Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial

Women's Laser Radial at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Laser Radial
Venue	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates	30 July – 6 August
Competitors	41 from 41 nations
Medalists
Xu Lijia  China Marit Bouwmeester  Netherlands Evi Van Acker  Belgium

Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
RS:X	men	women
Laser Radial		women
Laser	men
Finn	open
470	men	women
49er	open
Elliott 6m		women
Star	men

The women's Laser Radial 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. 41 sailors, on 41 boats, from 41 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]

Course areas and course configurations ^[3]

Course areas

Portland (P)   Nothe (N)   West (W)

South (S)   East (E)

For the Laser Radial 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

Pos	Helmsman	Country	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X	MR	Tot	Pts
	Xu Lijia	China	5	8	7001110000000000000♠11†	3	5	4	1	4	1	2	2	46.0	35.0
	Marit Bouwmeester	Netherlands	7000600000000000000♠6†	3	4	5	6	1	4	3	6	1	4	43.0	37.0
	Evi Van Acker	Belgium	3	2	3	7000800000000000000♠8†	1	5	8	1	8	3	6	48.0	40.0
4	Annalise Murphy	Ireland	1	1	1	1	8	7001190000000000000♠19†	2	10	3	7	10	63.0	44.0
5	Alison Young	Great Britain	7	10	2	2	2	11	6	8	BFD 42†	4	8	102.0	60.0
6	Gintare Scheidt	Lithuania	2	13	9	10	3	7001140000000000000♠14†	11	7	7	6	14	96.0	82.0
7	Sari Multala	Finland	4	6	15	4	19	7001270000000000000♠27†	3	2	16	5	20	115.0	94.0
8	Paige Railey	United States	8	5	12	17	4	9	7001270000000000000♠27†	20	9	8	12	125.0	104.0
9	Veronika Fenclová	Czech Republic	7001230000000000000♠23†	4	7	6	21	2	17	6	12	12	18	128.0	105.0
10	Tania Elias Calles	Mexico	12	9	6	7001190000000000000♠19†	13	33	13	5	13	10	16	149.0	116.0
11	Alicia Cebrián Martínez de Lagos	Spain	15	11	14	9	7001240000000000000♠24†	23	5	9	2	13		125.0	101.0
12	Krystal Weir	Australia	18	18	10	23	7	7001350000000000000♠35†	7	12	4	22		156.0	121.0
13	Anne-Marie Rindom	Denmark	17	19	8	22	12	7	7001270000000000000♠27†	23	11	11		157.0	130.0
14	Nathalie Brugger	Switzerland	13	25	18	14	15	10	BFD 42†	14	10	16		177.0	135.0
15	Tatiana Drozdovskaya	Belarus	10	7	23	16	16	13	19	16	BFD 42†	18		180.0	138.0
16	Sarah Steyaert	France	21	14	19	12	11	7001260000000000000♠26†	10	19	22	15		169.0	143.0
17	Tina Mihelić	Croatia	14	12	22	7001250000000000000♠25†	17	25	14	13	14	17		173.0	148.0
18	Josefin Olsson	Sweden	25	17	5	18	14	24	7001290000000000000♠29†	29	5	14		180.0	151.0
19	Francesca Clapcich	Italy	20	16	24	7	9	7001270000000000000♠27†	18	25	21	19		186.0	159.0
20	Sara Winther	New Zealand	31	23	21	15	35	31	9	11	BFD 42†	9		227.0	185.0
21	Cecilia Carranza	Argentina	9	28	13	28	10	30	12	7001350000000000000♠35†	20	35		220.0	185.0
22	Anna Weinzieher	Poland	16	7001260000000000000♠26†	25	21	20	16	22	24	15	27		212.0	185.0
23	Marthe Enger Eide	Norway	30	24	7001320000000000000♠32†	11	23	15	23	21	17	30		226.0	194.0
24	Yin Elizabeth	Singapore	7001340000000000000♠34†	27	29	13	28	12	26	18	19	25		231.0	197.0
25	Adriana Kostiw	Brazil	11	15	27	31	25	17	BFD 42†	26	30	34		258.0	216.0
26	Franziska Goltz	Germany	26	20	26	24	18	DNF 42†	28	15	DNE 42	21		262.0	220.0
27	Danielle Dube	Canada	22	21	20	7001330000000000000♠33†	31	32	25	17	24	28		253.0	220.0
28	Sara Carmo	Portugal	32	22	17	20	27	20	32	7001380000000000000♠38†	28	24		260.0	222.0
29	Nazli Çagla Dönertas	Turkey	19	35	16	30	22	38	20	32	BFD 42†	20		274.0	232.0
30	Nufar Edelman	Israel	33	33	33	7001340000000000000♠34†	29	3	34	28	18	26		271.0	237.0
31	Manami Doi	Japan	29	32	31	27	26	7001360000000000000♠36†	30	22	27	29		289.0	253.0
32	Andrea Aldana	Guatemala	24	36	34	7001390000000000000♠39†	38	8	24	33	29	31		296.0	257.0
33	Anna Agrafioti	Greece	28	29	30	32	7001340000000000000♠34†	34	15	34	23	32		291.0	257.0
34	Svetlana Shnitko	Russia	37	31	35	35	37	18	31	30	25	7001380000000000000♠38†		317.0	279.0
35	Anna Pohlak	Estonia	27	39	7001410000000000000♠41†	37	36	6	36	36	31	36		325.0	284.0
36	Philipine van Aanholt	Independent Olympic Athletes	36	38	38	29	33	37	16	27	BFD 42†	37		333.0	291.0
37	Beth Lygoe	Saint Lucia	38	37	28	38	7001390000000000000♠39†	29	37	37	26	23		332.0	293.0
38	Andrea Foglia	Uruguay	39	34	37	26	32	7001400000000000000♠40†	38	31	33	33		343.0	303.0
39	Paloma Schmidt	Peru	35	30	36	36	30	39	33	7001410000000000000♠41†	32	39		351.0	310.0
40	Mayumi Roller	Virgin Islands	40	7001410000000000000♠41†	40	41	41	22	35	40	35	41		376.0	335.0
41	Helema Williams	Cook Islands	7001410000000000000♠41†	40	39	40	40	28	39	39	34	40		380.0	339.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: ^[4]
Legend:      – Qualified for medal race(s); BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNE – Non excludable disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Women's Laser Radial 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