Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Sailing - Finn Dinghy

sport	sailing
discipline	Finn dinghy
gender	Men
place	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Attendees	24 athletes from 24 countries
Competition phase	July 29th to August 5th, 2012

The sailing competition in the Finn Dinghy (in English for the first time as one person heavyweight dinghy ) at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held from July 29th to August 5th at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy . 24 athletes took part.

The competition was carried out in eleven regattas ( Fleet Race ). The first ten races were completed by all starters. Points were awarded for the number of places. In the final bill, the worst placement was deleted. The ten sailors with the lowest number of points qualified for the medal race. The previous points have been retained, but the placement points for the medal race have been doubled.

The sailor in question received 25 points for false starts (OCS = on course side) and termination of the race (DNF). Even with disqualifications (DSQ) the starter got 25 points. In addition, the jury was able to distribute penalty points (DPI = Discretionary Penalty Imposed) during the race.

Defending champion

Olympic champion

Ben Ainslie ( United Kingdom )

23 points

Beijing 2008

regatta

Races 1 and 2: July 29, 2012
Races 3 and 4: July 30, 2012
Races 5 and 6: July 31, 2012
Races 7 and 8: August 2, 2012
Races 9 and 10: August 3, 2012
Ukrainian Borysov received a Points are credited in the second race.

space	Surname	nation	1st race	2nd race	3rd race	4th race	5th race	6th race	7th race	8th race	9th race	10th race	Points
0 1	Jonas Høgh-Christensen	Denmark	1	1	2	7th	1	2	8th	4th	5	3	26th
0 2	Ben Ainslie	United Kingdom	2	2	6th	12	4th	3	1	3	6th	1	28
0 3	Pieter-Jan Postma	Netherlands	5	10	3	4th	20th	13	2	2	1	2	42
0 4th	Jonathan Lobert	France	9	4th	4th	2	6th	7th	5	10	3	7th	47
0 4th	Ivan Kljaković Gašpić	Croatia	3	3	7th	9	5	6th	3	7th	4th	10	47
0 6th	Vasilij Žbogar	Slovenia	8th	6th	5	3	8th	5	9	6th	2	6th	49
0 7th	Tapio Nirkko	Finland	11	13	8th	5	3	12	4th	5	15th	17th	76
0 8th	Daniel Birgmark	Sweden	17th	5	14th	1	9	9	10	12	10	8th	78
0 9	Dan Slater	New Zealand	7th	11	1	6th	17th	11	6th	15th	8th	14th	79
10	Rafael Trujillo	Spain	12	12	12	23	7th	4th	15th	1	13	4th	80
11	Deniss Karpak	Estonia	14th	9	11	11	11	1	7th	13	11	11	85
12	Zach Railey	United States	10	15th	13	17th	2	8th	12	8th	12	19th	97
13	Brendan Casey	Australia	25 DNF	7th	16 DPI	15th	10	17th	19th	9	9	5	106
14th	Ioannis Mitakis	Greece	4th	21st	10	8th	25 OCS	10	20th	19th	7th	9	108
15th	Greg Douglas	Canada	16	23	16	13	12	18th	13	17th	20th	12	137
16	Piotr Kula	Poland	25 DSQ	16	17th	16	13	20th	25 OCS	11	14th	16	148
17th	Eduard Skornjakov	Russia	13	8th	22nd	14th	19th	22nd	16	16	22nd	22nd	153
18th	Alican Kaynar	Turkey	18th	14th	18th	18th	25 DNF	14th	11	22nd	16	20th	154
19th	Oleksiy Borysov	Ukraine	21st	18.6	19th	19th	15th	19th	23	14th	17th	18th	160.6
20th	Jorge Zarif	Brazil	15th	20th	15th	20th	16	24	14th	21st	19th	21st	161
21st	Michal Maier	Czech Republic	19th	18th	21st	10	18th	23	18th	20th	23	15th	162
22nd	Filippo Baldassari	Italy	20th	22nd	24	21st	14th	21st	17th	18th	18th	13	164
23	Florian Raudaschl	Austria	6th	19th	23	24	25 OCS	15th	21st	24	24	23	179
24	Gong Lei	People's Republic of China	25 OCS	17th	20th	22nd	25 OCS	16	23	23	21st	24	190

Note: The deletion results are in italics. The sailors qualified for the medal race are highlighted in light green.

Medal race

August 5, 2012, 3:00 p.m. CEST

space	Surname	nation	Points
0 1	Jonathan Lobert	France	2
0 2	Dan Slater	New Zealand	4th
0 3	Rafael Trujillo	Spain	6th
0 4th	Ivan Kljaković Gašpić	Croatia	8th
0 5	Pieter-Jan Postma	Netherlands	10
0 6th	Daniel Birgmark	Sweden	12
0 7th	Vasilij Žbogar	Slovenia	14th
0 8th	Tapio Nirkko	Finland	16
0 9	Ben Ainslie	United Kingdom	18th
10	Jonas Høgh-Christensen	Denmark	20th

Final score

Olympic Champion Ben Ainslie (GBR)

With his victory, Ben Ainslie set the record for the Dane Paul Elvstrøm , who was Olympic champion four times in a row (1948–1960).
Ainslie also won four times in a row (2000-2012), in 1996 he also won silver. With this fifth medal in total, he drew level with the two Brazilians Robert Scheidt and Torben Grael .

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
0 1	Ben Ainslie	United Kingdom	46	Decision through the better placement in the medal race
0 2	Jonas Høgh-Christensen	Denmark	46
0 3	Jonathan Lobert	France	49
0 4th	Pieter-Jan Postma	Netherlands	52
0 5	Ivan Kljaković Gašpić	Croatia	55
0 6th	Vasilij Žbogar	Slovenia	63
0 7th	Dan Slater	Finland	83
0 8th	Rafael Trujillo	Spain	86
0 9	Daniel Birgmark	Sweden	90
10	Tapio Nirkko	Finland	92

Web links

• SportsReference Finn Dinghy