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

The women'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. 27 sailors, on 27 boards, from 27 nations competed. Ten boards qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.

Women'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
Competitors27 from 27 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Marina Alabau  Spain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tuuli Petäjä  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zofia Klepacka  Poland
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Summary edit

New Zealand Yachting, the National Authority for sailing in New Zealand made the decision not to be represented in the Women's RS:X. The decision was partly based upon the fact that windsurfing would not be on the 2016 program.[2] After the 2012 Olympics the decision to discontinue windsurfing was reverted.

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
Women's RS:X 2 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR

Course areas and course configurations [4] edit

 
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.

Results edit

Results of individual races
Pos Helmsman Country I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X MR Tot Pts
  Marina Alabau   Spain 2 1 1 1 5 2 3 DPI 8 6 3 2 34.0 26.0
  Tuuli Petäjä   Finland 8 7 3 4 4 4 8 2 5 1 8 54.0 46.0
  Zofia Klepacka   Poland 5 2 12 3 1 1 9 27 4 4 6 68.0 47.0
4 Olha Maslivets   Ukraine 3 4 14 10 3 3 1 3 7 10 4 62.0 48.0
5 Moana Delle   Germany 4 5 2 5 9 5 4 9 3 2 12 60.0 51.0
6 Lee Korzits   Israel 1 3 7 2 2 11 2 1 9 11 18 67.0 56.0
7 Bryony Shaw   Great Britain 7 6 4 9 6 8 7 5 1 5 10 68.0 59.0
8 Charline Picon   France 9 11 5 7 10 6 12 10 11 6 14 101.0 89.0
9 Alessandra Sensini   Italy 12 9 11 8 11 9 6 6 10 9 16 107.0 95.0
10 Nikola Girke   Canada 6 14 10 6 8 10 13 4 19 18 20 128.0 109.0
11 Jessica Crisp   Australia 11 10 17 17 7 12 5 7 13 13   113.0 96.0
12 Hei Man Hayley Chan   Hong Kong 10 8 9 13 12 15 11 11 8 14   111.0 96.0
13 Patrícia Freitas   Brazil 13 13 16 12 13 17 16 19 2 8   129.0 110.0
14 Li Ling   China 16 15 8 14 18 7 10 13 14 23   138.0 115.0
15 Ingrid Puusta   Estonia 15 20 6 15 14 27 15 12 20 17   155.0 134.0
16 Angeliki Skarlatou   Greece 14 12 21 11 19 16 19 OCS 27 15 7   161.0 134.0
17 Sigrid Rondelez   Belgium 18 21 19 OCS 27 15 13 14 14 17 19   177.0 150.0
18 Diána Detre   Hungary 17 16 13 19 16 14 17 18 27 20   171.0 150.0
19 Jannicke Stålstrøm   Norway 21 17 24 21 17 18 21 15 12 15   181.0 157.0
20 Farrah Hall   United States 22 18 18 18 20 22 23 OCS 27 16 16   200.0 173.0
21 Yuki Sunaga   Japan 19 23 22 22 22 24 22 20 18 12   204.0 180.0
22 Irina Konstantinova-Bontemps   Bulgaria 23 22 15 20 23 20 20 16 24 21   204.0 180.0
23 Jazmín López   Argentina 20 19 20 24 21 19 25 17 25 25   215.0 190.0
24 Napalai Tansai   Thailand 24 24 23 23 25 25 18 DSQ 27 22 22   233.0 206.0
25 Tatiana Bazyuk   Russia RAF 27 25 DNF 27 16 24 23 24 22 23 24   235.0 208.0
26 Carolina Mendelblatt   Portugal DNC 27 DNC 27 DNC 27 DNC 27 DNC 27 DNC 27 DNC 27 DNC 27 DNC 27 DNC 27   270.0 243.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [5]
Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); DNC – Did not come to the starting area; DNF – Did not finish; DPI – Discretionary penalty imposed; DSQ – Disqualified; OCSOn the course side of the starting line; RAF – Retired after finishing; – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Daily standings edit

 
Graph showing the daily standings in the Women'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. ^ "2012 Olympics: Olympic place rejection signals the end of an era". Sail World. Retrieved 1 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. ^ "Women's Windsurfer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2014.