Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Sailing

Sailing at the 2012 Olympics
information
venue	Weymouth and Portland
Competition venue	National Sailing Academy
Nations	63
Athletes	379 (237 , 142 )
date	July 29th to August 11th 2012
decisions	10
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At the 2012 Summer Olympics in the British capital, London , ten sailing competitions were held from July 29 to August 11 , four for women and six for men.

The IOC had modified the competition program compared to Beijing 2008 : instead of eleven, only ten competitions were held. The open boat class Tornado and the women's class Yngling had been canceled . New to the program for women was the Elliott 6m class , which was held as a match race . The 49er and Finn Dinghy, which were still open classes in Beijing in 2008 , now officially counted as men's competitions, after almost exclusively men competed in these classes in the past.

The venue was the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy between Weymouth and the island of Portland , around 190 kilometers from the city center of London on the south coast of England.

Competitions and schedule

Olympic boat classes 2012 (from left): RS: X, Laser Radial, Laser, Finn, 470, 49er, Elliott 6m, Starboot

Weymouth sailing area

Sailing Academy clubhouse

Competitions and schedule sailing
Competitions	Boats	Athletes	July August
Women			29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.
Windsurfing RS: X	28	28
Laser Radial	39	39
470s	20th	40
Elliott 6m  match race	12	36
Men			29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.
Windsurfing RS: X	38	38
laser	48	48
470s	27	54
Finn dinghy	25th	25th
49er	20th	40
Star boat	16	32

Qualification regatta

Medal regatta

Balance sheet

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
01	Australia	3	1	-	4th
02	Spain	2	-	-	2
03	Great Britain	1	4th	-	5
04th	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
05	New Zealand	1	1	-	2
06th	Sweden	1	-	1	2
07th	People's Republic of China	1	-	-	1
08th	Denmark	-	1	1	2
08th	Finland	-	1	1	2
10	Cyprus	-	1	-	1
11	Poland	-	-	2	2
12	Argentina	-	-	1	1
12	Belgium	-	-	1	1
12	Brazil	-	-	1	1
12	France	-	-	1	1
Total		10	10	10	30th

Medalist

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Windsurfing	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	Nick Dempsey	Przemysław Miarczyński
laser	Tom Slingsby	Pavlos Kontides	Rasmus Myrgren
470s	Australia Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page	Great Britain Luke Patience Stuart Bithell	Argentina Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente
Finn dinghy	Ben Ainslie	Jonas Høgh-Christensen	Jonathan Lobert
49er	Australia Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen	New Zealand Peter Burling Blair Tuke	Denmark Allan Nørregaard Peter Lang
star	Sweden Max Salminen Fredrik Lööf	Great Britain Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	Brazil Bruno Prada Robert Scheidt

Women

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Windsurfing	Marina Alabau	Tuuli Petäja	Zofia Noceti-Klepacka
Laser Radial	Xu Lijia	Marit Bouwmeester	Evi Van Acker
470s	New Zealand Jo Aleh Olivia Powrie	Great Britain Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	Netherlands Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout
Elliott 6m	Spain Támara Echegoyen Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro	Australia Olivia Price Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty	Finland Silja Lehtinen Silja Kanerva Mikaela Wulff

Results men

Windsurfing RS: X

space	country	athlete	Points
01	NED	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	15th
02	GBR	Nick Dempsey	41
03	POLE	Przemysław Miarczyński	60
04th	GER	Toni Wilhelm	64
05	FRA	Julien Bontemps	70
06th	GRE	Byron Kokkalanis	77
07th	NZL	JP Tobin	96
08th	CAN	Zachary Plavsic	100
09	BRA	Ricardo Santos	113
010	SUI	Richard Stauffacher	127

Medal Race: August 7, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

laser

space	country	athlete	Points
01	OUT	Tom Slingsby	43
02	CYP	Pavlos Kontides	58
03	SWE	Rasmus Myrgren	72
04th	CRO	Tonči Stipanović	77
05	NZL	Andrew Murdoch	87
06th	GER	Simon Grotelüschen	92
07th	GBR	Paul Goodison	93
08th	URU	Alejandro Foglia	106
09	GUA	Juan Ignacio Maegli	108
10	FRA	Jean Baptiste Bernaz	119

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Sailing - Lasers

Medal Race: August 6, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

470s

space	country	athlete	Points
01	OUT	Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page	22nd
02	GBR	Luke Patience Stuart Bithell	30th
03	ARG	Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente	63
04th	ITA	Gabrio Zandonà Pietro Zucchetti	72
05	NZL	Paul Snow-Hansen Jason Saunders	86
06th	CRO	Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	87
07th	FRA	Pierre Leboucher Vincent Garos	90
08th	POR	Álvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes	93
09	AUT	Florian Reichstädter Matthias Schmid	107
10	SWE	Anton Dahlberg Sebastian Östling	123

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Sailing - 470s (men)

Medal Race: August 10, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

Finn dinghy

space	country	athlete	Points
01	GBR	Ben Ainslie	46
02	THE	Jonas Høgh-Christensen	46
03	FRA	Jonathan Lobert	49
04th	NED	Pieter-Jan Postma	52
05	CRO	Ivan Kljaković	55
06th	SLO	Vasilij Žbogar	63
07th	NZL	Dan Slater	83
08th	ESP	Rafael Trujillo Villar	86
09	SWE	Daniel Birgmark	90
10	FIN	Tapio Nirkko	92

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Sailing - Finn Dinghy

Medal Race: August 5th, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

49er

space	country	athlete	Points
01	OUT	Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen	56
02	NZL	Peter Burling Blair Tuke	76
03	THE	Allan Nørregaard Peter Lang	114
04th	AUT	Nico Delle Karth Niko Resch	118
05	GBR	Stevie Morrison Ben Rhodes	124
06th	FRA	Emmanuel Dyen Stéphane Christidis	127
07th	FIN	Lauri Lehtinen Kalle Bask	129
08th	POR	Bernardo Freitas Francisco Andrade	134
09	ITA	Giuseppe Angilella Gianfranco Sibello	148
10	SWE	Jonas von Geijer Niclas During	153

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Sailing - 49ers

Medal Race: August 8, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

Star boat

space	country	athlete	Points
01	SWE	Max Salminen Fredrik Lööf	32
02	GBR	Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	34
03	BRA	Bruno Prada Robert Scheidt	40
04th	NOR	Eivind Melleby Petter Morland Pedersen	63
05	NZL	Hamish Pepper Jim Turner	70
06th	GER	Frithjof Kleen Robert Stanjek	70
07th	United States	Mark Mendelblatt Brian Fatih	71
08th	POLE	Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Zycki	72
09	FRA	Xavier Rohart Pierre-Alexis Ponsot	86
10	IRL	David Burrows Peter O'Leary	95

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Sailing Star

Medal Race: August 5th, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

Results women

Windsurfing RS: X

space	country	sportswoman	Points
01	ESP	Marina Alabau	26th
02	FIN	Tuuli Petäja	46
03	POLE	Zofia Noceti-Klepacka	47
04th	UKR	Olha Masliwez	48
05	GER	Moana Dent	51
06th	ISR	Lee Korzits	56
07th	GBR	Bryony Shaw	59
08th	FRA	Charline Picon	89
09	ITA	Alessandra Sensini	95
10	CAN	Nikola Girke	109

Medal Race: August 7, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

Laser Radial

space	country	sportswoman	Points
01	CHN	Xu Lijia	35
02	NED	Marit Bouwmeester	37
03	BEL	Evi Van Acker	40
04th	IRL	Annalize Murphy	44
05	GBR	Alison Young	60
06th	LTU	Gintarė Scheidt	82
07th	FIN	Sari multala	94
08th	United States	Paige Railey	104
09	CZE	Veronika Fenclová	105
10	MEX	Tania Elias Calles	116

Medal Race: August 6, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

470s

space	country	sportswoman	Points
01	NZL	Jo Aleh Olivia Powrie	35
02	GBR	Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	51
03	NED	Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout	64
04th	FRA	Camille Lecointre Mathilde Géron	65
05	ITA	Giulia Conti Giovanna Micol	73
06th	BRA	Fernanda Oliveira Ana Barbachan	75
07th	OUT	Elise Rechichi Belinda Stowell	83
08th	GER	Kathrin Kadelbach Friederike Belcher	84
09	United States	Amanda Clark Sarah Lihan	98
10	ESP	Berta Betanzo's Tara Pacheco	101

Medal Race: August 10, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

Match race Elliott 6m

space	country	Sportswomen
1	ESP	Támara Echegoyen , Ángela Pumariega , Sofía Toro
2	OUT	Olivia Price , Nina Curtis , Lucinda Whitty
3	FIN	Silja Lehtinen , Silja Kanerva , Mikaela Wulff
4th	RUS	Jelena Oblowa , Jelena Sjusewa , Jekaterina Skudina
5	United States	Anna Tunnicliffe , Deborah Capozzi , Molly O'Bryan
6th	FRA	Claire Leroy , Élodie Bertrand , Marie Riou
7th	GBR	Lucy MacGregor , Annie Lush , Kate MacGregor
8th	NED	Renee Groenveld , Annemieke Bes , Marcelien Bos

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Sailing - keelboat (3 people)

Final: August 11, 2012, 1:05 p.m.

The regattas for places 5 to 8 had to be canceled due to insufficient wind. The results of the Round Robin counted.

qualification

Qualification criteria

380 athletes were allowed to take part in the competitions, 136 women and 228 men. Each country can nominate one boat per class, i.e. a maximum of 16 athletes. Great Britain is guaranteed a quota place in each class as the host. The main qualifying competition was the 2011 World Championships for all classes in Perth , where 75 percent of all quota places in a class were awarded. Further qualification regattas were the ISAF World Championships for the individual classes in 2012, in which the remaining 25 percent of the quota places for each class were allocated. If there was no world championship in a class in 2012, the ISAF organized a qualifying regatta in which the quota places could be achieved. If a boat belonging to a NOK that had already achieved a quota place in this class landed in a qualifying regatta in 2012 on a place that guaranteed a quota place, the next best boat without a quota place got it.

Qualification competitions with number of quota places

List of qualifying competitions:

• ISAF World Championships (all classes) in Perth , December 3-18, 2011 
• Elliott Qualifying Regatta in Miami February 1-5, 2012 
• RS: X World Championship in Cadiz , March 20-28, 2012 
• Star World Championship in Hyères , May 2 to 12, 2012 
• Laser World Championship (men) in Boltenhagen , 4th to 10th May 2012 
• 49er World Championship in Zadar , May 4th to 13th, 2012 
• 470 World Championship in Barcelona , May 10-19, 2012 
• Finn Gold Cup in Falmouth , May 11-18, 2012 
• Laser World Championship (women) in Boltenhagen , May 15-20 , 2012 

Overview of the number of boat quota places to be allocated in the qualifying competitions
	Women				Men						Boats total	Total athletes
competition	Windsurfing RS: X	Laser Radial	470s	Elliott 6m	Windsurfing RS: X	laser	470s	Finn dinghy	49er	star
World Championships (all classes)	20th	29	14th	8th	28	35	19th	18th	14th	11	196	270
Regattas 2012 (individual classes)	7th	9	5	3	9	12	7th	6th	5	4th	67	94
host	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	10	16
total	28	39	20th	12	38	48	27	25th	20th	16	273	380

Quota places won

Won quota places according to NOKs
	Women				Men						Boats total	Total athletes
competition	Windsurfing RS: X	Laser Radial	470s	Elliott 6m	Windsurfing RS: X	laser	470s	Finn dinghy	49er	star
Egypt					X						1	1
Americ. Virgin Islands		X				X					2	2
Argentina	X	X	X		X	X	X				6th	8th
Australia	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X		8th	13
Belgium	X	X				X					3	3
Bermuda									X		1	2
Brazil	X	X	X		X	X		X		X	7th	9
Bulgaria	X				X						2	2
Chile						X	X				2	3
China	X	X	X		X	X	X	X			7th	9
Cook Islands		X									1	1
Denmark		X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	8th	13
Germany	X	X	X		X	X	X		X	X	8th	12
Estonia	X	X			X	X		X			5	5
Finland	X	X		X		X	X	X	X		7th	11
France	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	16
Greece	X	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	8th	11
Great Britain	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	16
Guatemala		X				X					2	2
Hong Kong	X				X						2	2
Ireland		X				X	X		X	X	5	8th
Israel	X	X	X		X		X				5	7th
Italy	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X		8th	11
Japan	X	X	X		X		X		X		6th	9
Canada	X	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	8th	11
Kyrgyzstan						X					1	1
Colombia					X	X					2	2
Croatia		X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	8th	12
Lithuania		X			X	X					3	3
Malaysia						X					1	1
Mexico		X			X	X					3	3
Monaco						X					1	1
Montenegro						X					1	1
New Zealand		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	9	15th
Netherlands		X	X	X	X	X	X	X			7th	11
Norway	X	X			X	X				X	5	6th
Austria		X				X	X	X	X		5	8th
Peru		X									1	1
Poland	X	X	X		X	X		X	X	X	8th	11
Portugal	X	X		X	X	X	X		X	X	8th	13
Republic of China					X						1	1
Russia	X	X		X	X	X	X	X			7th	10
Saint Lucia		X									1	1
Sweden		X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	8th	14th
Switzerland		X			X		X			X	4th	6th
Singapore		X				X					2	2
Slovenia		X				X		X			3	4th
Spain	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		9	14th
South Africa							X				1	2
South Korea					X	X	X				3	4th
Thailand	X				X	X					3	3
Trinidad & Tobago						X					1	1
Czech Republic		X			X	X		X			4th	4th
Tunisia						X					1	1
Turkey		X				X	X	X			4th	5
Ukraine	X				X	X		X			4th	4th
Independent Olympian		X									1	1
Hungary	X				X	X					3	3
Uruguay		X				X					2	2
United States	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	16
Venezuela					X	X					2	2
Belarus		X			X						2	2
Cyprus					X	X					2	2
Total quota places	26th	41	20th	12	38	49	27	24	20th	16	273	380

In the women's Laser Radial, Philipine van Aanholt from the Netherlands Antilles qualified . The NOK of the overseas area is no longer recognized after its dissolution, therefore a start as an independent Olympic participant is being considered. In total, athletes from 56 different NOKs won quota places.

For women, New Zealand and the Netherlands returned their quota places in windsurfing to the world federation, for men, Australia did not participate in windsurfing, Israel and Switzerland in the laser and Germany in the Finn dinghy. The NOKs from Egypt, the Cook Islands, Saint Lucia, Kyrgyzstan, Monaco and Montenegro received the quota places that became free.

In total, athletes from 63 different NOKs qualified for the Olympic regattas.

Web links

Commons : 2012 Summer Olympics / Sailing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sailing at the Olympic Summer Games 2012 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sailing Schedule. Retrieved July 27, 2012 (English). 
2. ↑ "Qualification London 2012" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 148 kB) Website of the NOK of Australia. Retrieved August 3, 2010. (English). 
3. ^ Nations Qualified for the 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition. Retrieved May 23, 2012 .