Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star

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Men’s Star
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Star (keelboat).svg
Line drawing of the Star
Venue Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates29 July – 5 August
Competitors32 from 16 nations
Teams16 (boats)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Fredrik Lööf
Max Salminen
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Silver medal icon.svg Iain Percy
Andrew Simpson
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg Robert Scheidt
Bruno Prada
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
  2008

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

  Practice race  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 Star 2 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR
Stars during the 2012 Summer Olympics 2012 Olympic Sailing, Weymouth, Dorset.jpg
Stars during the 2012 Summer Olympics

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 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. [3]

Results

Results of individual races
PosHelmsmanCountryIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXMRTotPts
Gold medal icon.svg Fredrik Lööf
Max Salminen
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 10441534126242.032.0
Silver medal icon.svg Iain Percy
Andrew Simpson
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 112321212411645.034.0
Bronze medal icon.svg Robert Scheidt
Bruno Prada
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 41962135131449.040.0
4 Eivind Melleby
Petter Mørland Pedersen
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 7524161184751079.063.0
5 Hamish Pepper
Jim Turner
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 157113659889485.070.0
6 Robert Stanjek
Frithjof Kleen
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 698746BFD 171194687.070.0
7 Mark Mendelblatt
Brian Fatih
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 51453895103111285.071.0
8 Mateusz Kusznierewicz
Dominik Życki
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 93121034291321885.072.0
9 Xavier Rohart
Pierre-Alexis Ponsot
Flag of France.svg  France 11310111214116688100.086.0
10 Peter O'Leary
David Burrows
Flag of Ireland (3-2).svg  Ireland 261451112DSQ 17711720112.095.0
11 Michael Hestbæk
Claus Olesen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 12111314137631410 103.089.0
12 Richard Clarke
Tyler Bjorn
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 16106810OCS 171312513 110.093.0
13 Flavio Marazzi
Enrico De Maria
Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 13811915810131516 118.0102.0
14 Aimilios Papathanasiou
Antonis Tsotras
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 316712715BFD 17DSQ 17OCS 1712 123.0106.0
15 Afonso Domingos
Frederico Melo
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 141515169107141014 124.0108.0
16 Marin Lovrović Jr.
Dan Lovrović
Civil ensign of Croatia.svg  Croatia 8121615141312151215 132.0116.0

    Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
    Legend:  – Qualified for medal race(s);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 Star during the 2012 Summer Olympics 2012 STAR Positions during the serie.png
    Graph showing the daily standings in the men’s Star 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 Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.