Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics â€“ Finn

The sailing competition in the Finn Dinghy ( in English for the first time as one person heavyweight dinghy ) at the 2012 Olympic Games in London from July 29 to August 5, 2012 held in the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. 24 athletes participated.

The competition was carried out in eleven races ( fleet race ). The first ten races were completed by all starters. Here, points were awarded for the course number. In the final account, the worst result was deleted. The ten sailors with the lowest score were qualified for the medal race. The previous points were taken, but doubled the placement points for the medal race.

For false starts ( OCS on course side), and a race crash ( DNF ) received the glider in question 25 points. Also in disqualification ( DSQ ), the starter got 25 points. In addition, the jury could also distribute throughout the race penalty points (DPI = Discretionary Penalty Imposed ).

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Regatta

Race 1 and 2: July 29, 2012 Race 3 and 4: July 30, 2012 Race 5 and 6: July 31, 2012 Race 7 and 8: August 2, 2012 Race 9 and 10: August 3, 2012 The Ukrainier Borysov received a credit point in the second race.

Note: The worst scores are in italics. All qualified Medal Race sailors are highlighted in light green.

Medal race

August 5, 2012, 15:00 CEST clock

Full Time

Ben Ainslie made his victory a record of the Dane Paul Elvstrøm, the four consecutive time Olympic champion (1948 - 1960). Ainslie also won four times in a row (2000 - 2012), 1996, he also won nor silver. With this fifth medal overall he pulled the same with the two Brazilians Robert Scheidt and Torben Grael.

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