# Sailing at the 1924 Summer Olympics

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 1924 consisted of a total of three sailing classes (disciplines). For each of the classes the event an elimination round, semi-finals and finals were scheduled. The French National Monotype 1924 was on the program from 10 to 13 July. The Metre classes (6 and 8) had their races from 21 to 26 July.

## Venue
### Meulan

Meulan was the venue for the Olympic regatta's in the French National Monotype. The host club for the 1924 Olympic Sailing at Meulan was the Cercle de la Voile de Paris. Like in 1900 the race conditions at Meulan during the Olympic regatta were not ideal. The light breeze during the first elimination series could hardly make the sailing interesting. When the wind picked up in the second series the conditions must have improved. During the first semi-final the wind came from South East. As a result, the yachts could sail most of the course without tacking or jibing, therefore not challenging the capabilities of the sailors. In the second semi-final however the wind shifted to East-North-East so that tacking was needed in the final legs of the laps.

### Le Havre

Le Havre was the venue for the Olympic regattas for the 6 and 8 Metre. The host club for the 1924 Olympic Sailing at Le Havre was the Société des Régates du Havre. Due to the Easterly winds the courses at Le Havre were mostly reaches. As result sailing a windward leg was not really tested. This however was more or less custom for that time.

### Course areas
## Competition
### Overview

| Continents | Countries | Classes | Entries | Male | Female |
| 4 | 19 | 3 | 31 | 62 | 1 |
This was the first Olympic where just one boat per country per class was allowed.

### Continents

| Map of Participating Sailing Continents at the 1924 Summer Olympics ● Green = Participating for the first time ● Blue = Participating ● Light Blue = Have previously participated | ● Africa ● Europe ● North America ● South America |

### Countries

| Map of Participating Sailing Countries at the 1924 Summer Olympics ● Green = Participating for the first time ● Blue = Participating ● Light Blue = Have previously participated | Argentina (5)  Belgium (8)  Canada (1)  Cuba (3)  Czechoslovakia (1)  Denmark (4)  Finland (1)  France (9)  Great Britain (5)  Italy (3) | Monaco (1)  Netherlands (4)  Norway (9)  Poland (1)  Portugal (1)  South Africa (1)  Spain (3)  Switzerland (1)  Sweden (4) |

### Classes (equipment)

After the enormous number of classes used during the Olympic sailing event of 1920 the International Yacht Racing Union decided that for 1924 just three classes would be used. The choice was made in favor of two Metre classes (6 and 8) and monotype (One Design) class.
The 1924 Olympic classes :
| Class | Type | Venue | Sailors | First OG | Olympics so far |
| French National Monotype | Dinghy | Meulan | 1 | 1924 | 1 |
| 6 Metre | Keelboat | Le Havre | 3 | 1908 | 4 |
| 8 Metre | Keelboat | Le Havre | 5 | 1908 | 4 |
| Legend: = Mixed gender event |||||||
| The 1924 Olympic Classes in action French National Monotype 1924 6 Metre 8 Metre |||||||

## Race schedule

| ● | Opening ceremony | ● | Event competitions | ● | Event finals | ● | Closing ceremony |
| Date | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July | July |
| Date | 5 Sat | 6 Sun | 7 Mon | 8 Tue | 9 Wed | 10 Thu | 11 Fri | 12 Sat | 13 Sun | 14 Mon | 15 Tue | 16 Wed | 17 Thu | 18 Fri | 19 Sat | 20 Sun | 21 Mon | 22 Tue | 23 Wed | 24 Thu | 25 Fri | 26 Sat | 27 Sun |
| Date | | | | | | Meulan | Meulan | Meulan | Meulan | | | | | | | | Le Havre | Le Havre | Le Havre | Le Havre | Le Havre | Le Havre | |
| Sailing | | | | | | ● | ● | ● | ● | | | | | | | | ● ● | ● ● | ● ● | | ● ● | ● ● | |
| Total gold medals | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | |
| Ceremonies | ● | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ● |

## Medal summary

Source:
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1924: Monotype details | Belgium (BEL) Léon Huybrechts | Norway (NOR) Henrik Robert | Finland (FIN) Hans Dittmar |
| 1924: 6 Metre details | Norway (NOR) Anders Lundgren Christopher Dahl Eugen Lunde | Denmark (DEN) Vilhelm Vett Knud Degn Christian Nielsen | Netherlands (NED) Johan Carp Anthonij Guépin Jan Vreede |
| 1924: 8 Metre details | Norway (NOR) Carl Ringvold Rick Bockelie Harald Hagen Ingar Nielsen Carl Ringvold Jr. | Great Britain (GBR) Ernest Roney Harold Fowler Edwin Jacob Thomas Riggs Walter Riggs | France (FRA) Louis Breguet Pierre Gauthier Robert Girardet André Guerrier Georges Mollard |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
The official report used a point system to give participating nations an overall rank in the sport:
| Rank | Country | 1st place | 1st place | 2nd place | 2nd place | 3rd place | 3rd place | 4th place | 4th place | 5th place | 5th place | 6th place | 6th place | Total |
| Rank | Country | Places | Points | Places | Points | Places | Points | Places | Points | Places | Points | Places | Points | Points |
| 1 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 20 | 1 | 5 | | | | | | | | | 25 |
| 2 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 10 | | | | | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1½ | | | 14½ |
| 3 | Netherlands (NED) | | | | | 1 | 4 | | | 1 | 2 | | | 6 |
| 4 | France (FRA) | | | | | 1 | 4 | | | 1 | 1½ | | | 5½ |
| 5 | Denmark (DEN) | | | 1 | 5 | | | | | | | | | 5 |
| 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | | | 1 | 5 | | | | | | | | | 5 |
| 7 | Finland (FIN) | | | | | 1 | 4 | | | | | | | 4 |
| 8 | Sweden (SWE) | | | | | | | 1 | 3 | | | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Spain (ESP) | | | | | | | 1 | 3 | | | | | 3 |
| 10 | Argentina (ARG) | | | | | | | | | 1 | 2 | | | 2 |