| 2012 | |
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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location |  Cadiz, Spain |
| Month played | From 20 to 28 March |
| Established | 1980 |
| Format | World Championship |
| Current champion | |
 Julien Bontemps (men) Lee Korzits (women) | |
The 2012 RS:X World Championships were held in Cadiz, Spain (Puerto Sherry) between March 20 and March 28.
The regattas of the medal race were canceled due to strong winds. [1]
| # | Sailor | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | Tot. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Julien Bontemps | 1.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | (6.0) | 3.0 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 24.0 |
 |  Nick Dempsey | 9.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | (12.0) | 2.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 26.0 |
 |  Jon-Paul Tobin | 5.0 | (13.0) | 3.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 31.0 |
| 4 |  Dorian van Rijsselberghe | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | (9.0) | 4.6 | 31.6 |
| 5 |  Byron Kokkalanis | (8.0) | 1.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 32.0 |
| 6 |  Przemysław Miarczyński | (61.0) | 3.0 | 6.0 | 12.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 | 53.0 |
| 7 | Nimrod Mashiah | 1.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | (14.0) | 7.0 | 14.0 | 7.0 | 5.0 | 9.0 | 54.0 |
| 8 |  Toni Wilhelm | 2.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 7.0 | 9.0 | (30.0) | 8.0 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 55.0 |
| 9 | Shahar Tzuberi | 7.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 6.0 | (27.0) | 8.0 | 69.0 |
| 10 | Piotr Myszka | 3.0 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 18.0 | 14.0 | (23.0) | 9.0 | 10.0 | 13.0 | 86.0 |
| 11 | Michal Majewski | 7.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 17.0 | 16.0 | (34.0) | 23.0 | 95.0 |
| 12 |  João Rodrigues | 12.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 11.0 | (28.0) | 22.0 | 21.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 110.0 |
| 13 | Iván Pastor | 6.0 | 21.0 | 7.0 | 21.0 | 8.0 | (61.0) | 7.0 | 32.0 | 14.0 | 11.0 | 127.0 |
| 14 |  Makoto Tomizawa | 10.0 | 10.0 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 22.0 | (23.0) | 19.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 18.0 | 129.0 |
| 15 | Pierre Le Coq | 11.0 | (26.0) | 9.0 | 11.0 | 16.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 13.0 | 18.0 | 19.0 | 133.0 |
| 16 |  Zachary Plavsic | 4.0 | 20.0 | 11.0 | 15.0 | 13.0 | 19.0 | 12.0 | 22.0 | (35.0) | 22.0 | 138.0 |
| 17 |  Lee Tae-hoon | 8.0 | 7.0 | 21.0 | 17.0 | 20.0 | 13.0 | 21.0 | 14.0 | 19.0 | (39.0) | 140.0 |
| 18 | Benoit Bigot | 11.0 | 23.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 17.0 | 26.0 | 10.0 | (37.0) | 22.0 | 31.0 | 149.0 |
| 19 |  Andreas Cariolou | 20.0 | 19.0 | 14.0 | 13.0 | 21.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 19.0 | 29.0 | (36.0) | 151.0 |
| 20 |  Dmitrii Polishchuk | 40.0 | 13.0 | 15.0 | 13.0 | 15.0 | 20.0 | 9.0 | 12.0 | (61.0) | 15.0 | 152.0 |
| 21 | HUG Louis Benoit | 13.0 | 21.0 | 11.0 | 2.0 | 28.0 | (35.0) | 25.0 | 15.0 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 165.0 |
| 22 | Louis Giard | 2.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | (36.0) | 26.0 | 25.0 | 29.0 | 17.0 | 23.0 | 30.0 | 166.0 |
| 23 | Thomas Goyard | 25.0 | 24.0 | 17.0 | 3.0 | (47.0) | 15.0 | 24.0 | 29.0 | 13.0 | 17.0 | 167.0 |
| 24 | Ron Asulin | 28.0 | 18.0 | 12.0 | 18.0 | (40.0) | 16.0 | 20.0 | 23.0 | 6.0 | 26.0 | 167.0 |
| 25 |  Richard Stauffacher | 15.0 | 14.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 19.0 | 27.0 | 27.0 | 25.0 | 31.0 | (44.0) | 178.0 |
| 26 | Juan-Manuel Moreno | 16.0 | 8.0 | 16.0 | 26.0 | 25.0 | 17.0 | 33.0 | 18.0 | (38.0) | 21.0 | 180.0 |
| 27 |  Maksym Oberemko | 18.0 | 22.0 | 7.0 | 20.0 | 27.0 | 22.0 | (35.0) | 30.0 | 33.0 | 14.0 | 193.0 |
| 28 | Pawel Tarnowski | 18.0 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 19.0 | 43.0 | 24.0 | 15.0 | (44.0) | 26.0 | 29.0 | 196.0 |
| 29 | Tom Ashley | 5.0 | 16.0 | 28.0 | 22.0 | 42.0 | 29.0 | (43.0) | 24.0 | 20.0 | 16.0 | 202.0 |
| 30 | Connor Bainbridge | 16.0 | 29.0 | 16.0 | 24.0 | 33.0 | 21.0 | 13.0 | 31.0 | 21.0 | (37.0) | 204.0 |
| # | Sailor | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | Tot. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Korzits | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | (6.0) | 4.0 | 2.0 | 13.0 |
| Zofia Klepacka | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | (5.0) | 3.0 | 18.0 |
|  Alessandra Sensini | (12.0) | 9.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 25.0 |
| 4 | Bryony Shaw | (10.0) | 6.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 39.0 |
| 5 | Maja Dziarnowska | 1.0 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | (16.0) | 10.0 | 9.0 | 43.0 |
| 6 | Maayan Davidovich | 9.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 7.0 | (16.0) | 5.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 55.0 |
| 7 | Charline Picon | 8.0 | 12.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 4.0 | (13.0) | 11.0 | 58.0 |
| 8 | Flavia Tartaglini | 11.0 | 4.0 | (41.0) | 3.0 | 7.0 | 12.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 61.0 |
| 9 | Olga Maslivets | 6.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 10.0 | 17.0 | (26.0) | 26.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 72.0 |
| 10 | Marina Alabau | 5.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 33.0 | (35.0) | 75.0 |
| 11 | Nikola Girke | 14.0 | 13.0 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | (15.0) | 8.0 | 10.0 | 78.0 |
| 12 | Moana Delle | 2.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 16.0 | 9.0 | (23.0) | 20.0 | 79.0 |
| 13 |  Jessica Crisp | 3.0 | 13.0 | 6.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 10.0 | 14.0 | 17.0 | (18.0) | 86.0 |
| 14 |  Tuuli Petaja | 10.0 | 8.0 | (41.0) | 9.0 | 25.0 | 14.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 13.0 | 93.0 |
| 15 | Natalia Kosińska | 4.0 | 5.0 | 9.0 | 19.0 | (33.0) | 22.0 | 20.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 103.0 |
| 16 |  Chan Wai Kei | 15.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 14.0 | (36.0) | 20.0 | 25.0 | 18.0 | 15.0 | 114.0 |
| 17 | Angeliki Skarlatou | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 9.0 | 15.0 | 13.0 | (41.0) | 27.0 | 32.0 | 114.0 |
| 18 | Izzy Hamilton | 19.0 | 15.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 23.0 | (30.0) | 30.0 | 11.0 | 6.0 | 115.0 |
| 19 | Hélène Noesmoen | 17.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 8.0 | 18.0 | 15.0 | 17.0 | (29.0) | 19.0 | 115.0 |
| 20 | Agnieszka Bilska | 11.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 14.0 | 21.0 | 18.0 | 16.0 | (25.0) | 115.0 |
| 21 | Pauline Perrin | 16.0 | 15.0 | 19.0 | 4.0 | 19.0 | 18.0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | (33.0) | 116.0 |
| 22 | Blanca Manchón | 2.0 | 2.0 | (41.0) | 10.0 | 10.0 | 7.0 | 19.0 | 41.0 | 41.0 | 132.0 |
| 23 |  Li Ling | 4.0 | 7.0 | (41.0) | 15.0 | 5.0 | 17.0 | 33.0 | 26.0 | 26.0 | 133.0 |
| 24 | Hayley Victoria Chan Hei Man | 7.0 | 12.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 26.0 | 24.0 | (37.0) | 22.0 | 17.0 | 134.0 |
| 25 | Laura Linares | 16.0 | 11.0 | (41.0) | 17.0 | 20.0 | 28.0 | 13.0 | 15.0 | 14.0 | 134.0 |
| 26 | Hanna Zembrzuska | 13.0 | 14.0 | 20.0 | 7.0 | (29.0) | 27.0 | 12.0 | 25.0 | 24.0 | 142.0 |
| 27 | Ning Wang | 12.0 | 9.0 | (41.0) | 6.0 | 27.0 | 19.0 | 35.0 | 21.0 | 16.0 | 145.0 |
| 28 | Yue Huang | 6.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 16.0 | (34.0) | 29.0 | 29.0 | 30.0 | 23.0 | 147.0 |
| 29 |  Jannicke Stålstrøm | 7.0 | (41.0) | 7.0 | 16.0 | 24.0 | 23.0 | 24.0 | 19.0 | 31.0 | 151.0 |
| 30 | Yuki Sunaga | 13.0 | 3.0 | (41.0) | 14.0 | 22.0 | 33.0 | 23.0 | 35.0 | 22.0 | 165.0 |
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