Summer Paralympics 2016 / sailing

Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Marina da Glória
Teams	41
Nations	23
Athletes	80
date	12-17 September 2016
decisions	3
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At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , medals were awarded in a total of three sailing competitions. The decisions were made on September 17th, 2016 in the Marina da Glória .

Classes

At the Paralympic sailing competitions, a distinction was only made between classes in order to ensure the team's balance. The athletes were classified according to the degree of disability with up to seven points, with seven points being awarded to the less disabled athletes. The classification was different depending on the discipline.

competition	boat	Classification
One-man keelboat	2.4mR	All sailors must have a minimum handicap or a greater handicap, as stipulated in the statutes of the FCS 2008-12.
Two-man keelboat	SKUD 18	The couple should consist of at least one woman, and one of the sailors should have a maximum of 1–2 points (severe disability).
Three-man keelboat	sonar	Three sailors were not allowed to exceed a total of 14 points.

Qualified teams

There were three main competitions for qualification. The IFDS Sailing World Championships, where more than half of the places could be won. The Combined World Championships were all about the remaining places, with six places reserved for the organizer. Each committee was allowed to send a maximum of 1 boat per event.

competition	2.4mR	Skud18	sonar
2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships 15.-24. August 2014 Halifax Canada	Australia Canada Finland France Germany United Kingdom Norway United States	Australia Canada United Kingdom Italy United States	Australia Canada Greece France Germany United Kingdom Norway
2015 IFDS Combined Sailing World Championships November 24th - December 3rd, 2015 Melbourne Australia	Austria Italy Czech Republic Sweden Spain Argentina New Zealand	Netherlands Poland Spain New Zealand Singapore	United States Israel Ireland Italy Spain Japan
Host	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil
41 boats, 80 athletes	16 boats, 16 athletes	11 boats, 22 athletes	14 boats, 42 athletes

Results

A total of 80 athletes take part in the Paralympic sailing competitions. Women and men start mixed in the three trips.

One-man keelboat ( 2.4mR )

space	country	athlete	Points (total / weight) 1
1	France	Damien Seguin	36/30
2	Australia	Matthew Bugg	53/36
3	Great Britain	Helena Lucas	56/39
4th	United States	Dee Smith	51/43
5	Norway	Bjornar Erikstad	63/52
6th	Germany	Heiko Kroeger	70/55
7th	Italy	Antonio Squizzato	83/72
8th	Finland	Niko Salomaa	93/79

Date: September 17, 2016, 2:00 p.m.

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The placement corresponds to the number of points that the sailors get for a race. The two worst placements are deleted, the rest are added, so that the final value arises.

Two-man keelboat (Skud18)

space	country	Athletes	Points (total / weight) 1
1	Australia	Daniel Fitzgibbon Liesl Tesch	14/12
2	Canada	John McRoberts Jackie Gay	46/34
3	Great Britain	Alexandra Rickham Niki Birrell	48/36
4th	Poland	Monika Gibes Piotr Cichocki	49/37
5	United States	Ryan Porteous Maureen McKinnon	60/51
6th	Italy	Marco Carlo Gualandris Marta Zanetti	68/65
7th	Netherlands	Rolf Schrama Sandra Nap	76/68
8th	Brazil	Bruno Landgrave Marinalva de Almeida	84/74

Date: September 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.

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total = total,
weighted without deletion results. = evaluated, with results deleted

The placement corresponds to the number of points that the sailors get for a race. The worst placement is deleted, the rest are added up to give the final value.

Three-man keelboat ( sonar )

space	country	Athletes	Points (total / weight) 1
1	Australia	Colin Harrison Jonathan Harris Russell Boaden	36/26
2	United States	Rick Doerr Hugh friend Brad Kendell	54/44
3	Canada	Paul Tingley Scott Lutes Logan Campbell	62/51
4th	New Zealand	Richard Dodson Andrew May Chris Sharp	62/51
5	Norway	Aleksander Wang-Hansen Marie Solberg Per Eugen Kristiansen	65/54
6th	Germany	Let Klötzing Jens Kroker Siegmund Mainka	65/55
7th	Greece	Vasileios Christoforou Theodoros Alexas Anargyros Notaroglou	68/58
8th	Israel	Dror Cohen Shimon Ben Yakov Arnon Efrati	72/59

Date: September 17, 2016, 12:00 p.m.

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total = total,
weighted without deletion results. = evaluated, with results deleted

The placement corresponds to the number of points that the sailors get for a race. The worst placement is deleted and the rest are added to give the final value.

Medal table sailing

Medal table sailing
space	country				total
01	Australia	2	1	-	3
02	France	1	-	-	1
03	Canada	-	1	1	2
04th	United States	-	1	-	1
05	Great Britain	-	-	2	2

Web links

• Historical results on Paralympic.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nations qualify for Rio 2016 at Para World Sailing Championships. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 13, 2016 ; accessed on September 4, 2016 . 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.