Esailing World Championship


The Esailing World Championship is an annual esports competition, first held in 2018 and officially recognized by World Sailing the main sports governing body.
Esailing consists of real time regatta simulation via video game.
The video game support of the competition since 2018 is provided by the French company Virtual Regatta. Esailing is also one of the esport disciplines selected by the International Olympic Committee for the Olympics Esports Weeks and Olympics Virtual Series.

Esailing World Championship - Results

Team Esailing World Championship - nations'Cup

Since 2020, the Esailing Team World Championship are also organized among supporting national federations of World Sailing. The team from won the first edition, followed by the team from in 2021,2022,2024, the team from in 2023 and the team from in 2025.

Esailing Nations Medal Scoreboard

Ranking of nation by medal obtained in Esailing World Championships from World Sailing

Olympics Virtual Series (OVS) Esailing Champions

During the Spring 2021, The Olympics Virtual Series where held. For the first time, 5 esports disciplines organized esport Competition under the Olympic realm.
Esailing being one of the 5 selected esports.
The Inshore Series featured three action-fueled events which each crowned a winner and runners-up. The three events were split into three boat types; the 49’er, Laser and Nacra 17, and took place on the shores of Kiel, Rio de Janeiro and Marseille.

Laser - 25 May 2021

49er - 6 June 2021

BoatWinner2nd3rdNotes
49erLukas Mohr|DEN

Nacra - 23 June 2021

The Offshore Race was a race from Rio to Tokyo.

Olympics Esports Week (OEW) - Esailing - Singapore 2023

As a follow-up to 2021's Olympic Virtual Series, the IOC and the Singapore National Olympic Council held the inaugural Olympic Esports Week in Singapore in June 2023. Several Sports Games were part of the event including esailing whose finale was held on 23 June.
Winner2nd3rdNotes
"UOL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier |FRA

European Championship Results

The Esailing European Championship was run by EUROSAF in 2023 and 2024.

2024 America's Cup Eseries

In September 2024, The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup has entered into esport with AC Sailing and the first-ever esport AC championship.
The competition consisted of six weekly online qualifier rounds, with the winners earning their spot in the America’s Cup e-Series Grand Final.
Two additional wild-card players joined the live final held on September 28th in Barcelona.
The final saw the victory of Liam Dimock | EsailingCentral from New Zealand after 5 contested Races, bringing home the trophy and 25000€ cash prize.
The competition was held using the America Cup sailing simulator game, developed & published by Emirates Team New Zealand
BoatWinner2nd3rdNotes
AC 40"EsailingCentral" - Liam Dimock|NZL