The next Olympic games to see a woman win a medal were the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp (BEL) where Dorothy Wright (GBR) was also part of the Gold Medal winning 7 Metre Class crew.

It was another 8 years during the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam (NED) for the next women medallist. This time the honors went to Virginie Heriot (FRA) who took the Gold Medal as part of a crew of 6 in the 8 Metre Class.

The 8 year cycle for women winning medals was repeated again as it was not until the 1936 Olympics in Berlin (GER) that another woman could take to the podium. Dagmar Salen (SWE) was part of the Bronze Medal crew of 5 in the 6 Metre Class.

After the break in Olympic Games for World War II there were no women medallists until the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki (FIN). This time two women went home with medals Vibeker Lunde (NOR) won the Silver Medal as part of the crew of 3 in the 5.5 Metre Class and Emelyn Whiton was one of 6 crew members who took the Gold Medal in the 6 Metre Class.

1988 and the Olympics in Seoul (KOR) saw for the first time the introduction of a women's event for sailing. This trend has continued and there were four women's events for the first time at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens (GRE) when a women's keelboat class, the Yngling, was introduced.

The tables below indicate the medal winners in the women's events for the 1988 Olympics onwards.

Double-handed dinghy women - 470

Single-handed dinghy women - Europe

Women's keelboat - Yngling

Windsurfer Women - Mistral

Windsurfer Women - Lechner