Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Sailing
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad

Venues

Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy^[1]

Dates

First race: 29 July 2012
Last race: 11 August 2012

Sailors

380 (227 male, 143 female) from 63 countries

Boats and Boards

261
and 12 match race teams

Top ranked countries

Australia:	3 01 !	1 02 !	0 03 !
Spain:	2 01 !	0 02 !	0 03 !
Great Britain:	1 01 !	4 02 !	0 03 !

Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad (1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece). With the exception of 1904 and possible 1916 sailing was always a part of the Olympic program. The Sailing program of 2012 consisted of a total of eight sailing classes (ten disciplines). Eleven Fleet races were scheduled from 29 July 2012 to 11 August 2012 of the coast at Weymouth Bay for each event except for the 49er and the Elliott 6m. For the 49er a total of 16 races were scheduled. Of the 11 (16) races, 10 (15) were scheduled as opening races and the last one as medal race. For the Elliott 6m a series of match races was scheduled. The sailing was done on different types of courses.

Venue

Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
General information
Status	Complete
Address	Osprey Quay
Town or city	Portland,
Country	Dorset DT5 1SA
Coordinates	50°34′19″N 2°27′21″W / 50.57194°N 2.45583°W / 50.57194; -2.45583Coordinates: 50°34′19″N 2°27′21″W / 50.57194°N 2.45583°W / 50.57194; -2.45583
Elevation	Sealevel
Opened	2008
Inaugurated	Improvements to the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy were ready for competition by 2008. The new slipway, moorings and other facilities have already been used for several international events.
Client	LOCOG
Owner	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Other information
Seating type	Standing
Seating capacity	17,400

According to the IOC statutes the contests in all sport disciplines must be held either in, or as close as possible to the city which the IOC has chosen. Among others, an exception is made for the Olympic sailing events, which customarily must be staged on the open sea. On account of this principle, Weymouth and Portland was selected for the honor to carry out the Olympic yachting regattas. For that purpose the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy was reconstructed.

Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA)

The land based part of the WPNSA includes:

Administrative and game management center
Media center
The "Hangar" for measurement, social events and logistic center.
(Inter)National sailing center
Craning, mooring and slipway facilities

Course areas

A total of five race areas were set on Weymouth Bay of the coast of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The exclusion area was limited by a fictive line between Portland and the mainland. All racing took place within this exclusion zone. The five course areas were positioned according to the table below the map but could be moved anywhere within the exclusion zone.

Olympic Course Areas 2012.
Portland Harbour ( (P):) 50° 35.19’ N, 02° 26.54’ W
Nothe Harbour ( (N):) 50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W
Weymouth Bay West ( (W):) 50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W
Weymouth Bay South ( (S):) 50° 35.71’ N 02° 22.08’ W
Weymouth Bay East ( (E):) 50° 36.58’ N 02° 19.70’ W

Competition

Qualification

For more details on this topic, see Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Fifty-seven nations qualified for the sailing events and a further six were allocated places not taken up by qualified nations to give a total of 63 nations participating.^[2] The only countries to have qualified in all events were France, New Zealand, the USA and the hosts, Great Britain;^[2] New Zealand declined to take up their place in the Women's RS-X.^[3]

Overview

Continents	Countries	Classes	Boats	Male	Female
6	63	10	273	237	143

Continents

Africa
Asia
Oceania
Europe
North America
South America

Countries

Countries that participated in the Sailing event of the 1972 Olympic Games.
Blue: Water
Gray: Never participated in OG
Dark Gray: Participated in earlier OG
Green: Country participated for the first time
Dark Blue: Country participated also on previous games
Red: Country boycotted the sailing event of the OG

Argentina (ARG)	Australia (AUS)	Austria (AUT)	Belgium (BEL)
Bermuda (BER)	Belarus (BLR)	Brazil (BRA)	Bulgaria (BUL)
Canada (CAN)	Chile (CHI)	China (CHN)	Cook Islands (COK)
Colombia (COL)	Croatia (CRO)	Cyprus (CYP)	Czech Republic (CZE)
Denmark (DEN)	Egypt (EGY)	Spain (ESP)	Estonia (EST)
Finland (FIN)	France (FRA)	Great Britain (GBR)	Germany (GER)
Greece (GRE)	Guatemala (GUA)	Hong Kong (HKG)	Hungary (HUN)
Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA)	Ireland (IRL)	Israel (ISR)	Virgin Islands (ISV)
Italy (ITA)	Japan (JPN)	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	South Korea (KOR)
Saint Lucia (LCA)	Lithuania (LTU)	Malaysia (MAS)	Mexico (MEX)
Montenegro (MNE)	Monaco (MON)	Netherlands (NED)	Norway (NOR)
New Zealand (NZL)	Peru (PER)	Poland (POL)	Portugal (POR)
South Africa (RSA)	Russia (RUS)	Singapore (SIN)	Slovenia (SLO)
Switzerland (SUI)	Sweden (SWE)	Thailand (THA)	Chinese Taipei (TPE)
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	Tunisia (TUN)	Turkey (TUR)	Ukraine (UKR)
Uruguay (URU)	United States (USA)	Venezuela (VEN)

Classes (equipment)

Class	Type	Sailors	Trapeze	Mainsail	Jib/Genoa	Spinnaker	First OG	Olympics so far
RS:X	Sailboard	1	-	+	-	-	2008	2
RS:X	Sailboard	1	-	+	-	-	2008	2
Laser Radial	Dinghy	1	-	+	-	-	2008	2
Laser	Dinghy	1	-	+	-	-	1996	5
Finn	Dinghy	1	0	+	–	–	1952	16
470	Dinghy	2	1	+	+	+	1988	7
470	Dinghy	2	1	+	+	+	1976	10
49er	Dinghy	2	2	+	+	+	2000	4
Elliott 6m	Keelboat	3	0	+	+	+	2012	1
Star	Keelboat	2	0	+	+	–	1932	18

2012 Olympic Classes designs

Race schedule ^[4]^[5]

●	Opening ceremony	●	Practice race	●	Race	●	Medal race	●	Closing ceremony

Date	July						August
Date	26 Thu	27 Fri	28 Sat	29 Sun	30 Mon	31 Tue	1 Wed	2 Thu	3 Fri	4 Sat	5 Sun	6 Mon	7 Tue	8 Wed	9 Thu	10 Fri	11 Sat	12 Sun
Women's Men's	●		● ● ●	● ● ●	● ●		●	●
Women's Men's				R 2 2	2 RR 2 2 2 2	2 2 RR 2 2 2 2 2	2 2 RR 2 2 2	2 RR 2 2 2 2 2	2 2 2 2 2 3 2	2 2 2 RR 2 2 2	2 2 2 2	2 2	2 KO 2	2 KO	KO	KO
Women's Men's											MR MR	MR MR	MR MR	MR	MR	MR	FP
Total gold medals											2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Ceremonies		●																●
Legend: Matchracing RR = Round Robin phase KO = Knockout phase FP = Finals & Petite Finals Fleetracing MR = Medal races

Medal summary ^[6]

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
RS:X	Dorian van Rijsselberghe Netherlands	Nick Dempsey Great Britain	Przemysław Miarczyński France
Laser	Tom Slingsby Australia	Pavlos Kontides Cyprus	Rasmus Myrgren Sweden
Finn	Ben Ainslie Great Britain	Jonas Høgh-Christensen Denmark	Jonathan Lobert France
470	Australia (AUS) Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page	Great Britain (GBR) Luke Patience Stuart Bithell	Argentina (ARG) Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente
Star	Sweden (SWE) Fredrik Lööf Max Salminen	Great Britain (GBR) Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	Brazil (BRA) Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada
49er	Australia (AUS) Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen	New Zealand (NZL) Peter Burling Blair Tuke	Denmark (DEN) Allan Nørregaard Peter Lang

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
RS:X	Marina Alabau Spain	Tuuli Petäjä Finland	Zofia Klepacka Poland
Laser Radial	Xu Lijia China	Marit Bouwmeester Netherlands	Evi Van Acker Belgium
470	New Zealand (NZL) Jo Aleh Polly Powrie	Great Britain (GBR) Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	Netherlands (NED) Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout
Elliott 6m	Spain (ESP) Támara Echegoyen Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro	Australia (AUS) Olivia Price Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty	Finland (FIN) Silja Lehtinen Silja Kanerva Mikaela Wulff

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	3	1	0	4
2	Spain (ESP)	2	0	0	2
3	Great Britain (GBR)	1	4	0	5
4	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	1	3
5	New Zealand (NZL)	1	1	0	2
6	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	1	2
7	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
8	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
8	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
10	Cyprus (CYP)	0	1	0	1
11	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
12	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	10	30

References

↑ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Notice of Race" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
1 2 "Nations Qualified". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. International Sailing Federation. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
↑ "2012 Olympics: Olympic place rejection signals the end of an era". Sail World. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
↑ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
↑ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment" (PDF). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
↑ "Sailing at the 2012 London Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 1 April 2014.

Events at the 2012 Summer Olympics (London)

Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Sailing at the Summer Olympics

	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

List of medalists by discipline by class List of venues Scoring systems Classes

Olympic venues in sailing

1900: Meulan, Le Havre 1908: Ryde, Hunters Quay 1912: Nynäshamn 1920: Ostend, Buiten Y 1924: Le Havre, Meulan 1928: Buiten Y, Zuiderzee 1932: Los Angeles Harbor 1936: Kiel Bay 1948: Torbay 1952: Harmaja, Liuskasaari 1956: Port Phillip 1960: Gulf of Naples 1964: Enoshima 1968: Club de Yates 1972: Bay of Kiel 1976: Portsmouth Olympic Harbour 1980: Olympic Regatta in Tallinn 1984: Long Beach Shoreline Marina 1988: Busan Yachting Center 1992: Olympic Harbour 1996: Wassaw Sound 2000: Rushcutters Bay 2004: Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre 2008: Qingdao International Sailing Centre 2012: Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy 2016: Marina da Glória 2020: Enoshima

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