Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser

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Men's Laser
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Laser dinghy.svg
Line drawing of the Laser
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates30 July – 6 August
Competitors49 from 49 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tom Slingsby  Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pavlos Kontides  Cyprus
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Rasmus Myrgren  Sweden
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The men's Laser 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. 49 sailors, on 49 boats, from 49 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race. For the medal race, the top ten boats qualified. Each position scored double points. All medal races were sailed on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth.

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 Laser 2 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 2 Spare
day
MR

Course areas and course configurations [3][]

Course areas

For the Laser 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
Gold medal icon.svg Tom Slingsby  Australia 2 1 2 6 9 2 14 1 1 1 18 57.0 43.0
Silver medal icon.svg Pavlos Kontides  Cyprus 9 4 1 1 2 4 12 7 7 4 20 71.0 59.0
Bronze medal icon.svg Rasmus Myrgren  Sweden 11 5 4 5 25 10 4 9 10 2 DPI 12 97.0 72.0
4 Tonči Stipanović  Croatia 5 6 20 4 3 1 8 13 6 15 16 97.0 77.0
5 Andrew Murdoch  New Zealand 12 8 17 18 1 7 13 15 3 3 8 105.0 87.0
6 Simon Grotelüschen  Germany 14 12 19 3 7 8 19 4 13 10 2 111.0 92.0
7 Paul Goodison  Great Britain 10 23 16 2 4 9 17 12 9 8 6 116.0 93.0
8 Alejandro Foglia  Uruguay 15 3 28 27 30 6 9 3 5 6 4 136.0 106.0
9 Juan Ignacio Maegli  Guatemala 1 10 7 13 5 20 7 10 27 21 14 129.0 108.0
10 Jean-Baptiste Bernaz  France 3 21 6 9 19 11 2 18 20 34 10 153.0 119.0
11 Julio Alsogaray  Argentina 20 7 5 11 12 23 1 BFD 50 26 7   162.0 112.0
12 Javier Hernández  Spain 34 17 13 15 26 13 6 17 2 9   152.0 118.0
13 Bruno Fontes  Brazil 17 2 12 19 10 27 23 21 16 5   152.0 125.0
14 Rutger van Schaardenburg  Netherlands 33 11 14 7 11 14 26 5 19 23   163.0 130.0
15 Colin Cheng  Singapore 4 25 26 20 27 34 10 2 17 14   179.0 145.0
16 Kristian Ruth  Norway 32 14 10 17 15 5 DNF 50 24 8 20   195.0 145.0
17 Kacper Ziemiński  Poland 22 13 8 24 18 15 28 11 22 12   173.0 145.0
18 Karl-Martin Rammo  Estonia 7 18 3 21 8 12 30 31 18 39   187.0 148.0
19 Thorbjorn Scherup  Denmark 36 16 24 8 23 16 5 23 24 18   193.0 157.0
20 Andreas Geritzer  Austria 6 20 22 16 6 28 22 22 32 16   190.0 158.0
21 Zsombor Berecz  Hungary 30 34 11 12 33 3 21 14 4 31   193.0 159.0
22 Gustavo Lima  Portugal 21 24 27 35 13 18 3 20 34 13   208.0 173.0
23 David Wright  Canada 18 15 9 30 14 24 41 6 29 38   225.0 184.0
24 Ha Jee-min  South Korea 8 9 15 14 35 DNF 50 DSQ 50 28 12 17   238.0 188.0
25 Cy Thompson  Virgin Islands 24 22 32 23 17 21 16 26 36 22   239.0 203.0
26 Evangelos Cheimonas  Greece DPI 13 19 21 41 DSQ 50 33 15 30 15 19   256.0 206.0
27 Igor Lisovenko  Russia 28 40 36 22 24 19 25 16 28 33   271.0 231.0
28 Viktor Teplý  Czech Republic 29 27 31 34 32 25 11 34 37 11   271.0 234.0
29 Rob Crane  United States 35 42 30 28 16 26 18 8 33 44   280.0 236.0
30 Milivoj Dukić  Montenegro 26 33 35 32 22 30 24 38 23 24   287.0 249.0
31 Karlo Hmeljak  Slovenia 23 30 18 33 34 31 DNF 50 25 27 32   303.0 253.0
32 Matias del Solar  Chile 16 32 25 43 20 17 BFD 50 29 44 29   305.0 255.0
33 Mattias Lindfors  Finland 25 28 23 29 36 22 20 42 39 40   305.0 263.0
34 Wannes Van Laer  Belgium 19 26 29 26 29 38 31 BFD 50 42 36   326.0 276.0
35 Michele Regolo  Italy 31 35 46 10 21 32 43 35 43 30   326.0 280.0
36 James Espey  Ireland 38 44 39 36 46 42 27 27 25 35   359.0 313.0
37 Andrew Lewis  Trinidad and Tobago 46 43 38 40 28 47 34 46 14 26   362.0 315.0
38 Ricardo Montemayor  Mexico 39 41 44 46 45 29 29 40 11 42   366.0 320.0
39 Mustafa Çakır  Turkey 43 29 41 DNF 50 37 35 44 19 DNF 50 27   375.0 325.0
40 Andrey Quintero  Colombia 40 31 37 25 39 41 36 39 DNF 50 37   375.0 325.0
41 José Ruiz  Venezuela 45 46 34 37 41 36 33 44 35 28   379.0 333.0
42 Rokas Milevičius  Lithuania 37 37 33 38 43 37 40 43 31 46   385.0 339.0
43 Shi Jian  China 27 39 43 45 42 46 32 41 30 41   386.0 340.0
44 Valeriy Kudryashov  Ukraine 48 38 42 DPI 30 38 40 35 36 38 43   389.0 341.0
45 Youssef Akrout  Tunisia 41 36 40 44 31 39 39 33 45 48   396.0 348.0
46 Damien Desprat  Monaco 44 45 45 39 40 43 42 32 41 25   396.0 351.0
47 Khairulnizam Afendy  Malaysia 42 47 48 47 47 44 37 45 40 45   442.0 394.0
48 Keerati Bualong  Thailand 47 48 47 42 44 45 DSQ 50 37 47 47   454.0 404.0
49 Ilya Ignatiev  Kyrgyzstan 49 49 49 48 48 48 38 47 46 49   471.0 422.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; DPI – Discretionary penalty imposed; DSQ – Disqualified; – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Daily standings[]

Graph showing the daily standings in the Men's Laser 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 One Person Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
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