Approximately 150 sailors in 64 boats (the numbers of boats and competitors are not reliable, as in the official report some figures of the World exhibition and the Olympic Games are mixed) from 6 nations competed, including 1 woman, Hélène de Pourtalès, who won a gold medal in the 1 to 2 ton.

[1] During the early years of the Olympic movement there were no strict rules for the assignment of venues.

The conditions during the regatta were so good that the 10 – 20 Ton class was able to sail the complete 22 nautical mile triangular course.

The premises of the Société des Régates du Havre were used as Olympic harbor.

Several teams had crews from multiple countries, and in one case, they won a gold medal.

[6] Occasionally, sources differ on the nationality of competitors (such as H. MacHenry, alternately listed as French or American).

Boats were assigned time handicaps according to their weight within each class and prizes were handed out to the winners of each race.

The data below notes all races and medalists of the regattas of the Games of the second Olympiad, as well as of the Exposition Universelle and counts all winners as medalists, because the IOC website currently affirms a total of 95 medal events in the Games.

It is not exactly certain if the prizes were cash or "objets d’art" of the values listed, thus, for now, I have retained yachting as an Olympic sport in 1900.

"[11] During the sailing regattas at the 1900 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing (or owning yachts) in the various classes: