Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Sailing Star

sport	sailing
discipline	star
gender	Men
place	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Attendees	40 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	July 29th to August 5th, 2012

The sailing competition in the Star class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was from July 29 to August 5, in the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy held. 32 athletes (16 crews) took part.

The competition was carried out in ten regattas ( Fleet Race ). The first nine 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 17 points for false starts (OCS = on course side) and termination of the race (DNF). Even with disqualifications (DSQ) the starter got 17 points. In addition, the jury was able to distribute penalty points (DPI = Discretionary Penalty Imposed) during the race.

Defending champion

Olympic champion

Iain Percy , Andrew Simpson ( United Kingdom )

45 points

Beijing 2008

Crew members

Mateusz Kusznierewicz (POL)

nation	crew
Brazil	Robert Scheidt , Bruno Prada
Denmark	Michael Hestbæk , Claus Olesen
Germany	Robert Stanjek , Frithjof Kleen
France	Xavier Rohart , Pierre-Alexis Ponsot
Greece	Emilios Papathanasiou , Adonis Tsotras
Ireland	Peter O'Leary , David Burrows
Canada	Richard Clarke , Tyler Bjorn
Croatia	Marin Lovrovic , Dan Lovrovic
New Zealand	Hamish Pepper , Jim Turner
Norway	Eivind Melleby , Petter Mørland Pedersen
Poland	Mateusz Kusznierewicz , Dominik Życki
Portugal	Alfonso Domingos , Frederico Melo
Sweden	Fredrik Lööf , Max Salminen
Switzerland	Flavio Marazzi , Enrico De Maria
United States	Mark Mendelblatt , Brian Fatih
United Kingdom	Iain Percy , Andrew Simpson

regatta

Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson (GBR) during the race

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

space	nation	# 1	# 2	# 3	# 4	# 5	# 6	# 7	# 8th	# 9	# 10	Points
0 1	United Kingdom	11	2	3	2	1	2	1	2	4th	1	18th
0 2	Brazil	4th	1	9	6th	2	1	3	5	1	3	26th
0 3	Sweden	10	4th	4th	1	5	3	4th	1	2	6th	30th
0 4th	Norway	7th	5	2	4th	16	11	8th	4th	7th	5	53
0 5	Poland	9	3	12	10	3	4th	2	9	13	2	54
0 6th	United States	5	14th	5	3	8th	9	5	10	3	11	59
0 7th	Germany	6th	9	8th	7th	4th	6th	17 DSQ	11	9	4th	64
0 8th	New Zealand	15th	7th	1	13	6th	5	9	8th	8th	9	66
0 9	Ireland	2	6th	14th	5	11	12	17 DSQ	7th	11	7th	75
10	France	1	13	10	11	12	14th	11	6th	6th	8th	78
11	Denmark	12	11	13	14th	13	7th	6th	3	14th	10	89
12	Canada	16	10	6th	8th	10	17 OCS	13	12	5	13	93
13	Switzerland	13	8th	11	9	15th	8th	11	13	15th	16	102
14th	Greece	3	16	7th	12	7th	15th	17 DSQ	16	17 OCS	12	106
15th	Portugal	14th	15th	15th	16	9	10	7th	14th	10	14th	108
16	Croatia	8th	12	16	15th	14th	13	12	15th	12	15th	116

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

Medal race

The Brazilian Robert Scheidt, one of the most successful sailors at the Olympics

August 5, 2012, 2:00 p.m. CEST

space	nation	Points
0 1	Sweden	2
0 2	New Zealand	4th
0 3	Germany	6th
0 4th	France	8th
0 5	Norway	10
0 6th	United States	12
0 7th	Brazil	14th
0 8th	United Kingdom	16
0 9	Poland	18th
10	Ireland	20th

Final score

Robert Scheidt (BRA) is the sailor with five Olympic medals (2 × gold, 2 × silver, 1 × bronze) together with his compatriot Torben Grael (2/1/2) and the British Ben Ainslie (4/1/0) with the most Olympic medals.
In the Olympic sailing program since 1932, this was the last Olympic regatta in the star boat class.

space	nation	Points	annotation
0 1	Sweden	32
0 2	United Kingdom	34
0 3	Brazil	40
0 4th	Norway	63
0 5	New Zealand	70	Decision through the better placement in the medal race
0 6th	Germany	70
0 7th	United States	71
0 8th	Poland	72
0 9	France	86
10	Ireland	95

Web links

• SportsReference Star

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement at starclass.de from May 8, 2011 ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )