Sailing News

Neha Thakur, 17, led the show with a silver while Eabad Ali claimed a bronze, as India bagged two medals in sailing at the Asian Games at Ningbo, China on Tuesday.

Neha Thakur, Adhvait Menon and Eabad Ali had successful outings in their respective sailing events of the ongoing Asian Games on Monday.

The Indian sailing contingent continued to deliver some solid performances on Day six of the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou

Tokyo Olympics: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) shared a glimpse of India sailor Vishnu Saravanan training for the first time upon reaching Tokyo.

Commander Abhilash Tomy, who took premature retirement from the Indian Navy in January this year, tweeted that he has "firmed" his plans of competing in the GGR 2022.

The Sports Ministry's Mission Olympic Cell on Friday approved an expenditure of Rs 73.14 lakhs for the training of four Tokyo Olympic-bound sailors in Europe.

For the first time in history, four Indian sailors will compete in a single edition of the Olympics.

The Indian duo, who led a small bunch of six teams after six races on Friday, finished third in the seventh race but were disqualified later to pick up seven penalty points after one of the competing teams, Malaysia, protested against one of their maneuvers and it was upheld by the race organisers at Wangsan Sailing Marina.

Indian sailors Varsha Gautham and Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan

Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page of Australia lived up to their favourites' status with a gold medal run in the men's 470 sailing at the Olympic Games on Friday.

New Zealand's Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie won the gold medal in the women's 470 on Friday, the Kiwis' second sailing medal of the London Olympics.

Fredrik Loof and Max Salminen of Sweden have upset defending champions Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson of Britain to win the gold medal in the venerable Star class, making them the first champions of the London Olympics sailing regatta.

The International Sailing Federation says it is shocked that the International RS:X Class Association is taking legal action in response to a decision to drop windsurfing from sailing at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.

The South Korea Sailing Federation says coach Lee Jae-cheol has been sent home from the Olympics after being stopped by police for drunk driving after attending a banquet hosted by the mayor of Weymouth.

Kenneth Andreasen, the head coach for the U.S. Olympic sailing team, is not a man who travels lightly. He's already sent 10 shipping containers full of sailboats, motor boats, masts, sails, trailers and other marine equipment to the Olympic sailing center at Weymouth.

The wind was raging when Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark put to sea on Monday off the coast of Weymouth where, in 12 days time, they will begin sailing in pursuit of Olympic glory.

Weather forecasters are expected to work overtime in the coming weeks to provide accurate information for the sailing events during the London Olympics, beginning from July 29.

Triple Olympic champion Ben Ainslie will lead home hopes in the sport of sailing in which Great Britain leads the all-time medals table with 50, including 25 golds.