Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Soling
| Fleet/Match at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Sydney | ||||||||||||
| Dates | First race: 17 September 2000 Last race: 30 September 2000 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 48 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 16 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Mistral | men | women |
| Europe | women | |
| Laser | open | |
| Finn | men | |
| 470 | men | women |
| 49er | open | |
| Tornado | open | |
| Star | open | |
| Soling | open | |
The Soling Three Person Keelboat was sailed at the 2000 Summer Olympics held from 17 to 30 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia. The series started as a fleet race and then switched to match racing for the twelve best crew. 16 crews from 16 countries competed on 16 boats with a total of 48 sailors.
The Norwegian crew of Herman Horn Johannessen, Paul Davis and Espen Stokkeland finished first in the fleet racing stage, while Danish crew of Jesper Bank, Henrik Blakskjær and Thomas Jacobsen won the Olympic gold medal by beating the German crew of 1996 champion helmsman Jochen Schümann, Gunnar Bahr and Ingo Borkowski with 4–3 in the final series. Norway won the bronze medal through beating the Netherlands with 3–1 in matches.