# Sailing at the 2006 Asian Games

Sailing was contested at the 2006 Asian Games from December 5 to December 13. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Doha Sailing Club.

## Schedule

| ● | Round | ● | Last round | P | Preliminary | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 5th Tue | 6th Wed | 7th Thu | 8th Fri | 10th Sun | 11th Mon | 12th Tue | 13th Wed |
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| Open match racing | | P | P | P | P | P | P | F |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Mistral light details | Chan King Yin Hong Kong | Zeng Xiaohong China | Arun Homraruen Thailand |
| Mistral heavy details | Yao Xinhao China | Ho Chi Ho Hong Kong | Oka Sulaksana Indonesia |
| Optimist details | Ni Wei China | Navee Thamsoontorn Thailand | Sean Lee Singapore |
| Laser details | Maximilian Soh Singapore | Yoichi Iijima Japan | Kim Ho-kon South Korea |
| 420 details | Singapore Justin Liu Sherman Cheng | Japan Shibuki Iitsuka Shingen Furuya | Myanmar Nay La Kyaw Min Min |
| 470 details | South Korea Kim Dae-young Jung Sung-ahn | Singapore Xu Yuan Zhen Terence Koh | Japan Kan Yamada Kenichi Nakamura |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Mistral details | Chen Lina China | Chan Wai Kei Hong Kong | Napalai Tansai Thailand |
| Optimist details | Rufina Tan Malaysia | Haruka Komiya Japan | Benjamas Poonpat Thailand |
| 420 details | Singapore Sarah Tan Lim Tze Ting | Japan Yumi Takahashi Kae Tsugaya | Myanmar Su Sandar Wai Zin April Aung |
| 470 details | Japan Ai Kondo Naoko Kamata | Singapore Toh Liying Elizabeth Tan | China Yu Chunyan Wen Yimei |

### Open

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Laser 4.7 details | Colin Cheng Singapore | Waleed Al-Sharshani Qatar | Nurul Elia Anuar Malaysia |
| Laser Radial details | Xu Lijia China | Koh Seng Leong Singapore | Rajesh Choudhary India |
| Hobie 16 details | Thailand Damrongsak Vongtim Sakda Vongtim | South Korea Park Kyu-tae Sung Chang-il | Singapore Melcolm Huang Chung Pei Quan |
| Match racing details | Singapore Ivan Tan Justin Wong Renfred Tay Teo Wee Chin Roy Tay | India Sanjeev Chauhan Girdhari Yadav Nitin Mongia Mahesh Ramchandran | South Korea Yoon Cheul Kim Tae-jung Kim Hyeong-tae Kim Sang-suk |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Singapore (SIN) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Malaysia (MAS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | India (IND) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Myanmar (MYA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (11 entries) | Totals (11 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |

## Participating nations

A total of 168 athletes from 19 nations competed in sailing at the 2006 Asian Games:
* Bahrain (9)
* China (13)
* Chinese Taipei (1)
* Hong Kong (7)
* India (9)
* Indonesia (2)
* Japan (12)
* Kazakhstan (4)
* Kuwait (6)
* Malaysia (7)
* Myanmar (8)
* Oman (3)
* Pakistan (13)
* Philippines (4)
* Qatar (14)
* Singapore (20)
* South Korea (18)
* Sri Lanka (6)
* Thailand (12)