Sailing at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of one event, which was open to any gender and sailed in the Sonar keelboats.https://www.sailing.org/news/14339.php This was the first time sailing has been included in the paralympics where the sport was a demonstration sport along with wheelchair rugby, and not an official part of the 14 core sports on the Paralympic program, but medals were awarded. Sailing in the 1996 Summer Olympics was held in Savannah but Paralympic event did not use those facilities, instead holding the event on Lake Lanier based around the Aqualand Marina. The distance between Savannah and Atlanta was probably the motivation for this as it was important to showcase the sport.
Rank Team R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Total Net 1 Andy Cassell, Kevin Curtis, Tony Downs, Ian Harrison 3 5 7 2 10.75 10.75 (9) 27.5 18.5 2 Kirk Westergaard, John McRoberts, Kenneth Kelly, David Cook 7 10.75 (DNS) 10.75 2 2 10 38.5 22.5 3 Waldo Esparza, James Leatherman, Christopher Murphy, John Ross-Duggan 5 4 5 4 5 (9) 4 36 27 4 Asa Llinares, Stefan Giebner, Carl-Gustaf Fresk, Lars Bagge(9) 7 4 7 3 4 10.75 34.75 25.75 5 Philippe Moerch, Peter Murset, Georges Scherler2 (10) 6 3 6 8 3 38 28 6 Christopher Wornall, Derek Stewart, Cameron Scott, Andrew May10.75 2 9 8 7 (12) 2 40.75 28.75 7 Theodorus Bouwman, Udo Hessels, Pieter van Asten, Marijke Wolfswinkel 39.75 8 Stasik Nazaryan, Armen Martirosyan, Garush Danielyan, Hayk Abgaryan 40.00 9 Donal Buckley, Kevin Downing, Michael Hendra, John Sullivan 46.00 10 Esko Miilukangas, Aarre Karjalainen, Jussi Hamalainen, Raimo Aromaa 50.00 11 Dietmar Budwill, Detlef Howah, Manfred Siekmann, Hildegard Bock 53.00 12 Juan San Emeterio, Guillermo Poyan, Jose Maria Lastra, Carlos Fernandez 56.00 13 Kjell Karlsen, Rolf Lilleaas, Jostein Stordahl, Ernst Torp 61.00 14 Yutaka Wada, Masakazu Suto, Joji Kaido, Masao Hasegawa 65.00 15 Zbigniew Czarnecki, Boguslaw Grzelak, Jan Kaleta, Jacek Osada 84.00
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