Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star

Men’s Star
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Men’s Star; at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
	Line drawing of the Star
Venue	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates	29 July – 5 August
Competitors	32 from 16 nations
Teams	16 (boats)
Medalists
	← 2008

Last updated January 15, 2024

The men's Star was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.^[1] Eleven races (the last one being a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 32 sailors, on 16 boats, from 16 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 West	●	Race on South	●	Medal race on Nothe

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
Men’s Star			●	2	2	2	Spare day	2	2	Spare day	MR

Course areas and course configurations ^[3]

For the Star course areas Nothe, West, and South were used. 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 – 75 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations.

Results

Results of individual races
Pos	Helmsman	Country	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X	MR	Tot	Pts
	Fredrik Lööf Max Salminen	Sweden	10^†	4	4	1	5	3	4	1	2	6	2	42.0	32.0
	Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	Great Britain	11^†	2	3	2	1	2	1	2	4	1	16	45.0	34.0
	Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada	Brazil	4	1	9^†	6	2	1	3	5	1	3	14	49.0	40.0
4	Eivind Melleby Petter Mørland Pedersen	Norway	7	5	2	4	16^†	11	8	4	7	5	10	79.0	63.0
5	Hamish Pepper Jim Turner	New Zealand	15^†	7	1	13	6	5	9	8	8	9	4	85.0	70.0
6	Robert Stanjek Frithjof Kleen	Germany	6	9	8	7	4	6	BFD 17^†	11	9	4	6	87.0	70.0
7	Mark Mendelblatt Brian Fatih	United States	5	14^†	5	3	8	9	5	10	3	11	12	85.0	71.0
8	Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Życki	Poland	9	3	12	10	3	4	2	9	13^†	2	18	85.0	72.0
9	Xavier Rohart Pierre-Alexis Ponsot	France	1	13	10	11	12	14^†	11	6	6	8	8	100.0	86.0
10	Peter O'Leary David Burrows	Ireland	2	6	14	5	11	12	DSQ 17^†	7	11	7	20	112.0	95.0
11	Michael Hestbæk Claus Olesen	Denmark	12	11	13	14^†	13	7	6	3	14	10		103.0	89.0
12	Richard Clarke Tyler Bjorn	Canada	16	10	6	8	10	OCS 17^†	13	12	5	13		110.0	93.0
13	Flavio Marazzi Enrico De Maria	Switzerland	13	8	11	9	15	8	10	13	15	16^†		118.0	102.0
14	Aimilios Papathanasiou Antonis Tsotras	Greece	3	16	7	12	7	15	BFD 17^†	DSQ 17	OCS 17	12		123.0	106.0
15	Afonso Domingos Frederico Melo	Portugal	14	15	15	16^†	9	10	7	14	10	14		124.0	108.0
16	Marin Lovrović Jr. Dan Lovrović	Croatia	8	12	16^†	15	14	13	12	15	12	15		132.0	116.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: ^[4]
Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s);DSQ – Disqualified;OCS – On the course side of the starting line;† – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Daily standings

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References

1 2 "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Notice of Race" (PDF). 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.
↑ "Men's Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.

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[B-1] 1 2 "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Notice of Race" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.

[C-2] "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.

[D-3] "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment" (PDF). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.

[4] "Men's Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.

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Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star

Contents

Schedule^[1]^[2]

Course areas and course configurations ^[3]

Results

Daily standings

Further reading

Related Research Articles

References

Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

RS:X	men	women
Laser Radial		women
Laser	men
Finn	open
470	men	women
49er	open
Elliott 6m		women
Star	men
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Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star

Contents

Schedule [1] [2]

Course areas and course configurations [3]

Results

Daily standings

Further reading

Related Research Articles

References

Schedule^[1]^[2]

Course areas and course configurations ^[3]