Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Finn

The Men's Finn was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.[1] Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 24 sailors, on 24 boats, from 24 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 Finn
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Finn
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates29 July – 5 August
Competitors24 from 24 nations
Medalists
Ben Ainslie  Great Britain
Jonas Høgh-Christensen  Denmark
Jonathan Lobert  France

Summary

Ben Ainslie's gold postbox in Lymington

Ben Ainslie took his fifth consecutive sailing medal, and his fourth consecutive gold. However, there was a heavy battle with Jonas Høgh Christensen of Denmark that was only decided at the last mark of the medal race. Ainslie and Høgh Christensen finally had an equal amount of point but Ainslie had a higher score in one of the races.

Dutchman Pieter-Jan Postma almost took the gold while Ainslie and Høgh Christensen were battling it out, but at the last buoy Postma hit the camera on the New Zealand boat and took a penalty lap, dropping him to 4th place.

Ainslie took over the position of Paul Elvstrøm as most successful Olympic sailor with one silver medal in 1996 (Laser) and fourth consecutive gold 2000 (Laser), 2004 (Finn), 2008 (Finn) and 2012 (Finn). Elvstrøm won the Firefly in 1948 and the Finn in 1952, 1956 and 1960.

Schedule[1][2]

  Practice race  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
Men's Finn 1 1 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR

Course areas and course configurations [3]

Course areas

For the Finn course areas Nothe, West, and South. 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

Results of individual races
PosHelmsmanCountry IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXMRTot Pts
Ben Ainslie  Great Britain226124313611858.046.0
Jonas Høgh-Christensen  Denmark11271284532054.046.0
Jonathan Lobert  France94426751037259.049.0
4 Pieter-Jan Postma  Netherlands51034201322121072.052.0
5 Ivan Kljaković Gašpić  Croatia33795637410865.055.0
6 Vasilij Žbogar  Slovenia86538596261472.063.0
7 Dan Slater  New Zealand7111617116158144100.083.0
8 Rafael Trujillo  Spain12121223741511346109.086.0
9 Daniel Birgmark  Sweden17514199101210812107.090.0
10 Tapio Nirkko  Finland11138531245151716109.092.0
11 Deniss Karpak  Estonia14911111117131111 99.085.0
12 Zach Railey  United States10151317281281219 116.097.0
13 Brendan Casey  AustraliaDNF 257DPI 1614101719995 131.0106.0
14 Ioannis Mitakis  Greece421108OCS 2510201979 133.0108.0
15 Greg Douglas  Canada16241613121813172012 160.0137.0
16 Piotr Kula  PolandDSQ 251617161320OCS 25111416 173.0148.0
17 Eduard Skornyakov  Russia1382215192216162222 175.0153.0
18 Alican Kaynar  Turkey18141818DNE 251411221620 176.0154.0
19 Oleksiy Borysov  UkraineRDG 21RDG 18.61919151923141718 183.6160.6
20 Jorge Zarif  Brazil15201520162414211921 185.0161.0
21 Michal Maier  Czech Republic19182110182318202315 185.0162.0
22 Filippo Baldassari  Italy20232421142117181813 188.0164.0
23 Florian Raudaschl  Austria6192324OCS 251521242423 204.0179.0
24 Gong Lei  ChinaOCS 25172022OCS 251622232124 215.0190.0

    Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
    Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); DNE – Non excludable disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; 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 Finn 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 One Person Heavyweight Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
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