{"id":383585,"date":"2026-07-02T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383585\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:44:08","slug":"world-sailing-names-officials-for-la-2028-scuttlebutt-sailing-news-providing-sailing-news-for-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383585\/","title":{"rendered":"World Sailing names officials for LA 2028 >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing sailing news for sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Sailing, the global governing body for the sport, has approved the appointment of two Technical Delegate positions for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic sailing competition. The appointees are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ricardo Navarro, Brazil, Technical Delegate \u2013 Ricardo is the current chair of the Race Officials Committee and was the Field of Play Manager at Rio 2016 and Technical Delegate at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Ferran Muniesa, Spain, Technical Delegate \u2013 Ferran is World Sailing\u2019s Director of Events and an experienced event organizer with 17 years of experience \u2013 including 10 as Event Director \u2013 in delivering the Princess Sofia Regatta, widely regarded as setting the standard for Olympic regatta sailing over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRicardo and Ferran will be tasked with ensuring sailing at the Olympic Games will be a fair competition for all athletes, and we can all look forward to excellent sailing in Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles,\u201d said Quanhai Li, World Sailing President.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gbropes.com\/\" aria-label=\"GB-101625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GB-101625.png\" alt=\"\"   width=\"620\" height=\"149\" style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Graham, World Sailing CEO adds, \u201cBoth bring extensive experience of delivering sailing events at the highest level and understand the standards required for Olympic competition. I am confident they will help build a world-class team and work closely with LA28 and the IOC to ensure sailing delivers an exceptional Olympic regatta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic Sailing Competition at LA28 will be staged across the waters of Belmont Shore in the Venue City of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles in the Host City of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Sailing Program (July 16-28):<a name=\"more\"\/><br \/>First Week \u2013 July 16-20<br \/>Men\u2019s Kiteboard \u2013 Formula Kite Class \u2013 Long Beach, CA<br \/>Women\u2019s Kiteboard \u2013 Formula Kite Class \u2013 Long Beach, CA<br \/>Men\u2019s Windsurfing \u2013 iQFOiL \u2013 Long Beach, CA<br \/>Women\u2019s Windsurfing \u2013 iQFOiL \u2013 Long Beach, CA<\/p>\n<p>Second Week \u2013 July 23-28<br \/>Men\u2019s One Person Dinghy \u2013 ILCA 7 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Women\u2019s One Person Dinghy \u2013 ILCA 6 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Mixed Two Person Dinghy \u2013 470 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Men\u2019s Skiff \u2013 49er \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Women\u2019s Skiff \u2013 49erFX \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>Mixed Multihull \u2013 Nacra 17 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<\/p>\n<p>For more details, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailingscuttlebutt.com\/2025\/11\/13\/sailing-program-schedule-for-la28-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Sailing, the global governing body for the sport, has approved the appointment of two Technical Delegate positions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[154953,131,133,132,154954,32235,154955,89435],"class_list":["post-383585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-ferran-muniesa","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-2028-games","tag-olympic-games","tag-ricardo-navarro","tag-world-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}