Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 470

The women’s 470 was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy,[1] in the 470 dinghy. Eleven 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.

Women’s 470
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the 470
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates3–10 August
Competitors40 from 20 nations
Teams20 (boats)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jo Aleh
Polly Powrie
 New Zealand
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hannah Mills
Saskia Clark
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lisa Westerhof
Lobke Berkhout
 Netherlands
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Schedule[1][2]

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 ●  Practice race  ●  Race on Portland  ●  Race on Nothe  ●  Race on West  ●  Race on South  ●  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
Women’s 470 2 2 1 1 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR

Course areas and course configurations [3]

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Course areas

For the 470 course areas Portland, Nothe, West, and South 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, 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.

Results

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Results of individual races
Pos Helmsman Country I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X MR Tot Pts
  Jo Aleh
Polly Powrie
  New Zealand 2 6 2 5 10 4 1 1 2 18 2 53.0 35.0
  Hannah Mills
Saskia Clark
  Great Britain 6 1 4 6 1 6 5 2 8 2 18 59.0 51.0
  Lisa Westerhof
Lobke Berkhout
  Netherlands 1 8 6 4 2 18 4 3 20 6 12 84.0 64.0
4 Camille Lecointre
Mathilde Géron
  France 10 17 1 8 12 3 7 6 3 5 10 82.0 65.0
5 Giulia Conti
Giovanna Micol
  Italy 8 10 18 2 3 1 16 16 6 7 4 91.0 73.0
6 Fernanda Oliveira
Ana Barbachan
  Brazil 11 5 14 1 6 10 10 9 5 4 14 89.0 75.0
7 Elise Rechichi
Belinda Stowell
  Australia 14 7 3 DSQ 21 9 7 9 13 4 1 16 104.0 83.0
8 Kathrin Kadelbach
Friederike Belcher
  Germany 19 2 7 13 15 5 6 5 14 11 6 103.0 84.0
9 Amanda Clark
Sarah Lihan
  United States 7 3 5 7 19 20 3 8 17 9 20 118.0 98.0
10 Tara Pacheco
Berta Betanzos
  Spain 15 14 8 16 13 8 11 4 7 13 8 117.0 101.0
11 Wang Xiaoli
Huang Xufeng
  China 18 18 9 12 8 19 2 17 1 12   116.0 97.0
12 Agnieszka Skrzypulec
Jolanta Ogar
  Poland 13 13 20 17 7 2 18 7 11 10   118.0 98.0
13 María Fernanda Sesto
Consuelo Monsegur
  Argentina 16 19 19 3 5 12 14 11 15 3   117.0 98.0
14 Ai Kondo
Wakako Tabata
  Japan 9 4 17 19 11 9 13 DSQ 21 13 8   124.0 103.0
15 Gil Cohen
Vered Bouskila
  Israel 3 DSQ 21 10 18 4 14 12 15 12 17   126.0 105.0
16 Henriette Koch
Lene Sommer
  Denmark 5 12 16 10 14 16 15 10 9 15   122.0 106.0
17 Enia Ninčević
Romana Župan
  Croatia 4 16 13 11 20 11 8 19 19 14   135.0 115.0
18 Tina Mrak
Teja Černe
  Slovenia 12 9 12 14 17 17 17 14 16 16   144.0 127.0
19 Lisa Ericson
Astrid Gabrielsson
  Sweden 17 11 11 9 16 15 19 12 18 20   148.0 128.0
20 Lara Vadlau
Eva-Maria Schimak
  Austria 20 15 15 15 18 13 20 18 10 19   163.0 143.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); DSQ – Disqualified; – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Daily standings

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Graph showing the daily standings in the Women’s 470 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. ^ "Women's Two Person Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.