2008 Summer Olympics / Sailing

Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Qingdao
Competition venue	International sailing center
Nations	62
Athletes	400 (261 , 139 )
date	August 9-21, 2008
decisions	11
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Eleven sailing competitions were held at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . The competitions took place from August 9 to 21, 2008. The venue was the Qingdao International Sailing Center , a competition venue outside Beijing.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
01	Great Britain	4th	1	1	5
02	Australia	2	1	-	3
03	Spain	1	1	-	2
	United States	1	1	-	2
05	People's Republic of China	1	-	1	2
06th	Denmark	1	-	-	1
	New Zealand	1	-	-	1
08th	Netherlands	-	2	-	2
09	France	-	1	2	3
10	Italy	-	1	1	2
11	Lithuania	-	1	-	1
	Slovenia	-	1	-	1
13	Brazil	-	1	1	2
14th	Argentina	-	-	1	1
	Germany	-	-	1	1
	Greece	-	-	1	1
	Israel	-	-	1	1
	Sweden	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Windsurfing	Tom Ashley	Julien Bontemps	Shahar Zubari
laser	Paul Goodison	Vasilij Žbogar	Diego Romero
470s	Australia Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	Great Britain Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield	France Nicolas Charbonnier Olivier building set
star	Great Britain Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	Brazil Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada	Sweden Fredrik Lööf Anders Ekström

Women

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Windsurfing	Yin Jian	Alessandra Sensini	Bryony Shaw
Laser Radial	Anna Tunnicliffe	Gintarė Volungevičiūtė	Xu Lijia
470s	Australia Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson	Netherlands Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout	Brazil Fernanda Oliveira Isabel Swan
Yngling	Great Britain Sarah Ayton Sarah Webb Pippa Wilson	Netherlands Mandy Mulder Annemieke Bes Merel Witteveen	Greece Sofia Bekatorou Sofia Papadopoulou Virginia Kravarioti

Open

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Finn dinghy	Ben Ainslie	Zach Railey	Guillaume Florent
49er	Denmark Jonas Warrer Martin Kirketerp	Spain Iker Martínez Xabier Fernández	Germany Jan-Peter Peckolt Hannes Peckolt
tornado	Spain Fernando Echávarri Antón Paz	Australia Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby	Argentina Santiago Lange Carlos Espínola

Results men

Windsurfing

space	country	athlete	Points
1	NZL	Tom Ashley	52
2	FRA	Julien Bontemps	53
3	ISR	Shahar Zubari	58
4th	GBR	Nick Dempsey	60
5	BRA	Ricardo Santos	77
6th	HKG	Chan King Yin	84
7th	CHN	Wang Aichen	95
8th	GRE	Nikolaos Kaklamanakis	97

Date: August 20, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

laser

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GBR	Paul Goodison	63
2	SLO	Vasilij Žbogar	71
3	ITA	Diego Romero	75
4th	POR	Gustavo Lima	76
5	NZL	Andrew Murdoch	81
6th	SWE	Rasmus Myrgren	83
7th	ARG	Julio Alsogaray	92
8th	FRA	Jean Baptiste Bernaz	104

Date: August 19, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

43 sailors took part in this class. The Austrian Andreas Geritzer was 19th with 157 points, the Swiss Christoph Bottoni was 37th with 241 points.

470s

space	country	athlete	Points
1	OUT	Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	44
2	GBR	Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield	45
3	FRA	Nicolas Charbonnier Olivier building set	78
4th	NED	Sven Coster, Kalle Coster	78
5	ESP	Onan Barreiros Aarón Sarmiento	87
6th	ITA	Gabrio Zandoná Andrea Trani	91
7th	JPN	Tetsuya Matsunaga Taro Ueno	97
8th	POR	Alvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes	102

Date: August 18, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

The Swiss Tobias Etter and Felix Steiger achieved 23rd place with 162 points.

star

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GBR	Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	45
2	BRA	Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada	53
3	SWE	Fredrik Lööf Anders Ekström	53
4th	POLE	Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Życki	59
5	SUI	Flavio Marazzi Enrico De Maria	59
6th	FRA	Xavier Rohart Pascal Rambeau	69
7th	GER	Marc Pickel Ingo Borkowski	70
8th	POR	Alfonso Domingos Bernardo Plantier Santos	72

Date: August 21, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

Results women

Windsurfing

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	CHN	Yin Jian	39
2	ITA	Alessandra Sensini	40
3	GBR	Bryony Shaw	45
4th	ESP	Marina Alabau	54
5	OUT	Jessica Crisp	66
6th	NZL	Barbara Kendall	75
7th	POLE	Zofia Noceti-Klepacka	82
8th	UKR	Olha Masliwez	83

Date: August 20, 208, 1:00 p.m.

Laser Radial

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	United States	Anna Tunnicliffe	37
2	LTU	Gintarė Volungevičiūtė	42
3	CHN	Xu Lijia	50
4th	OUT	Sarah Blanck	62
5	FRA	Sarah Steyaert	77
6th	SUI	Nathalie Brugger	90
7th	NZL	Jo Aleh	90
8th	BEL	Evi Van Acker	91

Date: August 19, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

There were 28 women sailors in this class. The German Petra Niemann took 15th place with 109 points.

470s

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	OUT	Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson	43
2	NED	Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout	53
3	BRA	Fernanda Oliveira Isabel Swan	60
4th	ISR	Nike Kornecki Vered Bouskila	66
5	ITA	Giulia Conti Giovanna Micol	75
6th	GBR	Christina Bassadone Saskia Clark	82
7th	CZE	Lenka Šmídová Lenka Mrzílková	83
8th	AUT	Sylvia Vogl Carolina Flatscher	84

Date: August 18, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

The Swiss Emmanuelle Rol and Anne-Sophie Thilo achieved 17th place with 114 points.

Yngling

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	GBR	Sarah Ayton Sarah Webb Pippa Wilson	24
2	NED	Mandy Mulder Annemieke Bes Merel Witteveen	31
3	GRE	Sofia Bekatorou Sofia Papadopoulou Virginia Kravarioti	48
4th	GER	Ulrike Schümann Ute Höpfner Julia Bleck	56
5	FRA	Anne Le Helley Catherine Lepesant Julie Fair	56
6th	RUS	Ekaterina Skudina Diana Kruzkich Natalja Ivanova	56
7th	United States	Sally Barkow Carolyn Howe Deborah Capozzi	61
8th	CHN	Xiagun Song Yanli Yu Xiaoni Li	63

Date: August 17, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

Results open

Finn dinghy

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GBR	Ben Ainslie	23
2	United States	Zach Railey	45
3	FRA	Guillaume Florent	58
4th	SWE	Daniel Birgmark	58
5	CAN	Christopher Cook	67
6th	THE	Jonas Høgh-Christensen	70
7th	SLO	Gasper Vincec	72
8th	CRO	Ivan Kljaković Gašpić	76

Date: August 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.

49er

space	country	athlete	Points
1	THE	Jonas Warrer Martin Kirketerp	61
2	ESP	Iker Martínez Xabier Fernández	64
3	GER	Jan-Peter Peckolt Hannes Peckolt	66
4th	ITA	Pietro Sibello Gianfranco Sibello	66
5	OUT	Nathan Outteridge Ben Austin	73
6th	United States	Tim Wadlow Chris Rast	89
7th	BRA	André Fonseca Rodrigo Duarte	99
8th	AUT	Nico Delle Karth Niko Resch	99

Date: August 17, 2008, 3:00 p.m.

tornado

space	country	athlete	Points
1	ESP	Fernando Echávarri Antón Paz	44
2	OUT	Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby	49
3	ARG	Santiago Lange Carlos Espínola	56
4th	CAN	Oskar Johansson Kevin Stittle	61
5	NED	Mitch Booth Pim Nieuwenhuis	64
6th	GBR	Leigh McMillan Will Howden	68
7th	ITA	Francesco Marcolini Edoardo Bianchi	74
8th	GER	Johannes Polgar Florian Spalteholz	74

Date: August 21, 2008, 3:00 p.m.

Web links

• Sailing at the Olympic Games 2008 on sailing.org
• Sailing at the Olympic Summer Games 2008 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )