Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star

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Men’s Star
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Star (keelboat).svg
Line drawing of the Star
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates29 July – 5 August
Competitors32 from 16 nations
Teams16 (boats)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Fredrik Lööf
Max Salminen		  Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Iain Percy
Andrew Simpson		  Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Robert Scheidt
Bruno Prada		  Brazil
← 2008

The men's Star 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. 32 sailors, on 16 boats, from 16 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 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 Star ● 2 2 2 Spare
day 		2 2 Spare
day 		MR
Stars during the 2012 Summer Olympics
Sailing at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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Course areas and course configurations [3][]

Main article: Sailing courses at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Course areas

For the Star course areas Nothe, West, and South were used. 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 – 75 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 Fredrik Lööf
Max Salminen 		 Sweden 10† 4 4 1 5 3 4 1 2 6 2 42.0 32.0
Silver medal icon.svg Iain Percy
Andrew Simpson 		 Great Britain 11† 2 3 2 1 2 1 2 4 1 16 45.0 34.0
Bronze medal icon.svg Robert Scheidt
Bruno Prada 		 Brazil 4 1 9† 6 2 1 3 5 1 3 14 49.0 40.0
4 Eivind Melleby
Petter Morland Pedersen 		 Norway 7 5 2 4 16† 11 8 4 7 5 10 79.0 63.0
5 Hamish Pepper
Jim Turner 		 New Zealand 15† 7 1 13 6 5 9 8 8 9 4 85.0 70.0
6 Robert Stanjek
Frithjof Kleen 		 Germany 6 9 8 7 4 6 BFD 17† 11 9 4 6 87.0 70.0
7 Mark Mendelblatt
Brian Fatih 		 United States 5 14† 5 3 8 9 5 10 3 11 12 85.0 71.0
8 Mateusz Kusznierewicz
Dominik Życki 		 Poland 9 3 12 10 3 4 2 9 13† 2 18 85.0 72.0
9 Xavier Rohart
Pierre-Alexis Ponsot 		 France 1 13 10 11 12 14† 11 6 6 8 8 100.0 86.0
10 Peter O'Leary
David Burrows 		 Ireland 2 6 14 5 11 12 DSQ 17† 7 11 7 20 112.0 95.0
11 Michael Hestbæk
Claus Olesen 		 Denmark 12 11 13 14† 13 7 6 3 14 10   103.0 89.0
12 Richard Clarke
Tyler Bjorn 		 Canada 16 10 6 8 10 OCS 17† 13 12 5 13   110.0 93.0
13 Flavio Marazzi
Enrico de Maria 		 Switzerland 13 8 11 9 15 8 10 13 15 16†   118.0 102.0
14 Aimilios Papathanasiou
Antonis Tsotras 		 Greece 3 16 7 12 7 15 BFD 17† DSQ 17 OCS 17 12   123.0 106.0
15 Afonso Domingos
Frederico Melo 		 Portugal 14 15 15 16† 9 10 7 14 10 14   124.0 108.0
16 Marin Lovrović, Jr.
Dan Lovrović 		 Croatia 8 12 16† 15 14 13 12 15 12 15   132.0 116.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); DSQ – Disqualified; OCS – On 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 Star 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 Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
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