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).

Since 2020, the Esailing Team World Championship are also organized among supporting national federations of World Sailing. The team from  Great Britain (GBR) won the first edition, followed by the team from  France (FRA) in 2021 and 2022 and the team from  Italie (ITA) in 2023

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

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Country - federation	Gold		Silver		Bronze		ESWC participants
France (FRA)	5	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)	3	2018  "Epicure" - O. Chapuis (FRA) 2019  "Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) 2023 France- Nation Cup	2	2021 "MCES Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA) 2023 "UOL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA)	16	3 (2018) 3 (2019) 2 (2020) 2 (2021) 2 (2022) 4 (2023)
Spain (ESP)	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	6	1 (2018) 3 (2020) 2 (2021)
Italie (ITA)	2	2019  "Velista71" - Filippo Lanfranchi (ITA) 2023 Italie Nation Cup			3	2018  Alessandro Merlino (ITA) 2019  Luca Coslovich (ITA) 2021 Italie Nation Cup	9	2 (2018) 2 (2019) 1 (2021) 3 (2022) 1 (2023)
Great Britain (GBR)	1	2020 Great Britain - Nation Cup	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)	6	2 (2020) 2 (2021) 1 (2022) 1 (2023)
Portugal (POR)			1	2021  "VIT Chico" - Francisco Pinheiro de Melo (POR)			1	1 (2021)
Netherlands (NED)					1	2022  Bart Lambriex (NED)	4	1 (2019) 2 (2022) 2 (2023)
Japan (JPN)					1	2023 Japan - Nation Cup	4	1 (2021) 3 (2023)
Turkiye (TUR)							3	1 (2018) 1 (2019) 1 (2020)
Greece (GRE)							2	1 (2021) 1 (2022)
New Zealand (NZL)							1	1 (2018)
Croatia (CRO)							1	1 (2020)
Germany (GER)							1	1 (2022)
Switzerland (SUI)							1	1 (2023)

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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.^[11][12]

Laser - 25 May 2021

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Boat	Winner	2nd	3rd	Notes
Laser	"Havuc" - Kaan Mazlumca (TUR)	Mike O'Donovan (GBR)	Tim Carpentier (FRA)	[13]

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49er - 6 June 2021

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Boat	Winner	2nd	3rd	Notes
49er	Lukas Mohr (DEN)	Arhur Farley (GBR)	Tangi Le Goff (FRA)	[14]

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Nacra - 23 June 2021

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Boat	Winner	2nd	3rd	Notes
Nacra	Arhur Farley (GBR)	Bart Lambriex (NED)	Joan Cardona Méndez (ESP)	[15][16]

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The Offshore Race was a race from Rio to Tokyo.

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. ^{[17] [18]}

More information Winner, 2nd ...

Winner	2nd	3rd	Notes
"UOL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA)	Cavan Fyans (GBR)	"Magic - ChicoPMelo" Francisco Melo (POR)	[19][20]

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