# 2006 ISAF World Sailing Games

The 2006 ISAF World Sailing Games was held at Lake Neusiedl, Austria 10–20 May.
The events were 420 team racing, 470 (men and women), 49er, women's Hobie 16, Hobie Tiger, men's Laser, women's Laser Radial, and RS:X (men and women). In the 2006 event, sailors from similar classes were invited to participate, e.g. the medalists from 2005 Finn Gold Cup and the world champions in Byte, Contender, and OK were invited to the men's one-person dinghy event in Laser.

## Competition format
### Events and equipment

Of each countries entries, two were initially accepted: the first entry from the country and the entry that was best-ranked on the most recent ISAF World Sailing Rankings for the corresponding Olympic event. Additionally, the organising committee could accept the second-fastest entry per country if the quota of the event was not yet reached. Champions and medalists of the latest World championships could enter outside the national restrictions as listed below. Also top-ten of the 15 February 2006 ISAF World Sailing Rankings and current World champions in Olympic classes (except Yngling, Finn and Star), as well as top-four of the 2005 Team Sailing World Championships were qualified.
| Event | Equipment | Max. entries | Invited medalists or champions |
| Men's one-person dinghy | Laser | 100 | Finn (3), Byte (1), Contender (1), OK (1) |
| Men's two-person dinghy | 470 | 80 | 420 (1), 505 (1), Flying Dutchman (1) |
| Men's multihull | Hobie Tiger | 60 | A-Catamaran (1), Dart 18 (1), Formula 18 (1), Hobie 16 (1), Hobie Tiger (1) |
| Men's windsurfer | RS:X | 80 | |
| Women's one-person dinghy | Laser Radial | 80 | Europe (1) |
| Women's two-person dinghy | 470 | 50 | |
| Women's multihull | Hobie 16 | 40 | Hobie 16 (women) (3) |
| Women's windsurfer | RS:X | 60 | |
| Open skiff | 49er | 50 | |
| Team sailing | 420 | | |

### Invited sailors

| Criteria | Men | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women | Women | Open | Open |
| Criteria | Laser | 470 | Hobie Tiger | RS:X | Laser Radial | 470 | Hobie 16 | RS:X | 49er | Team |
| ISAF World Sailing Rankings top ten | Robert Scheidt Paul Goodison Andreas Geritzer Vasilij Žbogar Mate Arapov Gustavo Lima Félix Pruvot Tom Slingsby Bernard Luttmer Matías del Solar | Gideon Kliger Álvaro Marinho Benjamin Bonnaud Gabrio Zandonà Sven Coster Nic Asher Nick Rogers Dmitri Berezkin Ger Owens Matthias Schmid | | | Paige Railey Laura Baldwin Krystal Weir Anna Tobias Lisa Ross Elizabeth Vickers Andrea Brewster Jennifer Spalding Solenne Brain Keamia Rasa | Ingrid Petitjean Christina Bassadone Sylvia Vogl Marcelien de Koning Nike Kornecki Therese Torgersson Natalia Vía Dufresne Pippa Wilson Jennifer Provan María Fernanda Sesto | — | | | — |
| Class WC winners | Robert Scheidt | Wilmot & Page | Echávarri & Paz | Nicolas Huguet | Paige Railey | de Koning & Berkhout | — | Blanca Manchón | Luka & Leonchuk | USA 1 USA 2 Great Britain 1 Great Britain 2 |
| Other WC winners | Ben Ainslie Aimilios Papathanasiou Chris Cook Byte champion Jan von der Bank Nick Craig | 420 champions 505 champions Bojsen-Møller & Bojsen-Møller | A-Catamaran champions Dart 18 champions Formula 18 champions Hobie 16 champions Hobie Tiger champions | — | Europe champion | — | Hobie 16 (women) 1 Hobie 16 (women) 2 Hobie 16 (women) 3 | — | — | — |
* ↑ Tornado as the Olympic class

## Summary
### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia (AUS) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Germany (GER) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (11 entries) | Totals (11 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |

### Event medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 420 (team racing) | United States Danny Pletsch Carolyn Howe Caleb Silsby Paige Silsby | Great Britain Rob Sherrington Linda Eadie Steve Tylecote Debs Kershaw | United States Tim Wadlow Ery Largary Timothy Fallon Karen Renzulli |
| Men's 470 | Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page | France Benjamin Bonnaud Romain Bonnaud | Spain Kiko Sánchez Alejandro Ramos |
| Women's 470 | France Ingrid Petitjean Nadège Douroux | Australia Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson | Ukraine Ruslana Taran Olena Pakholchyk |
| 49er | Spain Iker Martínez de Lizarduy Xabier Fernández | Ukraine Rodion Luka George Leonchuk | Italy Pietro Sibello Gianfranco Sibello |
| Hobie 16 | Germany Kerstin Wichardt Anja Hafke | France Marie Duvignac Pauline Thevenot | United States Annie Gardner Susan Korzeniewski |
| Hobie Tiger | Australia Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby | Netherlands Mitch Booth Herbert Dercksen | Netherlands Coen de Koning Mischa Heemskerk |
| Laser | Tom Slingsby (AUS) | Thomas Le Breton (FRA) | Diego Romero (ARG) |
| Laser Radial | Paige Railey (USA) | Sophie de Turckheim (FRA) | Sarah Blanck (AUS) |
| Men's RS:X | Max Oberemko (UKR) | Tom Ashley (NZL) | Julien Bontemps (FRA) |
| Women's RS:X | Chen Qiubin (CHN) | Olga Maslivets (UKR) | Blanca Manchón (ESP) |