| Tornado at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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 Tornado | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Tallinn | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 21 to 29 July | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 11 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics | |
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| Finn | Open |
| 470 | Open |
| Flying Dutchman | Open |
| Tornado | Open |
| Star | Open |
| Soling | Open |
The Tornado was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics program in Tallinn, USSR. Seven races were scheduled. 22 sailors, on 11 boats, from 11 nations competed. [1]
 Rank | Helmsman (Country) | Crew | Race I | Race II | Race III | Race IV | Race V | Race VI | Race VII | Total Points [2] | Total -1 [3] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | |||||
 |  Alexandre Welter  (BRA) | Lars Sigurd Bjorkstrom | 3 | 5.7 | 1 | 0.0 | 3 | 5.7 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 33.1 | 21.4 | ||
 |  Peter Due (DEN) | Per Kjergard | 2 | 3.0 | 2 | 3.0 | 3 | 5.7 | 2 | 3.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 3 | 5.7 | 43.4 | 30.4 | ||
 |  Göran Marström (SWE) | Jörgen Ragnarsson | 1 | 0.0 | 4 | 8.0 | 2 | 3.0 | 6 | 11.7 | 2 | 3.0 | 4 | 8.0 | 46.7 | 33.7 | ||
| 4 |  Viktor Potapov (URS) | Aleksandr Zõbin | 3 | 5.7 | 5 | 10.0 | 4 | 8.0 | 3 | 5.7 | 3 | 5.7 | 1 | 0.0 | 46.8 | 35.1 | ||
| 5 | Willem van Walt Meijer (NED) | Govert Brasser | 4 | 8.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 4 | 8.0 | 2 | 3.0 | 50.7 | 39.0 | ||
| 6 |  Pekka Narko (FIN) | Juha Siira | 5 | 10.0 | 4 | 8.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 4 | 8.0 | 6 | 11.7 | 59.4 | 47.7 | ||
| 7 |  Hubert Porkert (AUT) | Hermann Kupfner | 2 | 3.0 | 7 | 13.0 | 6 | 11.7 | 7 | 13.0 | 7 | 13.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 85.7 | 67.7 | ||
| 8 |  Uwe Steingross (GDR) | Jörg Schramme | 8 | 14.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 7 | 13.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 7 | 13.0 | 100.0 | 82.0 | ||
| 9 |  Bogdan Kramer (POL) | Jarogniew Krüger | 9 | 15.0 | 9 | 15.0 | 9 | 15.0 | 10 | 16.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 9 | 15.0 | 105.0 | 89.0 | ||
| 10 |  Tsvetan Penchev (BUL) | Krasimir Krastev | 11 | 17.0 | 10 | 16.0 | 10 | 16.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 9 | 15.0 | 10 | 16.0 | 112.0 | 94.0 | ||
| 11 |  Andrei Chiliman (ROM) | Cătălin Luchian | 10 | 16.0 | 11 | 17.0 | 10 | 16.0 | 11 | 17.0 | 9 | 15.0 | 11 | 17.0 | 115.0 | 98.0 | ||
DNF = Did Not Finish, DNS= Did Not Start, DSQ = Disqualified, PMS = Premature Start, YMP = Yacht Materially Prejudiced
= Male, 
= Female
Sailing has been included as an event at every Summer Olympics since 1896 except the 1904 Summer Olympics. At the 1980 Summer Olympics sailing events were organised into six classes. In each class seven races in a particular sailing discipline were contested between the 19 and 29 July 1980. The Olympic city in 1980 was Moscow, but all sailing events took place in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Pirita, in Tallinn in present-day Estonia. At the time Tallinn was part of the Soviet Union. Events at this olympiad used triangular-type Olympic courses.
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Geert Alle Bakker was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. With crew Pieter Keijzer and Harald de Vlaming Bakker took the 5th place in the Soling. Since in 1980 The Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Bakker again in the Soling represented his National Olympic Committee under the Dutch NOC flag. This time with crew Dick Coster and his son Steven Bakker They took again 5th place.
Sjoerd Steven Vollebregt is a sailor from the Netherlands who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Kingston, Ontario. With twin brother Erik Vollebregt as helmsman, Vollebregt finished 14th in the Sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman. Since in 1980 the Netherlands boycotted the Moscow Olympics, Vollebregt represented his National Olympic Committee under the Dutch NOC flag in the Flying Dutchman. Again with his brother as helmsman, he took 7th place.
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Benedictus Antonius Maria "Dick" Coster is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Coster represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. With Geert Bakker as helmsman and fellow crew member Steven Bakker, Coster took the 5th place in the Soling. During the 1976 Olympics Coster was substitute for the Dutch Soling team.
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Govert Jacob Willem Brasser is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Brasser represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics, which was boycotted by several countries, in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. With Willem van Walt Meijer as helmsman, Brasser took the 5th place in the Tornado.
Willem Scato van Walt Meijer is a sailor from the Netherlands, Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Van Walt Meijer represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics, which was boycotted by several countries, in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. With Govert Brasser as crew, Van Walt Meijer took the 5th place in the Tornado. Van Walt Meijer returned as crew with Boudewijn Binkhorst in the Star to the 1984 Olympics. There they took 8th place.
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