Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Finn

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Men's Finn
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Finn dinghy.svg
Line drawing of the Finn
Venue Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates29 July – 5 August
Competitors24 from 24 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Ben Ainslie Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Jonas Høgh-Christensen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Bronze medal icon.svg Jonathan Lobert Flag of France.svg  France
  2008
2016  

The Men's Finn was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. [1] Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 24 sailors, on 24 boats, from 24 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.

Summary

Ben Ainslie's gold postbox in Lymington Ben Ainslie's gold postbox in Lymington, Hampshire (2).jpg
Ben Ainslie's gold postbox in Lymington

Ben Ainslie took his fifth consecutive sailing medal, and his fourth consecutive gold. However, there was a heavy battle with Jonas Høgh Christensen of Denmark that was only decided at the last mark of the medal race. Ainslie and Høgh Christensen finally had an equal number of points but Ainslie had a higher score in one of the races.

Dutchman Pieter-Jan Postma almost took the gold while Ainslie and Høgh Christensen were battling it out, but at the last buoy Postma hit the camera on the New Zealand boat and took a penalty lap, dropping him to 4th place.

Ainslie took over the position of Paul Elvstrøm as most successful Olympic sailor with one silver medal in 1996 (Laser) and fourth consecutive gold 2000 (Laser), 2004 (Finn), 2008 (Finn) and 2012 (Finn). Elvstrøm won the Firefly in 1948 and the Finn in 1952, 1956 and 1960.

Schedule

  Practice race  Race on Nothe  Race on West  Race on South  Medal race on Nothe
Date [1] [2] JulyAugust
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
Men's Finn 1 1 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR

Course areas and course configurations

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 Finn course areas Nothe, West, and South. The location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area, the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area and the location (50° 35.71’ N 02° 22.08’ W) points to the center of the South course area. The target time for the course was 60 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations. [3]

Results

Results of individual races
PosHelmsmanCountryIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXMRTotPts
Gold medal icon.svg Ben Ainslie Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 226124313611858.046.0
Silver medal icon.svg Jonas Høgh-Christensen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 11271284532054.046.0
Bronze medal icon.svg Jonathan Lobert Flag of France.svg  France 94426751037259.049.0
4 Pieter-Jan Postma Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 51034201322121072.052.0
5 Ivan Kljaković Gašpić Civil ensign of Croatia.svg  Croatia 33795637410865.055.0
6 Vasilij Žbogar Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 86538596261472.063.0
7 Dan Slater Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 7111617116158144100.083.0
8 Rafael Trujillo Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 12121223741511346109.086.0
9 Daniel Birgmark Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 17514199101210812107.090.0
10 Tapio Nirkko Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 11138531245151716109.092.0
11 Deniss Karpak Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 14911111117131111 99.085.0
12 Zach Railey Flag of the United States.svg  United States 10151317281281219 116.097.0
13 Brendan Casey Flag of Australia.svg  Australia DNF 257DPI 1614101719995 131.0106.0
14 Ioannis Mitakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 421108OCS 2510201979 133.0108.0
15 Greg Douglas Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 16241613121813172012 160.0137.0
16 Piotr Kula Flag of Poland.svg  Poland DSQ 251617161320OCS 25111416 173.0148.0
17 Eduard Skornyakov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1382215192216162222 175.0153.0
18 Alican Kaynar Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 18141818DNE 251411221620 176.0154.0
19 Oleksiy Borysov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine RDG 21RDG 18.61919151923141718 183.6160.6
20 Jorge Zarif Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 15201520162414211921 185.0161.0
21 Michal Maier Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 19182110182318202315 185.0162.0
22 Filippo Baldassari Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 20232421142117181813 188.0164.0
23 Florian Raudaschl Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 6192324OCS 251521242423 204.0179.0
24 Gong Lei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China OCS 25172022OCS 251622232124 215.0190.0

    Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
    Legend:  – Qualified for medal race(s);DNE – Non excludable disqualification;DNF – Did not finish;DSQ – Disqualified;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 Finn during the 2012 Summer Olympics 2012 FINN Positions during the serie.png
    Graph showing the daily standings in the Men's Finn during the 2012 Summer Olympics

    Further reading

    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 One Person Heavyweight Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2014.