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The first "Worlds" 1962
IODA Results Archive

IODA World Championships

Venues, participation and medals from 1962
Including Results Sheets from 2000 (click year to view).

Nations Cup & Team Racing
Top nation each year from 1962

Best Ever
The best ranking by any sailor from each country

Participation Graph from 1962
Growth of number of nations participating

IODA Continental Championships

Venues, participation and medals from 2000

Girls at IODA Continentals

History

"Birth of the Optimist dinghy" (YouTube)

"Growth of the Optimist World" (YouTube)

Yearbooks 2001-2007

Remembering the Millennium

Ex-Optimists at the Olympics

Rio 2016

Tokyo 2020

Paris 2024

Women medallists

This page is created and maintained by Robert Wilkes, e-mail robert@wilkessail.net