Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held from 8–18 August at Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay. The sailing classes had two changes from the 2012 Summer Olympics events. There were 10 events.

Sailing
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenuesMarina da Gloria
Dates8–18 August 2016
No. of events10
Competitors381 from 68 nations

Overview

Equipment and event changes

  • The RS:X, Laser, Laser Radial, Finn, 470, and 49er all return for 2016.
  • The keelboat discipline has been dropped, meaning that both women's (Elliott 6m) and men's (the Star) are not part of the program. This is the first time the Olympics have not featured a keelboat.
  • The multihull discipline has been reintroduced using the Nacra 17 since the Tornado was dropped for London 2012.
  • A mixed gender event was introduced for the first time in Olympics Sailing. This follows to some degree the paralympic sailing competition which in 2008 introduced a two-person keelboat discipline in the Skud 18 with a requirement for at least one of the two person crew to be female. Tennis and Badminton are the other olympic sports with a mixed discipline.
  • Women's skiff discipline has been added using the same equipment as the men's skiff discipline but with a slightly reduced sailplan 49erFX
  • Kiteboarding was initially voted by the ISAF Council in May 2012 to replace windsurfing with kitesurfing and reaffirmed that vote on 9 November 2012.[1] The move was controversial as former gold medalist and IOC member Barbara Kendall said she would challenge the decision and that "it’s exciting for kiteboarding but tragic for windsurfing. Kiteboarding really is a sport that should be at the X-Games." However, on 10 November 2012, the delegates at the International Sailing Federation’s General Assembly voted to keep windsurfing at the 2016 Olympic Games, overturning the ISAF Council's decision which had already been partially implemented within ISAF Events and Rankings.[2]

Competition incidents

Following the announcement of the games, water pollution became a hot topic, and a commitment to cleaning up the water was given by the hosts. This target was not fully achieved and water quality issues were frequently in the media.[3][4][5] World Sailing examined various options including holding the racing fully outside the bay or even moving the event to Buzios.[6] However, in the end only the Belgian sailor Evi Van Acker reported that her olympics were affected.[7] The location for sailing events was a source of concern for athletes since scientists had found drug-resistant super bacteria in Guanabara Bay due to the daily dumping of hospital waste and household raw sewage into the rivers and ocean. The Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab also found the genes of super bacteria in a river that empties into Guanabara Bay.[3][4]

Just before the games the launch ramp collapsed but no one was injured.[8]

Competition format

Qualification

A total of 380 athletes competed in the sailing competitions of the Games. The qualification period began at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in September 2014. As hosts, Brazil was guaranteed one quota place in each of the ten events.[9]

Classes (equipment)

ClassTypeEventSailorsTrapezeMainsailJib/GenoaSpinnakerFirst OGOlympics so far
RS:XSailboardwomen1-+--20083
RS:XSailboardmen1-+--20083
Laser RadialDinghywomen1-+--20083
LaserDinghymen1-+--19966
FinnDinghymen1-+195217
470Dinghywomen21+++19888
470Dinghymen21+++197611
49erSkiffmen22+++20005
49erFXSkiffwomen22+++20161
Nacra 17Multihullmixed22+++20161

Scoring

Racing at the 2016 Olympics was fleet racing where all competitors started and sailed the course together. They were scored according to the low-point system, where first place is scored 1, second place is scored 2, etc. There was a series of preliminary races followed by the final Medal Race. The RS:X, 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 classes had 12 preliminary races, other classes have 10.

At the end of the preliminary races, the top ten boats in each class (i.e. those with the lowest total scores) advanced to the Medal Race. Each boat might exclude one race from their total. The Medal Race could not be excluded from the series score and counts double. The boat with the lowest overall total after all races was the winner.[10] Any ties in the final rankings were broken in favour of the competitor/crew finishing higher in the Medal Race.[11]

Competition schedule

The competition started on 8 August and finished on 18 August.[12]

Preliminary race Medal race
Date →
Event ↓
Mon 8Tue 9Wed 10Thu 11Fri 12Sat 13Sun 14Mon 15Tue 16Wed 17Thu 18
Men's RS:X●●●●●●●●●●●●
Women's RS:X●●●●●●●●●●●●
Men's Laser●●●●●●●●●●
Women's Laser Radial●●●●●●●●●●
Men's Finn●●●●●●●●●●
Mixed Nacra 17●●●●●●●●●●●●
Men's 470●●●●●●●●●●
Women's 470●●●●●●●●●●
Men's 49er●●●●●●●●●●●●
Women's 49erFX●●●●●●●●●●●●

Participation

Participating nations

Competitors

Medal summary

Medal table

Key

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain2103
2 Netherlands2002
3 Australia1304
4 New Zealand1214
5 Croatia1102
6 France1023
7 Argentina1001
 Brazil*1001
9 China0101
 Ireland0101
 Slovenia0101
12 Denmark0022
13 Austria0011
 Germany0011
 Greece0011
 Russia0011
 United States0011
Totals (17 nations)10101030

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
RS:X
Dorian van Rijsselberghe
 Netherlands
Nick Dempsey
 Great Britain
Pierre Le Coq
 France
Laser
Tom Burton
 Australia
Tonči Stipanović
 Croatia
Sam Meech
 New Zealand
Finn
Giles Scott
 Great Britain
Vasilij Žbogar
 Slovenia
Caleb Paine
 United States
470
 Croatia (CRO)
Šime Fantela
Igor Marenić
 Australia (AUS)
Mathew Belcher
William Ryan
 Greece (GRE)
Panagiotis Mantis
Pavlos Kagialis
49er
 New Zealand (NZL)
Peter Burling
Blair Tuke
 Australia (AUS)
Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen
 Germany (GER)
Erik Heil
Thomas Plößel

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
RS:X
Charline Picon
 France
Chen Peina
 China
Stefania Elfutina
 Russia
Laser Radial
Marit Bouwmeester
 Netherlands
Annalise Murphy
 Ireland
Anne-Marie Rindom
 Denmark
470
 Great Britain (GBR)
Hannah Mills
Saskia Clark
 New Zealand (NZL)
Jo Aleh
Polly Powrie
 France (FRA)
Camille Lecointre
Hélène Defrance
49erFX
 Brazil (BRA)
Martine Grael
Kahena Kunze
 New Zealand (NZL)
Alex Maloney
Molly Meech
 Denmark (DEN)
Jena Mai Hansen
Katja Salskov-Iversen

Mixed events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Nacra 17
 Argentina (ARG)
Santiago Lange
Cecilia Carranza Saroli
 Australia (AUS)
Jason Waterhouse
Lisa Darmanin
 Austria (AUT)
Thomas Zajac
Tanja Frank

References

  1. 'Kiteboarding to replace windsurfing at 2016 Rio Olympics' Article, 7 May 2012 at bbc.co.uk
  2. "RYA statement on ISAF 2016 events vote". RYA. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  3. "Exclusive: Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches". Reuters. 11 June 2016. The findings from two unpublished academic studies seen by Reuters concern Rio's most popular spots for tourists and greatly increase the areas known to be infected by the microbes normally found only in hospitals.
  4. "Scientists reportedly find super bacteria in several Rio Olympic venues". Fox News. 11 June 2016. A 2014 study had already shown the presence of super bacteria off one of the beaches in Guanabara Bay, where sailing and wind-surfing events are going to be held. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already declared super bacteria an urgent public health crisis.
  5. "'Rio 2016 Olympics: Pollution threat muddies waters as Games draw near'". cnn.com. 2 August 2016.
  6. "Ex-World Sailing chief 'voted out for trying to oust polluted Olympic venue'". theguardian.com. 26 January 2016.
  7. "'Evi Van Acker: how a dream may become a nightmare'". deredactie.be. 11 August 2016.
  8. 'Rio 2016: Olympic sailing ramp collapses...' Article, 1 August 2016, at independent.co.uk
  9. Qualification summary February 2014.
  10. Competition format for Rio Olympics, 31 March 2016, at nbcolympics.com
  11. Article about scoring at sailing.org/olympics/rio2016
  12. "Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition" at sailing.org/2016-olympic-games
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