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

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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
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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]

Schedule[1][3]

 ●  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
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Fri
4
Sat
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Sun
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Tue
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Wed
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Thu
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Fri
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Sat
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Sun
Men's RS:X 2 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR

Course areas and course configurations

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

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; OCSOn 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 RS:X 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. ^ "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.