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Men’s Star
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Star
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
DatesFirst race: July 29, 2012 (2012-07-29)
Last race: August 5, 2012 (2012-08-05)
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.[2] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.[3]

Race schedule[1][4]

 ●  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
RS:Xmenwomen
Laser Radialwomen
Lasermen
Finnopen
470menwomen
49eropen
Elliott 6mwomen
Starmen

Course areas and course configurations [5]

Course Areas

For the Star course areas N (Nothe), W (West) and S (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.

Further information: Sailing courses at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Weather conditions

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Final results[2][6]

Rank Country Helmsman Crew Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 Race 7 Race 8 Race 9 Race 10 Medalrace Total Total
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discard
Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts.
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Sweden Fredrik Lööf Max Salminen 10 10.0 4 4.0 4 4.0 1 1.0 5 5.0 3 3.0 4 4.0 1 1.0 2 2.0 6 6.0 1 2.0 42.0 32.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Great Britain Iain Percy Andrew Simpson 11 11.0 2 2.0 3 3.0 DSQ 2.0 1 1.0 2 2.0 1 1.0 2 2.0 4 4.0 1 1.0 8 16.0 45.0 34.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Brazil Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada 4 4.0 1 1.0 9 9.0 6 6.0 2 2.0 1 1.0 3 3.0 5 5.0 1 1.0 3 3.0 7 14.0 49.0 40.0
4  Norway Eivind Melleby Petter Morland Pedersen 7 7.0 5 5.0 2 2.0 4 4.0 16 16.0 11 11.0 8 8.0 4 4.0 7 7.0 5 5.0 5 10.0 79.0 63.0
5  New Zealand Hamish Pepper Jim Turner 15 15.0 7 7.0 1 1.0 13 13.0 6 6.0 5 5.0 9 9.0 8 8.0 8 8.0 9 9.0 2 4.0 85.0 70.0
6  Germany Robert Stanjek Frithjof Kleen 6 6.0 9 9.0 8 8.0 7 7.0 4 4.0 6 6.0 BFD 17.0 11 11.0 9 9.0 4 4.0 3 6.0 87.0 70.0
7  United States Mark Mendelblatt Brian Fatih 5 5.0 14 14.0 5 5.0 3 3.0 8 8.0 9 9.0 5 5.0 10 10.0 3 3.0 11 11.0 6 12.0 85.0 71.0
8  Poland Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Życki 9 9.0 3 3.0 12 12.0 10 10.0 3 3.0 4 4.0 2 2.0 9 9.0 13 13.0 2 2.0 9 18.0 85.0 72.0
9  France Xavier Rohart Pierre-Alexis Ponsot 1 1.0 13 13.0 10 10.0 11 11.0 12 12.0 14 14.0 11 11.0 6 6.0 6 6.0 8 8.0 4 8.0 100.0 86.0
10  Ireland Peter O'Leary David Burrows 2 2.0 6 6.0 14 14.0 5 5.0 11 11.0 12 12.0 DSQ 17.0 7 7.0 11 11.0 7 7.0 10 20.0 112.0 95.0
11  Denmark Michael Hestbæk Claus Olesen 12 12.0 11 11.0 13 13.0 14 14.0 13 13.0 7 7.0 6 6.0 3 3.0 14 14.0 10 10.0 - - 103.0 89.0
12  Canada Richard Clarke Tyler Bjorn 16 16.0 10 10.0 6 6.0 8 8.0 10 10.0 OCS 17.0 13 13.0 12 12.0 5 5.0 13 13.0 - - 110.0 93.0
13  Switzerland Flavio Marazzi Enrico de Maria 13 13.0 8 8.0 11 11.0 9 9.0 15 15.0 8 8.0 10 10.0 13 13.0 15 15.0 16 16.0 - - 118.0 102.0
14  Greece Aimilios Papathanasiou Antonis Tsotras 3 3.0 16 16.0 7 7.0 12 12.0 7 7.0 15 15.0 BFD 17.0 DSQ 17.0 OCS 17.0 12 12.0 - - 123.0 106.0
15  Portugal Afonso Domingos Frederico Melo 14 14.0 15 15.0 15 15.0 16 16.0 9 9.0 10 10.0 7 7.0 14 14.0 10 10.0 14 14.0 - - 124.0 108.0
16  Croatia Marin Lovrović, Jr. Dan Lovrović 8 8.0 12 12.0 16 16.0 15 15.0 14 14.0 13 13.0 12 12.0 15 15.0 12 12.0 15 15.0 - - 132.0 116.0

Legend:   – Qualified for next phase; DSQ – Disqualified; OCS – On the course side of the starting line;
Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result.

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the men’s Star during the 2012 Summer Olympics

Notes

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Other information

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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. ^ a b The 2012 Olympic scoring system was used.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  5. ^ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment" (PDF). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  6. ^ "Men's Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
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