The ISAF Athlete Participation provided support to sailors from emerging nations for the fourth consecutive year at the 2006 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship hosted in Weymouth, Great Britain.

The World Youth Sailing Trust funded the appointment of Jim Saltonstall as the Championship coach, and the Royal Yachting Association provided two additional coaches thereby ensuring that there will be one coach on each of the three course areas during racing, making them better able to give that all important de-brief at the end of each day's racing.

In 2006 ISAF was delighted to welcome Barbados, Jamaica and Pakistan to The ISAF Youth World Championships for the first time, and welcomed back Columbia after a 12 year absence.

The 26 sailors funded in 2006 were:

Nation	Name	Event	Age	Position
ARG	Nahuel Abram	Boy's Windsurfing - RS:X		18 / 29
ARG	Mariela Salerno	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		21 / 42
BAH	Kai Chaplin	Boy's One Person Dinghy - Laser		41 / 42
BAR	Gregory Douglas	Boy's One Person Dinghy - Laser		32 / 44
BUL	Yoan Georgiev Kolev	Boy's Windsurfing - RS:X		24 / 29
BUL	Yana Markova	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		32 / 42
CHI	Arantza Gumucio Jaras	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		18 / 42
COL	Maria Claudia Ramirez	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		42 / 42
CUB	Jesus Alberto Gallardo Cabrera			DNC
CUB	Liliana Roman Jordan			DNC
CUB	Pedro Luis Leiva Hernandez			DNC
CUB	Clairen Diaz Alonso			DNC
ESA	Luis Roberto Ramirez Herrera	Boy's One Person Dinghy - Laser		44 / 44
ISV	Cy Thompson	Boy's One Person Dinghy - Laser		14 / 44
JAM	Beverly Gomez			DNC
LAT	Anna Aile	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		37 / 44
LTU	Ausra Mileviciute	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		6 / 42
PAK	Ujula Mir Masood	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		41 / 42
PER	Alvaro Galdos	Boy's Windsurfing - RS:X		28
PUR	Angela Albela	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		25 / 42
SEY	Beth Gertrude	Girl's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial		38 /42
SEY	Jean Shrone	Boy's Wndsurfing - RS:X		23
SVK	Nikola Ocenasova & Lucia Olsonova	Girl's Two Person Dinghy - 420		20 / 24