World Sailing Championships and World Youth Sailing Championships with kite surfing Scheveningen postponed

World Sailing Championships and World Youth Sailing Championships with kite surfing Scheveningen
World Sailing Championships and World Youth Sailing Championships with kite surfing Scheveningen

It was already known that the bullet is through the church and kite surfing will become an Olympic sport. In the prelude to that, we previously had some interesting news for you. Namely that the Municipality of The Hague will increase the 2021th organizes the edition of the Youth Sailing World Championship. In addition, to top it all off, that during the 50th edition for the first time kite surfing would be added.

However, we have already seen that the Coronavirus threw a spanner in the works for almost all kitesurfing competitions in 2020. It is now clear that this will also be the case in 2021. The World Sailing and Youth Sailing Championships with kite surfing Scheveningen has been postponed.

World Sailing Championships and World Youth Sailing Championships with kite surfing Scheveningen postponed

The World Sailing Championships and the World Youth Sailing Championships, which were scheduled for the summer of 2021 and 2022, have both been postponed by one year. The organization already foresaw last year that it was no longer possible to organize these world championships worthily.

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World Sailing Championships Scheveningen: mega organization

Because the absolute world top would come to the Netherlands for these championships. In addition, the World Sailing Championship would be held first and foremost in the Netherlands. Furthermore, The Ocean Race stop-over is also planned. Both have now been moved to Scheveningen in the summer of 2023. It is expected that some 1.400 sailors from more than 90 countries will participate. You can imagine that this is a mega organization and will be a very cool event off the coast and on the beach of Scheveningen. More on this at sailing.nl.

New dates Sailing World Championships and Youth Sailing World Championships Scheveningen

  • World Youth Sailing Championships 2022: spring or summer 2022. Kite surfing has been added to this.
  • Sailing World Championships 2023: Thursday 10 to Sunday 20 August.

All kite surfing Olympic sport information

We will closely monitor developments in this regard and will keep you informed. View all our kitesurfing Olympic sport information via the link below. In it you will find all the in-depth information. Also cool interviews, blogs about developments and match reports.

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