Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Soling

The Soling Three Person Keelboat was sailed at the 2000 Summer Olympics held from 17 to 30 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia. The series started as a fleet race and then switched to match racing for the twelve best crew. 16 crews from 16 countries competed on 16 boats with a total of 48 sailors.[1]

Fleet/Match
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueSydney
DatesFirst race: 17 September 2000
Last race: 30 September 2000
Competitors48 from 16 nations
Teams16
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jesper Bank
Henrik Blakskjær
Thomas Jacobsen
 Denmark
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jochen Schümann
Gunnar Bahr
Ingo Borkowski
 Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Herman Horn Johannessen
Paul Davis
Espen Stokkeland
 Norway
← 1996

The Norwegian crew of Herman Horn Johannessen, Paul Davis and Espen Stokkeland finished first in the fleet racing stage, while Danish crew of Jesper Bank, Henrik Blakskjær and Thomas Jacobsen won the Olympic gold medal by beating the German crew of 1996 champion helmsman Jochen Schümann, Gunnar Bahr and Ingo Borkowski with 4–3 in the final series. Norway won the bronze medal through beating the Netherlands with 3–1 in matches.

Results

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Fleet race

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Points are assigned based on the finishing position in each race (1 for first, 2 for second, etc.). The points are totalled from the top 10 results of the 11 races, with lower totals being better. If a sailor was disqualified or did not complete the race, 26 points are assigned for that race (as there were 25 sailors in this competition).

Results of individual races
Pos Crew Country I II III IV V VI Tot Pts
1 Herman Horn Johannessen
Paul Davis
Espen Stokkeland
  Norway 5 2 1 3 5 DNS 17 33 16
2 Rod Davis
Don Cowie
Alan Smith
  New Zealand 3 3 10 2 7 3 28 18
3 Roy Heiner
Peter van Niekerk
Dirk de Ridder
  Netherlands 1 5 13 11 1 1 32 19
4 Jeff Madrigali
Craig Healy
Hartwell Jordan
  United States 4 14 2 16 2 2 40 24
5 Georgy Shayduko
Oleg Khopyorsky
Andrey Kirilyuk
  Russia 2 8 4 8 6 9 37 28
6 Neville Wittey
Josh Grace
David Edwards
  Australia 8 11 6 1 9 14 49 35
7 Andy Beadsworth
Richard Sydenham
Barry Parkin
  Great Britain 13 7 8 4 4 13 49 36
8 Sergiy Pichugin
Volodymyr Korotkov
Sergiy Timokhov
  Ukraine 12 1 7 6 OCS 17 12 55 38
9 Philippe Presti
Pascal Rambeau
Jean-Marie Dauris
  France 9 13 11 9 3 7 52 39
10 Jochen Schümann
Gunnar Bahr
Ingo Borkowski
  Germany 14 10 3 7 10 11 55 41
11 Hans Wallen
Johan Barne
Magnus Augustson
  Sweden 7 15 5 10 OCS 17 5 59 42
12 Jesper Bank
Henrik Blakskjær
Thomas Jacobsen
  Denmark 6 16 12 12 11 4 61 45
13 Bill Abbott
Matt Abbott
Brad Boston
  Canada 10 9 9 13 12 8 61 48
14 Nicola Celon
Daniele De Luca
Michele Paoletti
  Italy 16 6 14 5 14 10 65 49
15 Jali Mäkilä
Eki Heinonen
Sami Tamminen
  Finland 11 4 15 14 13 15 72 57
16 Manuel Doreste
Domingo Manrique
Juan Luis Wood
  Spain 15 12 16 15 8 6 74 58

Legend:   – Advance to Quarter-finals;   – Advance to Round robin 2;   – Advance to Round robin 1; DNS – Did not start; OCSOn the course side of the starting line; – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Match race

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Round robin 1

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Pos Team Pld W L GER SWE DEN FRA UKR GBR
1   Germany 5 4[a] 1 Advance to Round robin 2 W L W W W
2   Sweden 5 4[a] 1 L W W W W
3   Denmark 5 3 2 W L W W L
4   France 5 2 3 L L L W W
5   Ukraine 5 1[b] 4 L L L L W
6   Great Britain 5 1[b] 4 L L W L L
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: [citation needed]
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Germany won against Sweden.
  2. ^ a b Ukraine won against Great Britain.

Round robin 2

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Pos Team Pld W L DEN GER RUS SWE AUS USA
1   Denmark 5 4 1 Advance to Quarter-finals W W L W W
2   Germany 5 3[a] 2 L W W W L
3   Russia 5 3[a] 2 L L W W W
4   Sweden 5 3[a] 2 W L L W W
5   Australia 5 1[b] 4 L L L L W
6   United States 5 1[b] 4 L W L L L
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: [citation needed]
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c Germany won against Russia and Sweden, Russia won against Sweden.
  2. ^ a b Australia won against USA.

Quarter-finals

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Pos Team Pld W L DEN GER NED NOR NZL RUS
1   Denmark 5 4[a] 1 Advance to Semi-finals L W W W W
2   Germany 5 4[a] 1 W W W W L
3   Netherlands 5 2[b] 3 L L L W W
4   Norway 5 2[b] 3 L L W L W
5   New Zealand 5 2[b] 3 L L L W W
6   Russia 5 1 4 L W L L L
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: [citation needed]
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Denmark won against Germany.
  2. ^ a b c Netherlands won against New Zealand and Norway, Norway won against New Zealand.

Semi-finals

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Team I II III IV Pts
  Germany L W W W 3
  Netherlands W L L L 1
Team I II III IV Pts
  Denmark W L W W 3
  Norway L W L L 1

Match for third place

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Team I II III IV Pts
  Norway W L W W 3
  Netherlands L W L L 1

Final

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Team I II III IV V VI VII Pts
  Denmark W L L W L W W 4
  Germany L W W L W L L 3

References

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  1. ^ "Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics: Three Person Keelboat (Soling), Open". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

Sources

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