Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star

Men’s Star
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Star
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates29 July – 5 August
Competitors32 from 16 nations
Teams16 (boats)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Fredrik Lööf
Max Salminen
 Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Iain Percy
Andrew Simpson
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Robert Scheidt
Bruno Prada
 Brazil
← 2008

The men's Star was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.[1] Eleven races (the last one being a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 32 sailors, on 16 boats, from 16 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.

Schedule[1][2]

 ●  Practice race  ●  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 Star 2 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR
Stars during the 2012 Summer Olympics

Course areas and course configurations [3]

Course areas

For the Star course areas Nothe, West, and South were used. 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 – 75 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
Pos Helmsman Country I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X MR Tot Pts
Fredrik Lööf
Max Salminen
 Sweden 10 4 4 1 5 3 4 1 2 6 2 42.0 32.0
Iain Percy
Andrew Simpson
 Great Britain 11 2 3 2 1 2 1 2 4 1 16 45.0 34.0
Robert Scheidt
Bruno Prada
 Brazil 4 1 9 6 2 1 3 5 1 3 14 49.0 40.0
4 Eivind Melleby
Petter Mørland Pedersen
 Norway 7 5 2 4 16 11 8 4 7 5 10 79.0 63.0
5 Hamish Pepper
Jim Turner
 New Zealand 15 7 1 13 6 5 9 8 8 9 4 85.0 70.0
6 Robert Stanjek
Frithjof Kleen
 Germany 6 9 8 7 4 6 BFD 17 11 9 4 6 87.0 70.0
7 Mark Mendelblatt
Brian Fatih
 United States 5 14 5 3 8 9 5 10 3 11 12 85.0 71.0
8 Mateusz Kusznierewicz
Dominik Życki
 Poland 9 3 12 10 3 4 2 9 13 2 18 85.0 72.0
9 Xavier Rohart
Pierre-Alexis Ponsot
 France 1 13 10 11 12 14 11 6 6 8 8 100.0 86.0
10 Peter O'Leary
David Burrows
 Ireland 2 6 14 5 11 12 DSQ 17 7 11 7 20 112.0 95.0
11 Michael Hestbæk
Claus Olesen
 Denmark 12 11 13 14 13 7 6 3 14 10   103.0 89.0
12 Richard Clarke
Tyler Bjorn
 Canada 16 10 6 8 10 OCS 17 13 12 5 13   110.0 93.0
13 Flavio Marazzi
Enrico De Maria
 Switzerland 13 8 11 9 15 8 10 13 15 16   118.0 102.0
14 Aimilios Papathanasiou
Antonis Tsotras
 Greece 3 16 7 12 7 15 BFD 17 DSQ 17 OCS 17 12   123.0 106.0
15 Afonso Domingos
Frederico Melo
 Portugal 14 15 15 16 9 10 7 14 10 14   124.0 108.0
16 Marin Lovrović Jr.
Dan Lovrović
 Croatia 8 12 16 15 14 13 12 15 12 15   132.0 116.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); 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 Star 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". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.

References

  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 Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.