne Meyer Katrin Adlkofer	United States Pease Herndon Cindy Goff	East Germany Susanne Theel Silke Preuß
1988 Haifa	Sweden Marit Söderström Birgitta Bengtsson	United States Lisa Niece Patricia Raymond	United States J. J. Isler Amy Wardell
1989 Tsu City	West Germany Susanne Meyer Katrin Adlkofer	New Zealand Leslie Egnot Jan Shearer	Great Britain S. Rees Jones S. Hay
1990 Medemblik	West Germany Tanja Stemmler Sabine Lenkmann	East Germany Peggy Hardwiger Christina Pinnow	Spain Núria Bover Irene Martín
1991 Brisbane	United States J. J. Isler Pamela Healy	Soviet Union Larisa Moskalenko Olena Pakholchyk	Germany Susanne Peters Wibke Bülle
1992 Rota	Spain Theresa Zabell Patricia Guerra	Japan Yumiko Shige Alicia Kinoshita	Italy Maria Quarra Anna Barabino
1993 Crozon-Morgat	Germany Ines Bohn Sabine Rohatzsch	Spain Theresa Zabell Patricia Guerra	Italy Frederica Salva Emanuela Sossi
1994 Helsinki	Germany Ines Bohn Sabine Rohatzsch	Germany Susanne Bauckholt Katrin Adlkofer	Germany Peggy Hardwiger Christina Pinnow
1995 Toronto	Spain Theresa Zabell Begoña Vía Dufresne	Ukraine Ruslana Taran Olena Pakholchyk	Japan Yumiko Shige Alicia Konoshita
1996 Porto Alegre	Spain Theresa Zabell Begoña Vía Dufresne	Germany Susanne Bauckholt Katrin Adlkofer	Germany Nicola Birkner Wibke Bülle
1997 Tel Aviv	Ukraine Ruslana Taran Olena Pakholchyk	Germany Nicola Birkner Wibke Bülle	Ukraine Vlada Krachun Natalia Gaponovitsch
1998 Mallorca	Ukraine Ruslana Taran Olena Pakholchyk	Denmark Susanne Ward Michaela Ward	Germany Nicola Birkner Wibke Bülle
1999 Melbourne	Ukraine Ruslana Taran Olena Pakholchyk	Denmark Susanne Ward Michaela Ward	Italy Federica Salvà Emanuela Sossi
2000 Lake Balaton	Greece Sofia Bekatorou Emilia Tsoulfa	Australia Jenny Armstrong Belinda Stowell	Spain Natalia Vía Dufresne Sandra Azón
2001 Koper	Greece Sofia Bekatorou Emilia Tsoulfa	Australia Jenny Armstrong Belinda Stowell	Spain Natalia Vía Dufresne Sandra Azón
2002 Cagliari	Greece Sofia Bekatorou Emilia Tsoulfa	Netherlands Lisa Westerhof Margriet Matthijsse	France Ingrid Petitjean Nadège Douroux
2003 Cádiz	Greece Sofia Bekatorou Emilia Tsoulfa	France Ingrid Petitjean Nadège Douroux	Russia Wlada Iljenko Natalia Gaponovitsch
2004 Zadar	Sweden Therese Torgersson Vendela Zachrisson	Slovenia Vesna Dekleva Klara Maučec	Israel Nike Kornecki Vered Buskila
2005 San Francisco	Netherlands Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout	Great Britain Christina Bassadone Saskia Clark	France Ingrid Petitjean Nadège Douroux
2006 Rizhao	Netherlands Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout	Japan Ai Kondo Naoko Kamata	Sweden Therese Torgersson Vendela Zachrisson
2007 Cascais	Netherlands Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout	France Ingrid Petitjean Nadège Douroux	Great Britain Christina Bassadone Saskia Clark
2008 Mordialloc	United States Erin Maxwell Isabelle Kinsolving	Italy Giulia Conti Giovanna Micol	Australia Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson
2009 Copenhagen	Netherlands Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout	Spain Tara Pacheco Berta Betanzos	France Ingrid Petitjean Nadège Douroux
2010 The Hague	Netherlands Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout	New Zealand Jo Aleh Polly Powrie	Italy Giulia Conti Giovanna Micol
2011 Perth	Spain Tara Pacheco Berta Betanzos	Great Britain Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	New Zealand Jo Aleh Polly Powrie
2012 Barcelona	Great Britain Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	France Camille Lecointre Mathilde Géron	Netherlands Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout
2013 La Rochelle	New Zealand Jo Aleh Polly Powrie	Austria Lara Vadlau Jolanta Ogar	China Wang Xiaoli Huang Xufeng
2014 Santander	Austria Lara Vadlau Jolanta Ogar	New Zealand Jo Aleh Polly Powrie	Great Britain Hannah Mills Saskia Clark
2015 Haifa	Austria Lara Vadlau Jolanta Ogar	Great Britain Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	France Camille Lecointre Hélène Defrance
2016 San Isidro	France Camille Lecointre Hélène Defrance	New Zealand Jo Aleh Polly Powrie	Austria Lara Vadlau Jolanta Ogar
2017 Thessaloniki	Poland Agnieszka Skrzypulec Irmina Mróz-Gliszczyńska	Great Britain Hannah Mills Eilidh McIntyre	Slovenia Tina Mrak Veronika Macarol
2018 Aarhus	Japan Ai Yoshida Miho Yoshioka	Spain Silvia Mas Patricia Cantero	Great Britain Hannah Mills Eilidh McIntyre
2019 Enoshima	Great Britain Hannah Mills Eilidh McIntyre	Japan Ai Yoshida Miho Yoshioka	France Camille Lecointre Aloïse Retornaz
2021 Vilamoura	Spain Silvia Mas Patricia Cantero	Netherlands Afrodite Zegers Lobke Berkhout	Italy Elena Berta Bianca Caruso

Mixed

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2022 Sdot Yam	Germany Luise Wanser Philipp Autenrieth	Spain Jordi Xammar Nora Brugman	France Camille Lecointre Jérémie Mion
2024 S'Arenal	Spain Jordi Xammar Nora Brugman	Great Britain Vita Heathcote Chris Grube	Japan Keiju Okada Miho Yoshioka

Editions - Junior

Event			Host			Participation					Ref.
Ed.	Dates	Year	Host club	Location	Country	Gender	Boats	Ath.	Nat.	Cont.
01		1979	[[]]	Alassio	Italy	Open	51	102	12
02		1980	[[]]	Roviny	Yugoslavia	Open
03	6 - 12 July	1981	[[]]	Monickendam	Netherlands	Open	62	124	20
04	-	1982	[[]]	Helsingborg	Sweden	Open	50	100	13
05	-	1983	[[]]	Morbisch	Austria	Open	54	108	14
06	31 July to 4 Aug	1984	[[]]	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Open	48	96	14
07	3 - 8 Aug	1985	[[]]	Gravedona	Italy	Open	49	98	15
08	6 - 12 Sept	1986	[[]]	Medemblik	Netherlands	Open	63	126	17
09	18 - 25 July	1987	[[]]	Koper	Yugoslavia	Open	58	116	14
10	21 - 28 Aug	1988	[[]]	Puck	Poland	Open	51	102	12
11	-	1989	[[]]	Alicante	Spain	Open	49	98	11
12	-	1990	[[]]	Paleon Faliron	France	Open	44	88	13
13	22 - 31 Aug	1991	[[]]	Damp	Germany	Open	68	136	16
14	16 - 24 Aug	1992	[[]]	Espoo	Finland	Open	44	88	15
15	21 - 29 Aug	1993	[[]]	Marina di Carra	Italy	Open	61	122	19

Junior Male and Mixed

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2016 Kiel	Japan Keiju Okada Naoya Kimura	Spain David Charles Alex Charles	Japan Daichi Takayama Akira Takayanagi
2018
2019 Slovenia	Giacomo Ferrari (ITA) Giulio Calabrò (ITA)	Daniel Gōttlich (GER) Linus Klasen (GER)	Lucas Schlüter (GER) Frederick Eichhorst (GER)
2024 Darıca	Matisse Pacaud (FRA) Lucie de Gennes (FRA)	Lomane Valade (FRA) Julien Bunel (FRA)	Manon Pennaneac'h (FRA) Pierre Williot (FRA)

Junior Female

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2016 Kiel	Spain Silvia Mas Paula Barceló	France Marina Lefort Lara Granier	Germany Maria Bozi Rafailina Klonaridou
2018
2019 Slovenia	Luise Wanser (GER) Helena WANSER (GER)	Paola AMAR (FRA) Marine RIOU (FRA)	Theres DAHNKE (GER) Birte WINKEL (GER)

Multiple medallists

#	Athlete	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Mathew Belcher (AUS)	8	0	1	9
2	Malcolm Page (AUS)	7	2	1	10
3	Lobke Berkhout (NED) Will Ryan (AUS)	5	0	1	6
4	Sofia Bekatorou (GRE) Emilia Tsoulfa (GRE)	4	0	0	4
6	Nathan Wilmot (AUS)	3	2	0	5
7	Sime Fantela (CRO) Igor Marenic (CRO)	3	1	1	5
9	Ruslana Taran (UKR) Olena Pakholchyk (UKR)	3	1	0	4
11	David Barnes (NZL) Hamish Willcox (NZL)	3	0	1	4
13	David Ullman (USA) Tom Linskey (USA)	3	0	0	3

See also

• World championships in sailing
• World Sailing

References

• 2013 official results at Worlds.470.org

External links

• Class Association Webpage
• ISAF 470 Microsite
• Sailing competitions