Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 49er

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.

Men's 49er
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the 49er
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates30 July – 8 August
Competitors40 from 20 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen
 Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Peter Burling
Blair Tuke
 New Zealand
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Allan Nørregaard
Peter Lang
 Denmark
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Schedule[1][2]

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 ●  Practice race  ●  Race on Portland  ●  Race on Nothe  ●  Race on West  ●  Medal race on Nothe
Date July August
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 49er 2 2 2 2 3 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR
 
49ers Race 11 on 3 August

Course areas and course configurations [3]

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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

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Results of individual races
Pos Helmsman Country I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV MR Tot Pts
  Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen
  Australia 8 1 2 4 2 1 10 6 9 5 4 1 1 1 3 8 66.0 56.0
  Peter Burling
Blair Tuke
  New Zealand 9 7 1 7 3 5 9 11 7 2 1 2 15 6 6 4 95.0 80.0
  Allan Nørregaard
Peter Lang
  Denmark 2 4 14 6 16 15 5 7 13 6 16 4 4 3 9 6 130.0 114.0
4 Nico Delle Karth
Nikolaus Resch
  Austria 10 15 6 5 5 16 4 19 4 9 6 17 11 4 4 2 137.0 118.0
5 Stevie Morrison
Ben Rhodes
  Great Britain 12 12 3 18 4 2 1 1 17 4 20 13 3 17 7 10 144.0 124.0
6 Emmanuel Dyen
Stéphane Christidis
  France 1 9 9 12 1 10 12 13 10 OCS 21 2 5 10 7 14 12 148.0 127.0
7 Lauri Lehtinen
Kalle Bask
  Finland 19 18 4 11 6 8 2 2 1 11 3 11 19 11 2 20 148.0 129.0
8 Bernardo Freitas
Francisco Andrade
  Portugal 7 2 10 9 10 6 13 5 8 12 9 10 5 14 15 14 149.0 134.0
9 Giuseppe Angilella
Gianfranco Sibello
  Italy 14 11 13 10 11 7 8 12 15 3 13 18 9 5 1 16 166.0 148.0
10 Jonas von Geijer
Niclas Düring
  Sweden 5 3 12 8 17 4 14 3 16 8 19 6 18 10 11 18 172.0 153.0
11 Tobias Schadewaldt
Hannes Baumann
  Germany 17 5 20 19 15 9 7 14 3 1 10 9 12 13 8   162.0 142.0
12 Iker Martínez de Lizarduy
Xabier Fernández
  Spain 15 6 7 3 14 18 3 15 12 14 8 14 8 15 12   164.0 146.0
13 Łukasz Przybytek
Paweł Kołodziński
  Poland 11 14 11 13 8 3 15 10 5 13 11 12 7 18 13   164.0 146.0
14 Ryan Seaton
Matt McGovern
  Ireland 4 8 15 2 12 19 11 9 14 7 15 7 13 16 16   168.0 149.0
15 Erik Storck
Trevor Moore
  United States 6 10 16 1 7 13 20 18 2 17 5 20 17 8 17   177.0 157.0
16 Gordon Cook
Hunter Lowden
  Canada 3 16 5 17 9 17 16 8 11 16 7 8 20 9 DNF 21   183.0 162.0
17 Pavle Kostov
Petar Cupać
  Croatia 13 17 8 15 13 14 17 4 19 15 17 3 14 12 19   200.0 181.0
18 Yukio Makino
Kenji Takahashi
  Japan 16 13 17 14 18 11 18 16 18 18 14 15 6 2 10   206.0 188.0
19 Jesse Kirkland
Alexander Kirkland
  Bermuda DNF 21 19 18 DNF 21 DNF 21 12 6 DNF 21 6 10 12 19 2 19 18   225.0 204.0
20 Dionysios Dimou
Mike Pateniotis
  Greece 18 20 19 16 19 20 19 17 20 19 18 16 16 20 5   262.0 242.0

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

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Graph showing the daily standings in the men's 49er during the 2012 Summer Olympics

Further reading

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  • "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  • "London 2012". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.

References

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  1. ^ a b "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.