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2010 Youth Olympic Games Qualification System
Key Details
Key details from the Qualification System for Singapore 2010 are highlighted below.
Sailing Events
The events of the sailing competition at the Youth Olympic Games are as follows:
| Event |
Equipment |
Athlete Quota |
| Boys Windsurfer |
Techno 293 |
20 |
| Girls Windsurfer |
Techno 293 |
20 |
| Boys One Person Dinghy |
Byte CII |
30 |
| Girls One Person Dinghy |
Byte CII |
30 |
Age Range
The sailing events at Singapore are open to 15-16 year old, so in order to be eligible to compete at the YOG, an athlete must have been born between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1995.
Qualification Events
For each of the four sailing events, there are seven Youth Olympic Qualification Events (YOQE). The seven YOQE for each event are made up of six Continental Qualification Events and a final open qualification event. Full details on the qualification events can be found here.
Key elements of the YOQE are:
- Competitors qualify their National Olympic Committee (NOC) at a YOQE. The NOC will select its competitor for the Youth Olympic Games.
- At the Continental Qualification Events only nations within that continent will be eligible for YOG Qualification.
- The host nation automatically qualify one male and one female
- For the Youth Olympic Games an NOC can qualify One (1) Boy and One (1) Girl.
Qualification Events Quotas
The table below shows the maximum number of places available in each YOQE.
| YOQE Quotas |
Boys Windsurfer |
Girls Windsurfer |
Boys One Person Dinghy |
Girls One Person Dinghy |
TOTALS |
| Africa |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
| Asia |
2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
10 |
| Central & South America |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
8 |
| Europe |
4 |
4 |
7 |
7 |
22 |
| North America & Caribbean |
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
12 |
| Oceania |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
8 |
| Open Events |
3 |
3 |
6 |
6 |
18 |
| Host Nation/IOC Places |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
16 |
| TOTALS |
20 |
20 |
30 |
30 |
100 |
Key Dates
In addition to the dates of the YOQE, key dates in the qualification timeline are idenified below:
| 14 June 2010 |
Deadline for Unused IF Quota Place (UQP) applications |
| 15 June-14 July 2010 |
Reallocation of unused NOC universality places and final reallocation period for unused quota places |
| 15 July 2010 |
Entries deadline (by name) for all sports |
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