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Wouter:
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I seem to remember Hobie cat Corp making big splashes about how the 2004 H16 Worlds was the largest ever. But even it is wasn;t that that worlds in Dubai (1996 ?) was and theirfor in the 90's the cat sailing as reflected by the worlds was bigger than the Worlds in the 70's and 80's.


I was doing some Google'ing for something else and came across the Dubai '96 Hobie 16 Worlds Web site (still active). According to the numbers posted there, there were:

20 in the Women's event
191 in the qualifying event
112 in the open event
-33 that qualified to the opens from the qualifyer
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290 total teams.

There was no separate Master's event - they were just scored separately from the qualifying / open events.

In Mexico of this year, there were:
58 in a separate Masters event
18 in the Women's event
32 in the Junior event
120 in the qualifying event (entry restricted)
121 in the open event (entry restricted)
-28 that qualified to the opens from the qualifyer
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321 total teams

(You could argue that many of the Women's/Youth/Master's events also sailed in the qualifying / open round and you'd be right - there were 36 in the Master's event alone that sailed in the later events. But I choose to count them separately since they sailed in a separate event.)

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