Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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See also: Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Sailing
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Venues Marina da Gloria
Dates 8–18 August 2016
No. of events 10
Competitors 381 from 68 nations
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Sailing at the
2016 Summer Olympics 
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List of sailors
RS:X men women
Laser Radial women
Laser men
Finn men
470 men women
49erFX women
49er men
Nacra 17 open

Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held from 8–18 August at Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay. The sailing classes had two changes from the 2012 Summer Olympics events. There were 10 events.

News

Equipment and event changes

  • The RS:X, Laser, Laser Radial, Finn, 470, and 49er all return for 2016.
  • The keelboat discipline has been dropped, meaning that both women's (Elliott 6m) and men's (the Star) are not part of the program. This is the first time the Olympics have not featured a keelboat.
  • The multihull discipline has been reintroduced using the Nacra 17 since the Tornado was dropped for London 2012.
  • A mixed gender event was introduced for the first time in Olympics Sailing. This follows to some degree the paralympic sailing competition which in 2008 introduced a two-person keelboat discipline in the Skud 18 with a requirement for at least one of the two person crew to be female. Tennis and Badminton are the other olympic sports with a mixed discipline.
  • Women's skiff discipline has been added using the same equipment as the men's skiff discipline but with a slightly reduced sailplan 49erFX
  • Kiteboarding was initially voted by the ISAF Council in May 2012 to replace windsurfing with kitesurfing and reaffirmed that vote on 9 November 2012.[1] The move was controversial as former gold medalist and IOC member Barbara Kendall said she would challenge the decision and that "it’s exciting for kiteboarding but tragic for windsurfing. Kiteboarding really is a sport that should be at the X-Games." However, on 10 November 2012, the delegates at the International Sailing Federation’s General Assembly voted to keep windsurfing at the 2016 Olympic Games, overturning the ISAF Council's decision which had already been partially implemented within ISAF Events and Rankings.[2]

Competition News

Following the announcement of the game water pollution became a hot topic, and a commitment to cleaning up the water was given by the hosts. This target was not fully achieved and water quality issues were frequently in the media.[3][4][5] World Sailing examined various options including holding the racing fully outside the bay or even moving the event to Buzios.[6] However, in the end only the Belgian sailor Evi Van Acker reported that her olympics were affected.[7] The location for sailing events was a source of concern for athletes since scientists had found drug-resistant super bacteria in Guanabara Bay due to the daily dumping of hospital waste and household raw sewage into the rivers and ocean. The Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab also found the genes of super bacteria in a river that empties into Guanabara Bay.[3][4]

Just before the games the launch ramp collapsed but no one was injured.[8]

Competition format

Qualification

Lua error in Module:Details at line 30: attempt to call field '_formatLink' (a nil value). A total of 380 athletes competed in the sailing competitions of the Games. The qualification period began at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in September 2014. As hosts, Brazil was guaranteed one quota place in each of the ten events.[9]

Classes (equipment)

Class Type Event Sailors Trapeze Mainsail Jib/Genoa Spinnaker First OG Olympics so far
RS:X Sailboard women 1 - + - - 2008 3
RS:X Sailboard men 1 - + - - 2008 3
Laser Radial Dinghy women 1 - + - - 2008 3
Laser Dinghy men 1 - + - - 1996 6
Finn Dinghy men 1 - + – – 1952 17
470 Dinghy women 2 1 + + + 1988 8
470 Dinghy men 2 1 + + + 1976 11
49er Skiff men 2 2 + + + 2000 5
49erFX Skiff women 2 2 + + + 2016 1
Nacra 17 Multihull mixed 2 2 + + + 2016 1

Scoring

Racing at the 2016 Olympics was fleet racing where all competitors started and sailed the course together. They were scored according to the low-point system, where first place is scored 1, second place is scored 2, etc. There was a series of preliminary races followed by the final Medal Race. The RS:X, 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 classes had 12 preliminary races, other classes have 10.

At the end of the preliminary races, the top ten boats in each class (i.e. those with the lowest total scores) advanced to the Medal Race. Each boat might exclude one race from their total. The Medal Race could not be excluded from the series score and counts double. The boat with the lowest overall total after all races was the winner.[10] Any ties in the final rankings were broken in favour of the competitor/crew finishing higher in the Medal Race.[11]

Competition schedule

The competition started on 8 August and finished on 18 August.[12]

● Preliminary race ● Medal race
Date →
Event ↓		 Mon 8 Tue 9 Wed 10 Thu 11 Fri 12 Sat 13 Sun 14 Mon 15 Tue 16 Wed 17 Thu 18
Men's RS:X ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●
Women's RS:X ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●
Men's Laser ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●
Women's Laser Radial ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●
Men's Finn ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●
Mixed Nacra 17 ●● ●●●● ●●● ●●● ●
Men's 470 ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●
Women's 470 ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●
Men's 49er ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●
Women's 49erFX ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●

Participation

Participating nations

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Competitors

Medal summary

Medal table

Key

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Great Britain 2 1 0 3
2  Netherlands 2 0 0 2
3  Australia 1 3 0 4
4  New Zealand 1 2 1 4
5  Croatia 1 1 0 2
6  France 1 0 2 3
7  Argentina 1 0 0 1
 Brazil* 1 0 0 1
9  China 0 1 0 1
 Ireland 0 1 0 1
 Slovenia 0 1 0 1
12  Denmark 0 0 2 2
13  Austria 0 0 1 1
 Germany 0 0 1 1
 Greece 0 0 1 1
 Russia 0 0 1 1
 United States 0 0 1 1
Total 17 NOCs 10 10 10 30

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
RS:X
details		 Dorian van Rijsselberghe
 Netherlands		 Nick Dempsey
 Great Britain		 Pierre Le Coq
 France
Laser
details		 Tom Burton
 Australia		 Tonči Stipanović
 Croatia		 Sam Meech
 New Zealand
Finn
details		 Giles Scott
 Great Britain		 Vasilij Žbogar
 Slovenia		 Caleb Paine
 United States
470
details		  Croatia (CRO)
Šime Fantela
Igor Marenić		  Australia (AUS)
Mathew Belcher
William Ryan		  Greece (GRE)
Panagiotis Mantis
Pavlos Kagialis
49er
details		  New Zealand (NZL)
Peter Burling
Blair Tuke		  Australia (AUS)
Nathan Outteridge
Iain Jensen		  Germany (GER)
Erik Heil
Thomas Plößel

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
RS:X
details		 Charline Picon
 France		 Chen Peina
 China		 Stefania Elfutina
 Russia
Laser Radial
details		 Marit Bouwmeester
 Netherlands		 Annalise Murphy
 Ireland		 Anne-Marie Rindom
 Denmark
470
details		  Great Britain (GBR)
Hannah Mills
Saskia Clark		  New Zealand (NZL)
Jo Aleh
Polly Powrie		  France (FRA)
Camille Lecointre
Hélène Defrance
49erFX
details		  Brazil (BRA)
Martine Grael
Kahena Kunze		  New Zealand (NZL)
Alex Maloney
Molly Meech		  Denmark (DEN)
Jena Mai Hansen
Katja Salskov-Iversen

Mixed events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Nacra 17
details		  Argentina (ARG)
Santiago Lange
Cecilia Carranza Saroli		  Australia (AUS)
Jason Waterhouse
Lisa Darmanin		  Austria (AUT)
Thomas Zajac
Tanja Frank

See also

References

  1. ↑ 'Kiteboarding to replace windsurfing at 2016 Rio Olympics' Article, 7 May 2012 at bbc.co.uk
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  8. ↑ 'Rio 2016: Olympic sailing ramp collapses...' Article, 1 August 2016, at independent.co.uk
  9. ↑ Qualification summary February 2014.
  10. ↑ Competition format for Rio Olympics, 31 March 2016, at nbcolympics.com
  11. ↑ Article about scoring at sailing.org/olympics/rio2016
  12. ↑ "Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition" at sailing.org/2016-olympic-games

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