The 2024 ILCA 7 World Championship in sailing ended today after a week of competition in Adelaide, Australia. Hosted by the Adelaide Sailing Club, this is the first time the championship has been held in the southern Australian city in the event's history since 1974.

The event also doubled as a key qualifier to the Paris 2024 Summer Games later this year, with seven sailors earning Games entry: including competitors from Guatemala, Montenegro, Chile, Denmark, India, Turkey, and Sweden. Meanwhile, the podium finishers were clarified just ahead of the medal race, with defending champion Matt Wearn, Micky Beckett, and Hermann Tomasgaard fighting for final medal positions.

In the end, Wearn captured another title ahead of Tomasgaard and Beckett, solidifying his favorite status headed into Paris this summer. Congratulations to all the medalists and to the Paris 2024 qualifiers! Complete results be found online at 2024ilca7men.ilca-worlds.org.

​2024 World ILCA 7 Championship Medalists

Matt Wearn (AUS)
Hermann Tomasgaard (NOR)
​Micky Beckett (GBR)

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The 52nd FIL Luge World Championships ended in Altenberg, Germany, after a week of competition. This was the third time that the city has hosted the event, after 1996 and 2012.

Team Germany won eight of nine golds and 16 of 27 total medals to dominate the championships last year in Oberhof. That result pushed the Germans, with 80 gold and 181 overall medals, even further atop the historical medal table. Team Austria is the only other national team to break 100 total overall medals, at 104.

The Austrians just nipped the Germans on the 2024 medal table, winning nine overall and four golds to the Germans' seven and three. Team Latvia also won seven overall, while each of their Team Mixed Relay members won an individual medal as well - the only team for that to have happened.

Congratulations to all the 2024 medalists! A recap is below, and complete results can be found online at fil-luge.org.