Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser

The men's Laser 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. 49 sailors, on 49 boats, from 49 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race. For the medal race, the top ten boats qualified. Each position scored double points. All medal races were sailed on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth.

Men's Laser
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Laser
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates30 July – 6 August
Competitors49 from 49 nations
Medalists
Tom Slingsby  Australia
Pavlos Kontides  Cyprus
Rasmus Myrgren  Sweden

Schedule[1][2]

  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
Men's Laser 2 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 2 Spare
day
MR

Course areas and course configurations [3]

Course areas

For the Laser 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

Results of individual races
PosHelmsmanCountry IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXMRTot Pts
Tom Slingsby  Australia212692141111857.043.0
Pavlos Kontides  Cyprus941124127742071.059.0
Rasmus Myrgren  Sweden11545251049102DPI 1297.072.0
4 Tonči Stipanović  Croatia56204318136151697.077.0
5 Andrew Murdoch  New Zealand1281718171315338105.087.0
6 Simon Grotelüschen  Germany14121937819413102111.092.0
7 Paul Goodison  Great Britain1023162491712986116.093.0
8 Alejandro Foglia  Uruguay153282730693564136.0106.0
9 Juan Ignacio Maegli  Guatemala110713520710272114129.0108.0
10 Jean Baptiste Bernaz  France321691911218203410153.0119.0
11 Julio Alsogaray  Argentina20751112231BFD 50267 162.0112.0
12 Javier Hernández  Spain34171315261361729 152.0118.0
13 Bruno Fontes  Brazil172121910272321165 152.0125.0
14 Rutger van Schaardenburg  Netherlands331114711142651923 163.0130.0
15 Colin Cheng  Singapore425262027341021714 179.0145.0
16 Kristian Ruth  Norway32141017155DNF 5024820 195.0145.0
17 Kacper Ziemiński  Poland2213824181528112212 173.0145.0
18 Karl-Martin Rammo  Estonia71832181230311839 187.0148.0
19 Thorbjorn Scherup  Denmark361624823165232418 193.0157.0
20 Andreas Geritzer  Austria620221662822223216 190.0158.0
21 Zsombor Berecz  Hungary303411123332114431 193.0159.0
22 Gustavo Lima  Portugal2124273513183203413 208.0173.0
23 David Wright  Canada181593014244162938 225.0184.0
24 Ha Jee-min  South Korea89151435DNF 50DSQ 50281217 238.0188.0
25 Cy Thompson  Virgin Islands24223223172116263622 239.0203.0
26 Evangelos Cheimonas  GreeceDPI 13192141DSQ 503315301519 256.0206.0
27 Igor Lisovenko  Russia28403622241925162833 271.0231.0
28 Viktor Teplý  Czech Republic29273134322511343711 271.0234.0
29 Rob Crane  United States3542302816261883344 280.0236.0
30 Milivoj Dukić  Montenegro26333532223024382324 287.0249.0
31 Karlo Hmeljak  Slovenia233018333431DNF 50252732 303.0253.0
32 Matias del Solar  Chile163225432017BFD 50294429 305.0255.0
33 Mattias Lindfors  Finland25282329362220423940 305.0263.0
34 Wannes van Laer  Belgium19262926293831BFD 504236 326.0276.0
35 Michele Regolo  Italy31354610213243354330 326.0280.0
36 James Espey  Ireland38443936464227272535 359.0313.0
37 Andrew Lewis  Trinidad and Tobago46433840284734461426 362.0315.0
38 Ricardo Montemayor  Mexico39414446452929401142 366.0320.0
39 Mustafa Çakır  Turkey432941DNF 5037354419DNF 5027 375.0325.0
40 Andrey Quintero  Colombia4031372539413639DNF 5037 375.0325.0
41 José Ruiz  Venezuela45463437413633443528 379.0333.0
42 Rokas Milevičius  Lithuania37373338433740433146 385.0339.0
43 Shi Jian  China27394345424632413041 386.0340.0
44 Valeriy Kudryashov  Ukraine483842DPI 30384035363843 389.0341.0
45 Youssef Akrout  Tunisia41364044313939334548 396.0348.0
46 Damien Desprat  Monaco44454539404342324125 396.0351.0
47 Khairulnizam Afendy  Malaysia42474847474437454045 442.0394.0
48 Keerati Bualong  Thailand474847424445DSQ 50374747 454.0404.0
49 Ilya Ignatiev  Kyrgyzstan49494948484838474649 471.0422.0

    Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
    Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; DPI – Discretionary penalty imposed; DSQ – Disqualified; – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

    Daily standings

    Graph showing the daily standings in the Men's Laser 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 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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