The Esailing World Championship (ESWC) 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 (OEW) and Olympics Virtual Series (OVS).
Esailing World Championship - Results Year Finals Location Winner 2nd 3rd Discipline Notes 2018 Sarasota, Florida Inshore Fleet Racing 2019 Bermuda "Velista71" - "Asere" - 2020 Virtual CNS - "Déjà Vu" - 2021 Virtual UOL - "VIT Chico" - "MCES Pepito" - 2022 Alicante "AlexK RS" - "Farley RS" - 2023 Trieste "UOL Asere" - "Farley RS" - "UOL Pepito" - 2024 Stockholm "F7 RS" - "ChicoPmelo" - "FUNe KG-R" - 2025 Gdynia "Asere" - "FSC-Kazuki" - "zemendes-RS" -
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 Country - federation Gold Silver Bronze ESWC participants 7 2018 "L1" - Elouan Le coq (FRA) 2021 France- Nation Cup 2022 "AlexK RS" - ALexandre Kowalski (FRA) 2022 France- Nation Cup 2023 "UOL Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) 2024 France- Nation Cup 2025 "Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) 3 2018 "Epicure" - O. Chapuis (FRA) 2019 "Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) 2023 France- Nation Cup 3 2021 "MCES Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA) 2023 "UOL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA) 2025 France- Nation Cup 19 3 (2018) 3 (2019) 2 (2020) 2 (2021) 2 (2022) 4 (2023) 2 (2024) 1 (2025) 2 2020 Great Britain - Nation Cup 2024 "F7 RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) 4 2021 Great Britain - Nation Cup 2022 Great Britain - Nation Cup 2022 "Farley RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) 2023 "Farley RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) 1 2020 "Déjà Vu" - Mike O'Donovan (GBR) 7 2 (2020) 2 (2021) 1 (2022) 1 (2023) 1 (2024) 2 2019 "Velista71" - Filippo Lanfranchi (ITA) 2023 Italie Nation Cup 2 2024 Italie Nation Cup 2025 Italie Nation Cup 3 2018 Alessandro Merlino (ITA) 2019 Luca Coslovich (ITA) 2021 Italie Nation Cup 11 2 (2018) 2 (2019) 1 (2021) 3 (2022) 1 (2023) 1 (2024) 1 (2025) 2 2020 Joan Cardona Méndez (ESP) 2021 UOL Carlos Parejo (ESP) 2 2020 CNS - Ramón Parejo (ESP) 2020 Spain- Nation Cup 1 2022 Spain- Nation Cup 8 1 (2018) 3 (2020) 2 (2021) 2 (2024) 1 2025 Japan Nation Cup 1 2025 FSC-Kazuki- Kazuki Miyamae 3 2023 Japan - Nation Cup 2024 "FUNe KG-R" - Toshiki Kogure (JPN) 2024 Japan - Nation Cup 9 1 (2021) 3 (2023) 2 (2024) 3 (2025) 2 2021 "VIT Chico" - Francisco Pinheiro de Melo (POR) 2024 "ChicoPmelo" - Francisco Pinheiro de Melo (POR) 1 2025 "zemendes-RS" - José Mendes (POR) 3 1 (2021) 1 (2024) 1 (2025) 1 2022 Bart Lambriex (NED) 5 1 (2019) 2 (2022) 2 (2023) 3 1 (2018) 1 (2019) 1 (2020) 3 1 (2024) 2 (2025) 3 1 (2024) 2 (2025) 2 1 (2021) 1 (2022) 2 1 (2024) 1 (2025) 1 1 (2018) 1 1 (2020) 1 1 (2022) 1 1 (2023) 1 1 (2025)
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 Boat Winner 2nd 3rd Notes Laser
49er - 6 June 2021
Boat Winner 2nd 3rd Notes 49er
Nacra - 23 June 2021 Boat Winner 2nd 3rd Notes Nacra
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.
Winner 2nd 3rd Notes
European Championship Results The Esailing European Championship was run by EUROSAF in 2023 and 2024. Year Winner 2nd 3rd Discipline 2023 Inshore Fleet Racing 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
Boat Winner 2nd 3rd Notes AC 40
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