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Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Field	Value
event	Sailing
games	2012 Summer
image	Sailing, London 2012.png
image_size	150px
venues	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
dates	29 July – 11 August 2012
competitors	380
num_events	10
nations	63
prev	2008
next	2016

Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad (1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece). With the exception of 1904 and possibly the cancelled 1916 Summer Olympics, sailing has always been included on the Olympic schedule. Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held 29 July – 11 August 2012 at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy in Weymouth. The 2012 sailing program consisted of a total of ten events (eight classes). Eleven fleet races were scheduled off the coast at Weymouth Bay for each event, except for the 49er and the Elliott 6m classes. For the 49er class, a total of 16 races were scheduled. Of the 11 (16) races, 10 (15) were scheduled as opening races and the last one as medal race. For the Elliott 6m a series of match races was scheduled. The sailing was done on different types of courses.

Venue

According to the IOC statutes the contests in all sport disciplines must be held either in, or as close as possible to the city which the IOC has chosen. Among others, an exception is made for the Olympic sailing events, which customarily must be staged on the open sea. On account of this principle, Weymouth and Portland was selected for the honor to carry out the Olympic yachting regattas. For that purpose the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy was reconstructed.

Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA)

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The land based part of the WPNSA includes:

Administrative and game management center
Media center
The "Hangar" for measurement, social events and logistic center.
(Inter)National sailing center
Craning, mooring and slipway facilities

Course areas

A total of five race areas were set on Weymouth Bay of the coast of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The exclusion area was limited by a fictive line between Portland and the mainland. All racing took place within this exclusion zone. The five course areas were positioned according to the table below the map but could be moved anywhere within the exclusion zone.

Competition

Qualification

Fifty-seven nations qualified for the sailing events and a further six were allocated places not taken up by qualified nations to give a total of 63 nations participating. The only countries to have qualified in all events were France, New Zealand, the US and the hosts, Great Britain; New Zealand declined to take up their place in the Women's RS-X.

Overview

Continents	Countries	Classes	Boats	Male	Female
6	63	10	273	237	143

Continents

Africa
Asia
Oceania
Europe
North America
South America

Countries

Blue: Water

Gray: Never participated in OG

Dark Gray: Participated in earlier OG

Green: Country participated for the first time

Dark Blue: Country participated also on previous games

Red: Country boycotted the sailing event of the OG]]

URU	USA	VEN

Classes (equipment)

Class	Type	Event	Sailors	Trapeze	Mainsail	Jib/Genoa	Spinnaker	First OG	Olympics so far
RS:X	Sailboard	[[File:Venus symbol.svg	13px]]	1	-	+	-	-	2008	2
RS:X	Sailboard	[[File:Mars symbol.svg	13px]]	1	-	+	-	-	2008	2
Laser Radial	Dinghy	[[File:Venus symbol.svg	13px]]	1	-	+	-	-	2008	2
Laser	Dinghy	[[File:Mars symbol.svg	13px]]	1	-	+	-	-	1996	5
Finn	Dinghy	[[File:Cercle noir 100%.svg	9px]]	1	0	+	–	–	1952	16
470	Dinghy	[[File:Venus symbol.svg	13px]]	2	1	+	+	+	1988	7
470	Dinghy	[[File:Mars symbol.svg	13px]]	2	1	+	+	+	1976	10
49er	Dinghy	[[File:Cercle noir 100%.svg	9px]]	2	2	+	+	+	2000	4
Elliott 6m	Keelboat	[[File:Venus symbol.svg	13px]]	3	0	+	+	+	2012	1
Star	Keelboat	[[File:Mars symbol.svg	13px]]	2	0	+	+	–	1932	18

|File:Olympic Classes 2012.svg|

Race schedule

●	Opening ceremony	●	Practice race	●	Race	●	Medal race	●	Closing ceremony

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	Total gold medals	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Women's
Men's	●
	●
● ●	●
● ●	●
●
●	●
Women's
Men's				R
2 2	2 RR
2 2 2 2	2 2 RR
2 2 2 2 2	2 2 RR
2 2 2	2 RR
2 2 2 2 2	2 2
2 2 2 3 2	2 2 2 RR
2 2 2	2 2
2 2
2 2	2 KO
2	2 KO
KO
KO
Women's
Men's
MR MR	MR
MR	MR
MR
MR
MR	MR
FP
Ceremonies		●							●
Legend:

Medal summary

Source:

Men's events

49er
AUS
Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen	NZL
Peter Burling
Blair Tuke	DEN
Allan Nørregaard
Peter Lang

Women's events

Elliott 6m
ESP
Támara Echegoyen
Ángela Pumariega
Sofía Toro	AUS
Olivia Price
Nina Curtis
Lucinda Whitty	FIN
Silja Lehtinen
Silja Kanerva
Mikaela Wulff

Medal table

References

Wikipedia Source

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