Lake Neusiedl, Austria : With the publishing of the website and the presentation of the programme the official kick off for the ISAF World Sailing Games 2006 is done.
The venue will be the Lake Neusiedl, Austria's biggest lake and well known from a large number of major events: 470 Youth Worlds in 2003, 2002 Mistral European Championship and Laser Radial European Championship in the last years. Lake Neusiedl offers very good wind conditions, especially in May.
The average water depth of 1.5 metres will not allow for a keelboat event, and as a replacement Team Racing will be introduced. The nine events are :
- Single-Handed Men and Women
- Double-Handed Men and Women
- Windsurfer Men and Women
- Multihull Open
- High Performance Double-Handed DinghyOpen
- Team Racing
The Team Racing, Multihull Open and High Performance Dinghy will offer best pictures for the media and generate considerable interest for spectators. The organisers are aiming for 900 competitors from over 60 countries and for over 100,000 spectators during the ten days of competition in May 2006.
There will be a qualification series over the first five days. To reduce the time to reach the race areas the fleets will be located at five towns around the lake. For the finals the top 10 ranked sailors in the current ISAF World Sailing Rankings will be seated. This system offers a large number of countries and the best sailors in the world at the World Sailing Games.
An alliance for financial aid was with the four main parties (Federal Government, county, Austrian Sailing Federation and ISAF World Sailing Games 2006 execution LTD) was signed by Austria's Sport Ministry and the Governor of Burgenland afterwards at the Competence Centre for Sailing & Surfing in Neusiedl am See.
Fédération { 04/11/2004 }
