Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 470

Men's 470
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the 470
Venue Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates 2–9 August
Competitors 54 from 27 nations
Teams 27 (boats)
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Mathew Belcher
Malcolm Page
 Australia
2nd, silver medalist(s) Luke Patience
Stuart Bithell
 Great Britain
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Lucas Calabrese
Juan de la Fuente
 Argentina

The men's 470 was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy,[1] in the 470 dinghy Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 54 sailors, on 27 boats, from 27 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 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 470 1 1 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR

Course areas and course configurations [3]

Course areas

For the 470 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
Mathew Belcher
Malcolm Page
 Australia3921113511431.022.0
Luke Patience
Stuart Bithell
 Great Britain2142341632836.030.0
Lucas Calabrese
Juan de la Fuente
 Argentina524391782256687.063.0
4 Gabrio Zandonà
Pietro Zucchetti
 Italy62618613841131298.072.0
5 Paul Snow-Hansen
Jason Saunders
 New ZealandDSQ 2835416379131214114.086.0
6 Šime Fantela
Igor Marenić
 CroatiaDSQ 2813910851512222115.087.0
7 Pierre Leboucher
Vincent Garos
 France910116102191141116109.090.0
8 Alvaro Marinho
Miguel Nunes
 Portugal12216511717310OCS 2810121.093.0
9 Matthias Schmid
Florian Reichstädter
 Austria147194162410141418131.0107.0
10 Anton Dahlberg
Sebastian Östling
 Sweden468141391424221320147.0123.0
11 Onán Barreiros
Aarón Sarmiento
 Spain7812272461013159 131.0104.0
12 Sven Coster
Kalle Coster
 Netherlands85197212492268 129.0105.0
13 Ferdinand Gerz
Patrick Follmann
 Germany131713169101114910 122.0105.0
14 Stuart McNay
Graham Biehl
 United States1522103232361874 131.0108.0
15 Gideon Kliger
Eran Sela
 Israel17111711214512OCS 2823 140.0112.0
16 Yannick Brauchli
Romuald Hausser
 Switzerland111618221412127237 142.0119.0
17 Mikhail Sheremetyev
Maxim Sheremetyev
 Russia211814135204251817 155.0130.0
18 Ryunosuke Harada
Yugo Yoshida
 Japan1912251271121171715 156.0131.0
19 Panagiotis Kampouridis
Efstathios Papadopoulos
 Greece147201518DSQ 282719820 176.0148.0
20 Wang Weidong
Deng Daokun
 China2015626271722261216 187.0160.0
21 Joonas Lindgren
Niklas Lindgren
 Finland22192217121526212118 193.0167.0
22 Park Gun-Woo
Cho Sung-Min
 South Korea2314152420252082421 194.0169.0
23 Ger Owens
Scott Flanigan
 Ireland1625242515222527165 200.0173.0
24 Deniz Çinar
Ates Çinar
 Turkey10232618222123161926 204.0178.0
25 Luke Ramsay
Mike Leigh
 Canada24202121191916202619 205.0179.0
26 Asenathi Jim
Roger Hudson
 South Africa18272720262613152524 221.0194.0
27 Benjamin Grez
Diego González
 Chile25212323251818232025 221.0196.0

    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 470 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. 1 2 "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 Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
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