Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Sailing at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venues	Tallinn Olympic Yachting Centre, Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Dates	First race: 21 July 1980 (1980-07-21) Last race: 29 July 1980 (1980-07-29)
Competitors	156 (all male) from 23 nations
Boats	83
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Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad (1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece). With the exception of 1904 and the canceled 1916 Summer Olympics, sailing has always been included on the Olympic schedule. The Sailing program of 1980 consisted of a total of six sailing classes (disciplines). For each class seven races were scheduled from 19 to 29 July 1980 of the coast of Tallinn (district of Pirita, in present-day Estonia), in that time an illegally annexed part of the USSR at the Baltic Sea. The sailing was done on the triangular type Olympic courses.^[1]