List of Sonar (keelboat) championships

This is a list of Sonar sailboat championships.

Open Worlds Championships

Disabled World Championships

The Sonar has also been used extensively for disabled sailing. The boat specifications are exactly the same for open and disabled sailing events, but additional adaptations are allowed to be fitted to the boat to aid the crew who are not permitted to hike or use a spinnaker. The World Championships is recognised by World Sailing.

Sonar Para World Championship medallists
Year v t e	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1999 Cadiz	Germany Jens Kroker Peter Muenter Peter Reichl	Great Britain Andy Cassell Andrew Millband Brian Harding	Netherlands Udo Hessels Marcel van de Veen Mischa Rossen	^[1]
2001 Florida	Canada Brian Mackie Brian MacDonald Paul Tingley	Great Britain Andy Cassell Brian Harding Edward Suckling	Germany Jens Kroker Dietmar Steigel Peter Reichl	^[2]
2002 Medemblik	Germany Jens Kroker Dietmar Steigel Peter Reichl	Great Britain Andy Cassell Brian Harding Edward Suckling	Canada Brian Mackie Brian MacDonald Paul Tingley	^[3]
2003 Athens	Netherlands Udo Hessels Marcel van de Veen Mischa Rossen	Israel Dror Cohen Benny Vexler Michael Levy	Great Britain John Robertson Stephen Thomas Hannah Stodel	^[4]
2005 Sonderborg	Great Britain John Robertson Stephen Thomas Hannah Stodel	Norway Jostein Stordahl Aleksander Wang-Hansen Per Eugen Kristiansen	Germany Jens Kroker Holger Schonenberg Tobias Schuetz	^[5]
2006 Perth	Great Britain John Robertson Stephen Thomas Hannah Stodel	Germany Jens Kroker Sigi Mainka Tobias Schuetz	Norway Jostein Stordahl Aleksander Wang-Hansen Per Eugen Kristiansen	^[6]^[7]
2007 Rochester	United States Rick Doerr Tim Angle Bill Donahue	United States Paul Callahan Tom Brown Roger Cleworth	Germany Jens Kroker Tobias Schuetz Sigi Mainka	^[8]
2009 Athens	Germany Jens Kroker Robert Prem Siggy Mainka	Israel Dror Cohen Arnon Efrati Benny Vexler	Greece Christoforou Vasilis Notaroglou Argiris Aleksas Thodoris	^[9]^[10]^[11]
2010 Medemblik	Netherlands Udo Hessels Marcel van de Veen Mischa Rossen	Great Britain John Robertson Hannah Stodel Stephen Thomas	Germany Jens Kroker Robert Prem Siegmund Mainka	^[12]^[13]
2011 Weymouth	Israel Dror Cohen Benny Vexler Arnon Efrati	Great Britain John Robertson Hannah Stodel Stephen Thomas	Norway Aleksander Wang-Hansen Per Eugen Kristiansen Marie Solberg	^[14]^[15]
2012 Charlotte Harbor	Norway Aleksander Wang-Hansen Per Eugen Kristiansen Marie Solberg	France Bruno Jourdren Eric Flageul Nicolas Vimont-Vicary	Great Britain John Robertson Hannah Stodel Stephen Thomas	^[16]^[17]
2013 Kinsale Ireland	France Bruno Jourdren Eric Flageul Nicolas Vimont-Vicary	Netherlands Udo Hessels Marcel van de Veen Mischa Rossen	Australia Colin Harrison Jonathan Harris Russell Boaden	^[18]^[19]
2014 Halifax	France Bruno Jourdren Eric Flageul Nicolas Vimont-Vicary	Canada Paul Tingley Logan Campbell Scott Lutes	Australia Colin Harrison Jonathan Harris Russell Boaden	Canada^[20]
2015 Melbourne Australia	Great Britain John Robertson Hannah Stodel Stephen Thomas	Australia Colin Harrison Jonathan Harris Russell Boaden	Norway Aleksander Wang-Hansen Per Eugen Kristiansen Marie Solberg	^[21]^[22]

Paralympics

The Sonar has been the equipment used for the three person keelboat discipline at all Paralympic Sailing Competitions that have included sailing.

Year v t e	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1996 Atlanta Lake Lanier	Great Britain Andy Cassell Kevin Curtis Tony Downs Ian Harrison	Canada Kirk Westergaard John Mcroberts Ken Kelly David Cook	Germany Waldo Esparza James Leatherman Chris Murphy John Ross-Duggan	details
2000 Sydney	Australia Noel Robins Jamie Dunross Graeme Martin	Germany Jens Kroker Peter Muenter Peter Reichl	Canada Davis Williams Paul Tingley Brian MacDonald	details
2004 Athens	Israel Dror Cohen Arnon Efrati Benni Vexler	Netherlands Udo Hessels Marcel van de Veen Mischa Rossen	United States John Ross-Dugan Jean Paul Creignou Bradley Johnson	details
2008 Beijing Qingdoa	Germany Jens Kroker Siegmund Mainka Robert Prem	France Bruno Jourdren Eric Flageul Nicolas Vimont-Vicary	Australia Colin Harrison Russel Boaden Rodney Angwin	details
2012 London Weymouth	Netherlands Udo Hessels Marcel van de Veen Mischa Rossen	Germany Jens Kroker Siegmund Mainka Robert Prem	Norway Aleksander Wang-Hansen Marie Solberg Per Eugen Kristiansen	details
2016 Rio	Australia Colin Harrison Russell Boaden Jonathan Harris	United States Alphonsus Doerr Hugh Freund Bradley Kendell	Canada Paul Tingley Logan Campbell Scott Lutes	details

References

[1] 1999 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[2] 2001 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[3] 2002 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[4] 2003 IFDS Three Person Keelboat World Championship at World Sailing

[5] 2005 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[6] 2006 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[7] ttp://www.2006ifdsworlds.com.au^{[dead link]}

[8] 2007 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[9] 2009 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[10] "IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championship 2009". sailing.org. World Sailing.

[11] ttp://www.disabledworlds09.gr ^{[dead link]}

[12] 2010 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[13] ttp://www.ifdsworlds2010.com ^{[dead link]}

[14] 2011 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[15] ttp://www.ifdsworlds2011.com ^{[dead link]}

[16] 2012 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[17] ttp://www.ifdsworlds2012.com ^{[dead link]}

[18] 2013 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships at World Sailing

[19] ttp://www.ifdsworlds2013.com ^{[dead link]}

[20] 2014 IFDS Combined World Championships at World Sailing

[21] 2015 Para World Sailing Championships at World Sailing

[22] ttp://www.ifdsworlds2015.com ^{[dead link]}

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]

[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]