| Event: | Sailing |
| Games: | 1928 Summer |
| Dates: | First race: Last race: |
| Competitors: | 124 Male and 2 Female |
| Teams: | 41 |
| Team Descriptor: | Boats |
| Nations: | 23 |
| Next: | 1932 |
Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad (1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece). With the exception of 1904 and the canceled 1916 Summer Olympics, sailing has always been included on the Olympic schedule. The Sailing program of 1928 consisted of a total of three sailing classes.[1] For each class races were scheduled from 2–9 August 1928 on the Buiten Y near Amsterdam and on the Zuiderzee. The sailing was done on the triangular type Olympic courses.
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| Six Harbor | |
| Native Name: | Sixhaven |
| Native Name Lang: | NL |
| Status: | complete |
| Altitude: | Sealevel |
| Building Type: | Olympic harbor |
| Owner: | Watersportvereniging Dok- en Scheepsbouw |
| Address: | Sixhavenweg 15 |
| Location Town: | 1021 HG Amsterdam |
| Coordinates: | 52.3817°N 4.9064°W |
| Completion Date: | 1920 |
As venue for the Amsterdam Olympics the Zuiderzee near Amsterdam was chosen. The organizing committee of the sailing event was the Koninklijk Verbond Nederlandsche Watersport Vereniging. The Olympic harbor Six Harbor was on the North shore of the Y just opposite of the Amsterdam Centraal railway station. The boats were moored in the so-called 'kinderkamer' of the harbor. The Six Harbor was in that time the location of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeil- & Roeivereeniging. This resulted that all competing yachts had to go through the Oranje Locks to enter the Buiten Y and Zuiderzee. Some of the former buildings of the Six Harbor were demolished during the construction of the Amsterdam Metro North–south line.
A total of two race areas were used for sailing at the Amsterdam Olympics:
At that time the Zuiderzee had an open connection with the North Sea. The sea water was salt or at best brackish. Waves could be steep and short due to the shallow waters.In 1932 a dam was built between the North Sea and the Zuiderzee and the Zuiderzee was renamed IJsselmeer. As result of this the lake now contains fresh water. Inside the lake new land was reclaimed. At this moment the center of the 1928 6 and 8 Metre course is located in the city of Almere. Also the city of Amsterdam reclaimed land from the sea and moved towards the lake. When the sailors from the 1928 Summer Olympics could return to their venue they would hardly recognize it.
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| width=50 | Continents | width=50 | Countries | width=50 | Classes | width=50 | Boats | width=50 | Male | width=50 | Female |
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| - | - ! Class | Type | Venue | Event | Sailors | First OG | Olympics so far | - | Dinghy | 1 | 1920 | 2 | - | 6 Metre | Keelboat | Zuiderzee | 3 | 1908 | 5 | - | 8 Metre | Keelboat | Zuiderzee | 6 | 1908 | 5 | - | Legend: = Mixed gender event | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| bgcolor=#00cc33 align=center | ● | Opening ceremony | bgcolor=#3399ff align=center | ● | Event competitions | bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center | ● | Event finals | ● | Closing ceremony |
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| 26th Thu | 27th Fri | 28th Sat | 29th Sun | 30th Mon | 31st Tue | 1st Wed | 2nd Thu | 3rd Fri | 4th Sat | 5th Sun | 6th Mon | 7th Tue | 8th Wed | 9th Thu | 10th Fri | 11th Sat | 12th Sun | |||||||||
| Sailing | bgcolor=#3399ff | ● ● ● | bgcolor=#3399ff | ● ● ● | bgcolor=#3399ff | ● ● ● | bgcolor=#3399ff | ● ● ● | bgcolor=#cedff2 | Spare day | bgcolor=#ffcc00 | ● ● ● | bgcolor=#ffcc00 | ● ● ● | bgcolor=#ffcc00 | ● ● | ||||||||||
| Total gold medals | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | bgcolor=#00cc33 align=center | ● | bgcolor=#ee3333 align=center | ● | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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This Olympic sailing regatta can be considered as the first Olympic regatta with a high quality of racing since there were:
During the sailing regattas at the 1928 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes: