The Royal Swedish Yacht Club (Swedish: Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet, KSSS), is the largest and oldest yacht club in Sweden and one of the five oldest in the world, formed 15 May 1830. The Royal Swedish Yacht Club is also the oldest yacht club in Continental Europe.
Activities include racing, training, education, squadron sailing, match racing and club activities. The Royal Swedish Yacht Club also operates the port and has its own ports in Saltsjöbaden and Sandhamn. Every year the yacht club organizes the Round Gotland Race sailed around Gotland, and the Sandhamsregattan at Sandön, in the Stockholm archipelago.
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History
The Royal Swedish Yacht Club was founded on Skeppsholmen by O. Fresk, J. C. Fleming, C. F. Cimmerdahl, J. Falkenholm, G. E. Lundstedt, and P. A. Nordwall on 15 May 1830. In 1878, it received its royal title. The first regatta the club organised took place on 12 September 1833.
In the early 1850s Royal Swedish Yacht Club yachts Sverige and Aurora Borealis participated in races in England, and in 1854, the yacht club organised its first regatta with prizes. In 1895, Royal Swedish Yacht Club sailed together to Finland and participated in the Sinebrychoff Cup, which they won. In 1898, Royal Swedish Yacht Club sailors participated in a regatta in Norway, and in Kiel Week the year after. In 1912, the Royal Swedish Yacht Club organised the sailing event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
The first Round Gotland Race was organised 7–9 July 1937 with 42 participating boats on a 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi) course starting and finishing in Visby.
The yacht club took part founding the Swedish Sailing Federation in 1905 and Scandinavian Yacht Racing Union in 1915. Between 1893 and 1945, the Royal Swedish Yacht Club held lotteries on 65 boats to a combined worth of SEK 420,000. The Royal Swedish Yacht Club bought Lökholmen in 1945.
The Royal Swedish Yacht Club were the Challenger of Record for the 2013 America's Cup, where they were represented by Artemis Racing. Artemis Racing also completed in the 2017 America's Cup, where they were defeated by Emirates Team New Zealand in the Louis Vuitton Cup finals.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Royal Swedish Yacht Club sailors Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergström finished second in the men's 470 event, while Josefin Olsson did the same in the Laser Radial event.
Sailors
Sailors that have participated in the Summer Olympics while representing the Royal Swedish Yacht Club: