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The inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will be held in Singapore in August 2010 and feature 100 young sailors competing across four sailing events.

Boys Windsurfer - Techno 293
Boys One Person Dinghy - Byte CII
Girls Windsurfer - Techno 293
Girls One Person Dinghy - Byte CII

The sailing events at Singapore are open to 15-16 year olds, 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 - Boys One Person Dinghy and Girls One Person Dinghy (Byte CII)

The Notice of Races for the YOG Qualifiers for Asia, North America & the Caribbean, South & Central America, and Europe are now posted on the Byte Class Championship website - www.bytechamps.org. The NOR for the Byte CII World Championship and Open Qualifier will follow shortly on the same website.

The Oceania Qualifier will be sailed in the Laser 4.7 as part of the Australian Youth Championship and the NOR for this event is posted on the Yachting Australia website at www.youthchamps.org.au. There is also a link to this website from the www.bytechamps.org site.

Final dates and locations of these events are as follows:

(Qualifier - Venue - Dates)

Africa - NOT YET DECIDED
Asia - Pattaya, Thailand - 23-29 November 2009
North America & Caribbean - Grand Cayman - 10-15 March 2010
Europe - Imperia, Italy - 3-7 December 2009
Central & South America - Sao Paulo, Brazil - 25-31 January 2010
Oceania - Largs, Australia - 6-10 January 2010 (this event is being run in Laser 4.7)
Byte CII World Championship and Open Qualifier - Cannes, France - 6-11 April 2010

Qualification Events - Boys Windsurfer and Girls Windsurfer (Techno 293)

The Notice of Races for the YOG Qualifiers for Asia, South and Central America, Oceania and Europe are now posted on the Techno 293 class website at www.techno293.org. The NOR for North America & Caribbean (inc Mexico), Africa, and World Open Qualifier, will follow shortly on the same website.

Final dates and locations of these events are as follows:

(Qualifier - Venue - Dates)

Europe - Cadiz, Spain - 27 December 2009-3 January 2010
Oceania - Largs, Australia - 6-10 January 2010
Asia - Pattaya, Thailand - 15-23 January 2010
Central & South America - Sao Paulo, Brazil - 25-31 January 2010

The following are to be confirmed by publication of the NoR

World Championship and Open Qualifier - Cannes, France, April 6 - 11, 2010
North America & Caribbean - Florida, USA - early March
Africa, Tunis, Tunisia - late March

For each of the four sailing events, there are seven Youth Olympic Qualification Events (YOQE). Competitors qualify their National Olympic Committee (NOC) at a YOQE, and the NOC will then select its competitor for that event. In order to make the YOG as accessible to as many nations as possible, there is a maximum of one male and one female athlete per NOC for all events. In addition, the host nation automatically qualifies one male and one female and 14 of the 100 places are reserved as NOC Universality Places to be assigned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Click here to view full details on the qualification system for the sailing events at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

Click here to view the qualification events for the sailing events at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

Find out more on the Youth Olympic Games at www.sailing.org/youtholympicgames.

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