Officially recognised world championships are sanctioned by World Sailing formerly the International Sailing Federation. Sailing as a sport has probably the most number of World Championship title with well over 100 titles awarded many to two or more people awarded annually.
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Type of World Championships
The number of titles is due to the divercity of equipment. Sanction World Championships fall into the following categories:
Class World Championships
See also: Category:Classes of World Sailing
All class that are member of the World Sailing may hold class world championships provided they meet the federation participation requirements.
WS Initiated World Championships
Sanctioned World Championships
Other Events
Multiple World Champions
This is not a complete list but the following are known to have won eight or more World Championship titles.
List of World Championships Titles
This is an incomplete list of world championship titles that have been awarded to winner of individual events. (It does not include title awarded to sub categories with an event.)