The 49er FX competition at the 2023 Sailing World Championships was the women's skiff event and was held in The Hague, the Netherlands, 11–18 August 2023. The entries were limited to 70 boats. The competitors participated in an opening series that was planned to 15 races, followed by a medal race. The medal race was planned for 18 August.
The competition served as a qualifying event for the 2024 Olympic sailing competition with 10 out of 20 national quota being distributed at the event.
Summary.
The entry list included Dutch back-to-back world champions Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz. van Aanholt and Duetz had also won the Paris 2024 Test Event the month before. The Netherlands duo however suffered from an injury going in to the competition. In the Sailing World Cup, Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze of Brazil had won the Trofeo Princesa Sofía, van Aanholt & Duetz had won the Semaine Olympique Française, and Marla Bergmann and Hanna Wille of Germany had won the Kiel Week.
After the first day of racing, two races being held, three teams had three points; Swedish duo Vilma Bobeck and Rebecca Netzler; Isaura Maenhaut and Anouk Geurts of Belgium; and Australian pair Olivia Price and Evie Haseldine. Swedish team continued with race wins and had six wins and three other podiums out of nine races. During Tuesday 15 August, after twelve races, Bobeck and Netzler increased their lead to 35 points in decreasing and shifty condition.
Further competition led to that Bobeck and Netzler won the gold with one day to spare. With no wind on the day of the medal race, standings were confirmed with Bobeck and Netzler as champions, van Aanholt and Duetz as silver medallists and Price and Haseldine to take the bronze medals.
With the final results, national quotas were awarded Sweden, the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, New Zealand, the United States, Norway, Spain and Denmark.