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 – 10 August
Competitors40 from 20 nations
Medalists
Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen
 Australia
Peter Burling
Blair Tuke
 New Zealand
Allan Nørregaard
Peter Lang
 Denmark

Schedule[1][2]

  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]

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

Results of individual races
PosHelmsmanCountry IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXXIXIIXIIIXIVXVMRTot Pts
Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen
 Australia8124211069541113866.056.0
Peter Burling
Blair Tuke
 New Zealand97173591172121566495.080.0
Allan Nørregaard
Peter Lang
 Denmark241461615571361644396130.0114.0
4 Nico Delle Karth
Nikolaus Resch
 Austria1015655164194961711442137.0118.0
5 Stevie Morrison
Ben Rhodes
 Great Britain121231842111742013317710144.0124.0
6 Emmanuel Dyen
Stephane Christidis
 France19912110121310OCS 21251071412148.0127.0
7 Lauri Lehtinen
Kalle Bask
 Finland191841168221113111911220148.0129.0
8 Bernardo Freitas
Francisco Andrade
 Portugal721091061358129105141514149.0134.0
9 Giuseppe Angilella
Gianfranco Sibello
 Italy14111310117812153131895116166.0148.0
10 Jonas von Geijer
Niclas Düring
 Sweden5312817414316819618101118172.0153.0
11 Tobias Schadewaldt
Hannes Baumann
 Germany17520191597143110912138 162.0142.0
12 Iker Martinez de Lizarduy
Xabier Fernández
 Spain156731418315121481481512 164.0146.0
13 Łukasz Przybytek
Pawel Kolodzinski
 Poland11141113831510513111271813 164.0146.0
14 Ryan Seaton
Matt McGovern
 Ireland481521219119147157131616 168.0149.0
15 Erik Storck
Trevor Moore
 United States610161713201821752017817 177.0157.0
16 Gordon Cook
Hunter Lowden
 Canada316517917168111678209DNF 21 183.0162.0
17 Pavle Kostov
Petar Cupać
 Croatia131781513141741915173141219 200.0181.0
18 Yukio Makino
Kenji Takahashi
 Japan1613171418111816181814156210 206.0188.0
19 Jesse Kirkland
Alexander Kirkland
 BermudaDNF 211918DNF 21DNF 21126DNF 21610121921918 225.0204.0
20 Dionysios Dimou
Mike Pateniotis
 Greece18201916192019172019181616205 262.0242.0

    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

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

    Further reading

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

    References

    1. "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.
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