Sailing at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
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 Paralympic Sailing | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Lake Lanier, Aqualand Marin | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 59 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
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Sailing at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of one event, which was open to any gender and sailed in the Sonar keelboats.[1] This was the first time sailing has been included in the paralympics where the sport was a demonstration sport along with wheelchair rugby, and not an official part of the 14 core sports on the Paralympic program, but medals were awarded. Sailing in the 1996 Summer Olympics[2] was held in Savannah but Paralympic event did not use those facilities, instead holding the event on Lake Lanier based around the Aqualand Marina.[3] The distance between Savannah and Atlanta was probably the motivation for this as it was important to showcase the sport.
| Rank | Team | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | Total | Net |
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| 1 |  Great Britain (GBR)Andy Cassell, Kevin Curtis, Tony Downs, Ian Harrison | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 0.75 | 1 0.75 | (9) | 27.5 | 18.5 |
| 2 | .svg.png){kind=small} Canada (CAN)Kirk Westergaard, John McRoberts, Kenneth Kelly, David Cook | 7 | 1 0.75 | (DNS) | 1 0.75 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 38.5 | 22.5 |
| 3 |  United States (USA)Waldo Esparza, James Leatherman, Christopher Murphy, John Ross-Duggan | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | (9) | 4 | 36 | 27 |
| 4 |  Sweden (SWE)Asa Llinares, Stefan Giebner, Carl-Gustaf Fresk, Lars Bagge | (9) | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 0.75 | 34.75 | 25.75 |
| 5 |  Switzerland (SUI)Philippe Moerch, Peter Murset, Georges Scherler | 2 | (10) | 6 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 38 | 28 |
| 6 |  New Zealand (NZL)Christopher Wornall, Derek Stewart, Cameron Scott, Andrew May | 1 0.75 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | (12) | 2 | 40.75 | 28.75 |
| 7 |  Netherlands (NED)Theodorus Bouwman, Udo Hessels, Pieter van Asten, Marijke Wolfswinkel | 39.75 | ||||||||
| 8 |  Armenia (ARM)Stasik Nazaryan, Armen Martirosyan, Garush Danielyan, Hayk Abgaryan | 40.00 | ||||||||
| 9 |  Ireland (IRL)Donal Buckley, Kevin Downing, Michael Hendra, John Sullivan | 46.00 | ||||||||
| 10 |  Finland (FIN)Esko Miilukangas, Aarre Karjalainen, Jussi Hamalainen, Raimo Aromaa | 50.00 | ||||||||
| 11 |  Germany (GER)Dietmar Budwill, Detlef Howah, Manfred Siekmann, Hildegard Bock | 53.00 | ||||||||
| 12 |  Spain (ESP)Juan San Emeterio, Guillermo Poyan, Jose Maria Lastra, Carlos Fernandez | 56.00 | ||||||||
| 13 |  Norway (NOR)Kjell Karlsen, Rolf Lilleaas, Jostein Stordahl, Ernst Torp | 61.00 | ||||||||
| 14 | .svg.png){kind=small} Japan (JPN)Yutaka Wada, Masakazu Suto, Joji Kaido, Masao Hasegawa | 65.00 | ||||||||
| 15 |  Poland (POL)Zbigniew Czarnecki, Boguslaw Grzelak, Jan Kaleta, Jacek Osada | 84.00 |
References
- ^ https://www.sailing.org/news/14339.php Archived 2021-09-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Paralympic Games | Winter, Summer, Past, Future Paralympics".
- ^ "Aqualand Marina". 20 August 2014.
- Sailing at the 1996 Summer Paralympics (Atlanta) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)
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