Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 49er

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Men's 49er
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
49er skiff.svg
Line drawing of the 49er
Venue Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates30 July – 8 August
Competitors40 from 20 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg Peter Burling
Blair Tuke
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Bronze medal icon.svg Allan Nørregaard
Peter Lang
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
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The men's 49er was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. [1] Sixteen races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 40 sailors, on 20 boats, from 20 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.

Schedule [1] [2]

  Practice race  Race on Portland  Race on Nothe  Race on West  Medal race on Nothe
DateJulyAugust
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Thu
27
Fri
28
Sat
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Sun
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Mon
31
Tue
1
Wed
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Thu
3
Fri
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Sat
5
Sun
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Mon
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Tue
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Wed
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Thu
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Fri
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Sat
12
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Men's 49er 2 2 2 2 3 Spare
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49ers Race 11 on 3 August Weymouth Olympics mens 49er race.jpg
49ers Race 11 on 3 August

Course areas and course configurations [3]

Course areas

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Portland (P)
Nothe (N)
West (W)
South (S)
East (E) Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics Course areas.png
Course areas

For the 49er course areas Portland, Nothe, and West were used. The location (50° 35.19’ N, 02° 26.54’ W) points to the center Portland course area, the location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area and the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area. The target time for the course was 30 minutes for the races as well as the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations.

Results

Results of individual races
PosHelmsmanCountryIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXXIXIIXIIIXIVXVMRTotPts
Gold medal icon.svg Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 8124211069541113866.056.0
Silver medal icon.svg Peter Burling
Blair Tuke
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 97173591172121566495.080.0
Bronze medal icon.svg Allan Nørregaard
Peter Lang
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 241461615571361644396130.0114.0
4 Nico Delle Karth
Nikolaus Resch
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1015655164194961711442137.0118.0
5 Stevie Morrison
Ben Rhodes
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 121231842111742013317710144.0124.0
6 Emmanuel Dyen
Stéphane Christidis
Flag of France.svg  France 19912110121310OCS 21251071412148.0127.0
7 Lauri Lehtinen
Kalle Bask
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 191841168221113111911220148.0129.0
8 Bernardo Freitas
Francisco Andrade
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 721091061358129105141514149.0134.0
9 Giuseppe Angilella
Gianfranco Sibello
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14111310117812153131895116166.0148.0
10 Jonas von Geijer
Niclas Düring
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 5312817414316819618101118172.0153.0
11 Tobias Schadewaldt
Hannes Baumann
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 17520191597143110912138 162.0142.0
12 Iker Martínez de Lizarduy
Xabier Fernández
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 156731418315121481481512 164.0146.0
13 Łukasz Przybytek
Paweł Kołodziński
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 11141113831510513111271813 164.0146.0
14 Ryan Seaton
Matt McGovern
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 481521219119147157131616 168.0149.0
15 Erik Storck
Trevor Moore
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 610161713201821752017817 177.0157.0
16 Gordon Cook
Hunter Lowden
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 316517917168111678209DNF 21 183.0162.0
17 Pavle Kostov
Petar Cupać
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 131781513141741915173141219 200.0181.0
18 Yukio Makino
Kenji Takahashi
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1613171418111816181814156210 206.0188.0
19 Jesse Kirkland
Alexander Kirkland
Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda DNF 211918DNF 21DNF 21126DNF 21610121921918 225.0204.0
20 Dionysios Dimou
Mike Pateniotis
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 18201916192019172019181616205 262.0242.0

    Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
    Legend:  – Qualified for medal race(s);DNF – Did not finish;OCSOn the course side of the starting line; – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

    Daily standings

    Graph showing the daily standings in the men's 49er during the 2012 Summer Olympics 2012 49er Positions during the serie.png
    Graph showing the daily standings in the men's 49er during the 2012 Summer Olympics

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    References

    1. 1 2 "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Notice of Race" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
    2. "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
    3. "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment" (PDF). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
    4. "Men's Skiff". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.