2016 Summer Olympics / Sailing

Sailing at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Competition venue	Marina da Glória
Nations	68
Athletes	381
date	August 8th to 18th, 2016
decisions	10
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At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , ten sailing competitions were held from August 8 to 18, 2016 . Four competitions were held for women and five for men, as well as a mixed competition. The venue was the Marina da Glória .

The IOC had modified the competition program compared to London 2012 . For example, the keelboat classes were canceled for women and men : For women, the Elliott 6m class was replaced by the 49erFX class , while the Star class for men was canceled without replacement. New to the program was the Nacra 17 class , which was held in mixed competition. The crew of two consisted of a woman and a man.

Competitions and schedule

Windsurf races in the Marina da Glória

Competitions and schedule sailing
Competitions	Boats	Athletes	August
Women			8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th
Windsurfing RS: X	26th	26th
Laser Radial	37	37
470s	19th	38
49erFX	20th	40
Men			8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th
Windsurfing RS: X	36	36
laser	46	46
470s	26th	52
Finn dinghy	23	23
49er	20th	40
Mixed			8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th
Nacra 17	16	32

Qualification regatta

Medal regatta

Balance sheet

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
01	Great Britain	2	1	-	3
02	Netherlands	2	-	-	2
03	Australia	1	3	-	4th
04th	New Zealand	1	2	1	4th
05	Croatia	1	1	-	2
06th	France	1	-	2	3
07th	Argentina	1	-	-	1
	Brazil	1	-	-	1
09	China	-	1	-	1
	Ireland	-	1	-	1
	Slovenia	-	1	-	1
12	Denmark	-	-	2	2
13	Germany	-	-	1	1
	Greece	-	-	1	1
	Austria	-	-	1	1
	Russia	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1
total		10	10	10	30th

Medalist

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Windsurfing	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	Nick Dempsey	Pierre Le Coq
laser	Tom Burton	Tonči Stipanović	Sam Meech
470s	Croatia Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	Australia Mathew Belcher William Ryan	Greece Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis
Finn dinghy	Giles Scott	Vasilij Žbogar	Caleb Paine
49er	New Zealand Peter Burling Blair Tuke	Australia Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen	Germany Erik Heil Thomas Plößel

Women

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Windsurfing	Charline Picon	Chen Peina	Stefanija Jelfutina
Laser Radial	Marit Bouwmeester	Annalize Murphy	Anne-Marie Rindom
470s	Great Britain Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	New Zealand Jo Aleh Olivia Powrie	France Camille Lecointre Hélène Defrance
49erFX	Brazil Martine Grael Kahena Kunze	New Zealand Alex Maloney Molly Meech	Denmark Jena Hansen Katja Salskov-Iversen

Mixed

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Nacra 17	Argentina Santiago Lange Cecilia Carranza Saroli	Australia Jason Waterhouse Lisa Darmanin	Austria Thomas Zajac Tanja Frank

Results

Men

Windsurfing RS: X

space	country	athlete	Points
01	NED	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	25th
02	GBR	Nick Dempsey	52
03	FRA	Pierre Le Coq	86
04th	POLE	Piotr Myszka	88
05	GRE	Byron Kokkalanis	96
06th	GER	Toni Wilhelm	100
07th	BRA	Ricardo Santos	118
08th	HKG	Chun Leung Michael Cheng	126
09	ESP	Iván Pastor	127
10	ITA	Mattia Camboni	137

Medal Race: August 14, 2016

Toni Wilhelm started for Germany and Mateo Sanz Lanz for Switzerland . For Austria there was no participant at the start.
Toni Wilhelm achieved sixth place in the final ranking with 100 points.
Mateo Sanz Lanz achieved 14th place in the final ranking with 136 points.

laser

space	country	athlete	Points
01	OUT	Tom Burton	73
02	CRO	Tonči Stipanović	75
03	NZL	Sam Meech	85
04th	BRA	Robert Scheidt	89
05	FRA	Jean-Baptiste Bernaz	90
06th	GBR	Nick Thompson	103
07th	CYP	Pavlos Kontides	104
08th	GUA	Juan Ignacio Maegli	117
09	NED	Rutger van Schaardenburg	118
10	ARG	Julio Alsogaray	129

Medal Race: August 15, 2016

470s

space	country	athlete	Points
01	CRO	Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	43
02	OUT	Mathew Belcher William Ryan	58 - MR: 9.
03	GRE	Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis	58 - MR: 10.
04th	United States	Stuart McNay David Hughes	71
05	GBR	Luke Patience Chris Pit	75
06th	SWE	Anton Dahlberg Fredrik Bergström	79
07th	FRA	Sofian Bouvet Jérémie Mion	87
08th	AUT	Matthias Schmid Florian Reichstädter	87
09	SUI	Yannick Brauchli Romuald Hausser	94
10	NZL	Paul Snow-Hansen Daniel Willcox	104

Medal Race: August 17th, 2016

Due to the better placement in the Medal Race, Australia won the silver medal ahead of the tied pairing from Greece.

Finn dinghy

space	country	athlete	Points
01	GBR	Giles Scott	36
02	SLO	Vasilij Žbogar	68
03	United States	Caleb Paine	76
04th	BRA	Jorge Zarif	87
05	CRO	Ivan Kljaković Gašpić	89
06th	SWE	Max salt mines	90
07th	NZL	Josh Junior	92
08th	OUT	Jake Lilley	97
09	ARG	Facundo Olezza	101
10	NED	Pieter-Jan Postma	105

Medal Race: August 16, 2016

49er

space	country	athlete	Points
01	NZL	Peter Burling Blair Tuke	35
02	OUT	Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen	78
03	GER	Erik Heil Thomas Plößel	83
04th	THE	Jonas Warrer Christian Peter Lübeck	98
05	FRA	Julien d'Ortoli Noé Delpech	100
06th	GBR	Dylan Fletcher Alain Sign	100
07th	ARG	Yago Lange Klaus Lange	111
08th	POLE	Łukasz Przybytek Pawel Kolodzinski	118.6
09	ESP	Diego Botín Iago López	120
10	IRL	Ryan Seaton Matt McGovern	121

Medal Race: August 18, 2016

The Austrian duo Nico Delle Karth / Nikolaus Resch came in 12th with 116 points. The Swiss Sébastien Schneiter / Lucien Cujean achieved 13th with 120 points.

Women

Windsurfing RS: X

space	country	sportswoman	Points
01	FRA	Charline Picon	64
02	CHN	Chen Peina	66
03	RUS	Stefanija Jelfutina	69
04th	NED	Lilian de Geus	70
05	ESP	Marina Alabau	71
06th	ITA	Flavia Tartaglini	71
07th	ISR	Maayan Davidovich	78
08th	BRA	Patrícia Freitas	80
09	GBR	Bryony Shaw	83
10	FIN	Tuuli Petäja	99

Medal Race: August 14, 2016

There were no participants for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Laser Radial

space	country	sportswoman	Points
01	NED	Marit Bouwmeester	61
02	IRL	Annalize Murphy	67
03	THE	Anne-Marie Rindom	71
04th	BEL	Evi Van Acker	78
05	FIN	Tuula Tenkanen	86.6
06th	SWE	Josefin Olsson	90
07th	LTU	Gintarė Scheidt	90
08th	GBR	Alison Young	93
09	OUT	Ashley Stoddart	107
10	United States	Paige Railey	131

Medal Race: August 15, 2016

470s

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
01	GBR	Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	44
02	NZL	Jo Aleh Olivia Powrie	54
03	FRA	Camille Lecointre, Hélène Defrance	62
04th	NED	Afrodite Kyranakou Anneloes van Veen	63
05	JPN	Ai Kondō Miho Yoshioka	66
06th	SLO	Tina Mrak Veronika Macarol	67
07th	United States	Annie Haeger Briana Provancha	69
08th	BRA	Fernanda Oliveira Ana Luiza Barbachan	76
09	AUT	Lara Vadlau Jolanta Ogar	92
10	POLE	Agnieszka Skrzypulec Irmina Gliszczyńska	106

Medal Race: August 17th, 2016

49erFX

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
01	BRA	Martine Grael Kahena Kunze	48
02	NZL	Alex Maloney Molly Meech	51
03	THE	Jena Hansen Katja Salskov-Iversen	54
04th	ESP	Támara Echegoyen Berta Betanzos	60
05	ITA	Giulia Conti Francesca Clapcich	82
06th	FRA	Sarah Steyaert Aude Compan	85
07th	NED	Annemiek Bekkering Annette Duetz	97
08th	GBR	Charlotte Dobson Sophie Ainsworth	101
09	GER	Victoria Jurczok Anika Lorenz	110
10	United States	Paris Henken Helena Scutt	112

Medal Race: August 18, 2016

Mixed

Nacra 17

space	country	athlete	Points
01	ARG	Santiago Lange Cecilia Carranza Saroli	77
02	OUT	Jason Waterhouse Lisa Darmanin	78 - MR: 2.
03	AUT	Thomas Zajac Tanja Frank	78 - MR: 3.
04th	NZL	Jason Saunders Gemma Jones	81
05	ITA	Vittorio Bissaro Silvia Sicouri	84
06th	FRA	Billy Besson Marie Riou	93
07th	SUI	Matias Bühler Natalie Brugger	100
08th	United States	Bora Gulari Louisa Chafee	106
09	GBR	Ben Saxton Nicola Groves	109
10	BRA	Samuel Albrecht Isabel Swan	117

Medal Race: August 16, 2016

Due to the better placement in the Medal Race, Australia won the silver medal before the pairing from Austria with equal points.

Web links

Commons : 2016 Summer Olympics / Sailing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sailing on rio2016.com (English)
• Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )