Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 470

The women’s 470 was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, in the 470 dinghy. Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 40 sailors, on 20 boats, from 20 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.

Women’s 470 at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the 470
Venue	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates	3–10 August
Competitors	40 from 20 nations
Teams	20 (boats)
Medalists
Jo Aleh Polly Powrie  New Zealand Hannah Mills Saskia Clark  Great Britain Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout  Netherlands

Schedule

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Practice race

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Race on Portland

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Race on Nothe

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Race on West

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Race on South

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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
Women’s 470								●	2	2	1	1	Spare day	2	2	Spare day	MR

Course areas and course configurations

Main article: Sailing courses at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Course areas

  Portland (P)

  Nothe (N)

  West (W)

  South (S)

  East (E)

For the 470 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
	Jo Aleh Polly Powrie	New Zealand	2	6	2	5	10	4	1	1	2	18†	2	53.0	35.0
	Hannah Mills Saskia Clark	Great Britain	6	1	4	6	1	6	5	2	8†	2	18	59.0	51.0
	Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout	Netherlands	1	8	6	4	2	18	4	3	20†	6	12	84.0	64.0
4	Camille Lecointre Mathilde Géron	France	10	17†	1	8	12	3	7	6	3	5	10	82.0	65.0
5	Giulia Conti Giovanna Micol	Italy	8	10	18†	2	3	1	16	16	6	7	4	91.0	73.0
6	Fernanda Oliveira Ana Barbachan	Brazil	11	5	14†	1	6	10	10	9	5	4	14	89.0	75.0
7	Elise Rechichi Belinda Stowell	Australia	14	7	3	DSQ 21†	9	7	9	13	4	1	16	104.0	83.0
8	Kathrin Kadelbach Friederike Belcher	Germany	19†	2	7	13	15	5	6	5	14	11	6	103.0	84.0
9	Amanda Clark Sarah Lihan	United States	7	3	5	7	19	20†	3	8	17	9	20	118.0	98.0
10	Tara Pacheco Berta Betanzos	Spain	15	14	8	16†	13	8	11	4	7	13	8	117.0	101.0
11	Wang Xiaoli Huang Xufeng	China	18	18	9	12	8	19†	2	17	1	12		116.0	97.0
12	Agnieszka Skrzypulec Jolanta Ogar	Poland	13	13	20†	17	7	2	18	7	11	10		118.0	98.0
13	María Fernanda Sesto Consuelo Monsegur	Argentina	16	19†	19	3	5	12	14	11	15	3		117.0	98.0
14	Ai Kondo Wakako Tabata	Japan	9	4	17	19	11	9	13	DSQ 21†	13	8		124.0	103.0
15	Gil Cohen Vered Bouskila	Israel	3	DSQ 21†	10	18	4	14	12	15	12	17		126.0	105.0
16	Henriette Koch Lene Sommer	Denmark	5	12	16†	10	14	16	15	10	9	15		122.0	106.0
17	Enia Ninčević Romana Župan	Croatia	4	16	13	11	20†	11	8	19	19	14		135.0	115.0
18	Tina Mrak Teja Černe	Slovenia	12	9	12	14	17†	17	17	14	16	16		144.0	127.0
19	Lisa Ericson Astrid Gabrielsson	Sweden	17	11	11	9	16	15	19	12	18	20†		148.0	128.0
20	Lara Vadlau Eva-Maria Schimak	Austria	20†	15	15	15	18	13	20	18	10	19		163.0	143.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source:
Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); DSQ – Disqualified; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Women’s 470 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.