{"id":13708,"date":"2026-05-11T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/13708\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:28:11","slug":"olympic-test-comes-to-france-scuttlebutt-sailing-news-providing-sailing-news-for-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/13708\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic test comes to France >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing sailing news for sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 World Championship are being held May 12-17 in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, on the rugged Atlantic coast of France. Close to 350 sailors representing more than 30 nations across six continents will compete across these three Olympic events. <\/p>\n<p>The North American contingent has 14 entrants among the three events<br \/>49er: Canada \u2013 1, USA \u2013 2<br \/>49erFX: Canada 1, USA 5<br \/>Nacra 17: Canada \u2013 1, USA 4<\/p>\n<p>Quiberon was selected for this championship as it blends raw Oceanic winds but the racing is hidden from the worst of the swell behind the extended peninsula. It is exactly the environment where world titles are decided \u2014 and where the road to the LA 2028 Olympic Games takes its sharpest turn yet.<\/p>\n<p>The entry list has countries from Australia and New Zealand to Argentina, Uruguay, India, Oman, Japan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, and across much of Europe and North America. The event has attracted a remarkable concentration of talent barely two years from the next Games. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/49er.org\/the-worlds-best-skiff-and-foiling-sailors-converge-on-quiberon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gbropes.com\/\" aria-label=\"GB-101625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GB-101625.png\" alt=\"\"   width=\"620\" height=\"149\" style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49er.org\/events\/2026-world-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Event information<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manage2sail.com\/en-US\/event\/WC2026#!\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Race details<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/49erSailing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Sailing Program (July 16-28):<a name=\"more\"\/><br \/>First Week \u2013 July 16-20<br \/>Men\u2019s Kiteboard \u2013 Formula Kite Class \u2013 Long Beach, CA<br \/>Women\u2019s Kiteboard \u2013 Formula Kite Class \u2013 Long Beach, CA<br \/>Men\u2019s Windsurfing \u2013 iQFOiL \u2013 Long Beach, CA<br \/>Women\u2019s Windsurfing \u2013 iQFOiL \u2013 Long Beach, CA<\/p>\n<p>Second Week \u2013 July 23-28<br \/>Men\u2019s One Person Dinghy \u2013 ILCA 7 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Women\u2019s One Person Dinghy \u2013 ILCA 6 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Mixed Two Person Dinghy \u2013 470 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Men\u2019s Skiff \u2013 49er \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Women\u2019s Skiff \u2013 49erFX \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Mixed Multihull \u2013 Nacra 17 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<\/p>\n<p>For more details, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailingscuttlebutt.com\/2025\/11\/13\/sailing-program-schedule-for-la28-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 World Championship are being held May 12-17 in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10238,10239,10240,5,10241,10242,10243,4007],"class_list":{"0":"post-13708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-49er","9":"tag-49er-and-49erfx-world-championships","10":"tag-49erfx","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-los-angeles-2028-games","13":"tag-nacra-17","14":"tag-nacra-17-worlds","15":"tag-olympic-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}