Sailing at the 2006 Asian Games

Sailing at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Doha Sailing Club
Dates	December 5–13, 2006
Competitors	168 from 19 nations
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Sailing was contested at the 2006 Asian Games from December 5 to December 13. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Doha Sailing Club.^[1]

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral light	Chan King Yin  Hong Kong	Zeng Xiaohong  China	Arun Homraruen  Thailand
Mistral heavy	Yao Xinhao  China	Ho Chi Ho  Hong Kong	Oka Sulaksana  Indonesia
Optimist	Ni Wei  China	Navee Thamsoontorn  Thailand	Sean Lee  Singapore
Laser	Maximilian Soh  Singapore	Yoichi Iijima  Japan	Kim Ho-kon  South Korea
420	Singapore Justin Liu Sherman Cheng	Japan Shibuki Iitsuka Shingen Furuya	Myanmar Nay La Kyaw Min Min
470	South Korea Kim Dae-young Jung Sung-ahn	Singapore Xu Yuan Zhen Terence Koh	Japan Kan Yamada Kenichi Nakamura

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral	Chen Lina  China	Chan Wai Kei  Hong Kong	Napalai Tansai  Thailand
Optimist	Rufina Tan  Malaysia	Haruka Komiya  Japan	Benjamas Poonpat  Thailand
420	Singapore Sarah Tan Lim Tze Ting	Japan Yumi Takahashi Kae Tsugaya	Myanmar Su Sandar Wai Zin April Aung
470	Japan Ai Kondo Naoko Kamata	Singapore Toh Liying Elizabeth Tan	China Yu Chunyan Wen Yimei

Open

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Laser 4.7	Colin Cheng  Singapore	Waleed Al-Sharshani  Qatar	Nurul Elia Anuar  Malaysia
Laser Radial	Xu Lijia  China	Koh Seng Leong  Singapore	Rajesh Choudhary  India
Hobie 16	Thailand Damrongsak Vongtim Sakda Vongtim	South Korea Park Kyu-tae Sung Chang-il	Singapore Melcolm Huang Chung Pei Quan
Match racing	Singapore Ivan Tan Justin Wong Renfred Tay Teo Wee Chin Roy Tay	India Sanjeev Chauhan Girdhari Yadav Nitin Mongia Ramachandran Mahesh	South Korea Yoon Cheul Kim Tae-jung Kim Hyeong-tae Kim Sang-suk

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Singapore	5	3	2	10
2	China	4	1	1	6
3	Japan	1	4	1	6
4	Hong Kong	1	2	0	3
5	Thailand	1	1	3	5
6	South Korea	1	1	2	4
7	Malaysia	1	0	1	2
8	India	0	1	1	2
9	Qatar	0	1	0	1
10	Myanmar	0	0	2	2
11	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	14	42

Participating nations

A total of 168 athletes from 19 nations competed in sailing at the 2006 Asian Games:

•  Bahrain (9)
•  China (13)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Hong Kong (7)
•  India (9)
•  Indonesia (2)
•  Japan (12)
•  Kazakhstan (4)
•  Kuwait (6)
•  Malaysia (7)
•  Myanmar (8)
•  Oman (3)
•  Pakistan (13)
•  Philippines (4)
•  Qatar (14)
•  Singapore (20)
•  South Korea (18)
•  Sri Lanka (6)
•  Thailand (12)

References

1. "With sailing rapidly gaining in popularity in this region, we take a look at the competition at the Asian Games". thedailysail.com. 1 December 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2014.

External links

• Official website