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Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's RS:X

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The men's RS:X 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. 38 sailors, on 38 boards, from 38 nations competed. Ten boards qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points. The gold medal was won by Dorian van Rijsselberghe who already after the ninth race had accumulated sufficient results to be certain to win the gold medal, as long as he competed in the races.[2]

Men's RS:X
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the RS-X
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates31 July – 7 August
Competitors38 from 38 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dorian van Rijsselberghe  Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nick Dempsey  Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Przemysław Miarczyński  Poland
← 2008
2016 →

Schedule[1][3] edit

 ●  Practice race  ●  Race on Portland  ●  Race on Nothe  ●  Race on West  ●  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 RS:X ● 2 2 2 Spare
day 		2 2 Spare
day 		MR

Course areas and course configurations edit

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

For the RS:X course areas Portland, Nothe, and West 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 and the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area. The target time for the course was 30 minutes for the races and 20 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations.[4]

Results edit

Results of individual races
Pos Helmsman Country I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X MR Tot Pts
  Dorian van Rijsselberghe   Netherlands 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 DNF 39† 2 54.0 15.0
  Nick Dempsey   Great Britain 5 7 5 1 10† 1 2 3 9 2 6 51.0 41.0
  Przemysław Miarczyński   Poland 2 2 7 4 13† 3 7 4 13 10 8 73.0 60.0
4 Toni Wilhelm   Germany 3 3 4 9 2 5 6 1 15† 13 18 79.0 64.0
5 Julien Bontemps   France 23† 14 2 5 5 4 17 5 8 6 4 93.0 70.0
6 Byron Kokkalanis   Greece 4 11 6 2 16† 15 3 11 4 9 12 93.0 77.0
7 JP Tobin   New Zealand 15 4 3 7 8 8 12 6 17† 17 16 113.0 96.0
8 Zachary Plavsic   Canada 6 12 12 6 4 17 9 7 7 29† 20 129.0 100.0
9 Ricardo Santos   Brazil 14 9 8 21 14 22† 4 10 5 18 10 135.0 113.0
10 Richard Stauffacher   Switzerland 10 27† 14 15 6 18 20 8 10 12 14 148.0 127.0
11 Mariano Reutemann   Argentina 16 15 15 13 12 19 5 20† 14 7   136.0 116.0
12 Juozas Bernotas   Lithuania 9 13 13 8 9 13 11 17 27† 27   147.0 120.0
13 Ho Tsun Andy Leung   Hong Kong 11 18 28† 12 15 10 13 9 16 21   153.0 125.0
14 João Rodrigues   Portugal 20 16 9 11 23 7 25† 22 20 3   156.0 131.0
15 Lee Tae-hoon   South Korea 8 6 21 17 25 9 21 13 31† 19   170.0 139.0
16 Iván Pastor   Spain 22 24 20 OCS 37† 19 25 8 25 2 5   189.0 150.0
17 Andreas Cariolou   Cyprus 13 26 10 27 11 30† 16 12 12 23   180.0 150.0
18 Wang Aichen   China 21 23 18 19 3 23 10 27† 22 14   180.0 153.0
19 Shahar Tzuberi   Israel 12 8 17 10 BFD 39† 12 35 34 26 1   194.0 155.0
20 Dmitry Polishchuk   Russia 17 5 19 24 27 6 15 26 DNF 39† 28   206.0 167.0
21 Luka Mratović   Croatia 24 19 26 20 22 11 14 16 18 36†   206.0 170.0
22 Robert Willis   United States 7 10 11 25 BFD 39† 28 24 33 11 30   218.0 179.0
23 Maksym Oberemko   Ukraine 36† 35 16 28 17 31 23 14 6 11   217.0 181.0
24 Sebastian Wang-Hansen   Norway 19 17 31 18 18 20 19 18 25 32†   217.0 185.0
25 Áron Gádorfalvi   Hungary 34 33 DNF 39† 22 7 21 18 24 3 25   226.0 187.0
26 Yoan Kolev   Bulgaria 29 31 DNE 39 16 20 35† 26 19 19 8   242.0 207.0
27 Mikalai Zhukavets   Belarus 26 22 23 14 26 16 27 21 DNF 39† 33   247.0 208.0
28 Makoto Tomizawa   Japan 25 25 25 29 24 26 34† 30 21 4   243.0 209.0
29 Sebastian Fleischer   Denmark 18 28 24 23 29† 29 29 15 28 26   249.0 220.0
30 Johannes Ahun   Estonia 27 20 22 DPI 31 31 14 22 28 DNF 39† 35   270.0 231.0
31 Daniel Flores   Venezuela 37† 37 29 31 30 24 32 29 23 16   289.0 252.0
32 David Mier   Mexico 32 27 30 35† 28 27 28 32 30 20   289.0 254.0
33 Ek Boonsawad   Thailand 28 32 27 26 21 32 31 23 DNF 39† 34   293.0 254.0
34 Federico Esposito   Italy 31 30 33 30 32 36† 33 35 29 15   305.0 269.0
35 Chang Hao   Chinese Taipei 33 36 35 36 33 33 37† 37 24 22   326.0 289.0
36 Karel Lavický   Czech Republic 30 29 32 34 BFD 39† 34 36 31 DNF 39 31   335.0 296.0
37 Santiago Grillo   Colombia 35 34 34 33 BFD 39† 37 30 36 DNF 39 24   341.0 302.0
38 Ahmed Habash   Egypt 38 38 36 37 34 38 38 38 DNF 39† 37   373.0 334.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [5]
Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); DNF – Did not finish; DPI – Discretionary penalty imposed; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Daily standings edit

 
Graph showing the daily standings in the Men's RS:X during the 2012 Summer Olympics

Further reading edit

  • "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 edit

  1. ^ a b "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Notice of Race" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Van Rijsselberghe zeker van goud". NOS (in Dutch). 5 August 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  3. ^ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  4. ^ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment" (PDF). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Men's Windsurfer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
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