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,[1] 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
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates3–10 August
Competitors40 from 20 nations
Teams20 (boats)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)Jo Aleh
Polly Powrie
 New Zealand
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Hannah Mills
Saskia Clark
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Lisa Westerhof
Lobke Berkhout
 Netherlands
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Schedule[1][2]

 ● Practice race ● Race on Portland ● Race on Nothe ● Race on West ● Race on South ● Medal race on Nothe
DateJulyAugust
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 [3]

Course areas

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
PosHelmsman CountryIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXMR Tot Pts
Jo Aleh
Polly Powrie
 New Zealand262510411218253.035.0
Hannah Mills
Saskia Clark
 Great Britain61461652821859.051.0
Lisa Westerhof
Lobke Berkhout
 Netherlands1864218432061284.064.0
4Camille Lecointre
Mathilde Géron
 France10171812376351082.065.0
5Giulia Conti
Giovanna Micol
 Italy81018231161667491.073.0
6Fernanda Oliveira
Ana Barbachan
 Brazil115141610109541489.075.0
7Elise Rechichi
Belinda Stowell
 Australia1473DSQ 21979134116104.083.0
8Kathrin Kadelbach
Friederike Belcher
 Germany1927131556514116103.084.0
9Amanda Clark
Sarah Lihan
 United States735719203817920118.098.0
10Tara Pacheco
Berta Betanzos
 Spain15148161381147138117.0101.0
11Wang Xiaoli
Huang Xufeng
 China1818912819217112 116.097.0
12Agnieszka Skrzypulec
Jolanta Ogar
 Poland13132017721871110 118.098.0
13María Fernanda Sesto
Consuelo Monsegur
 Argentina16191935121411153 117.098.0
14Ai Kondo
Wakako Tabata
 Japan94171911913DSQ 21138 124.0103.0
15Gil Cohen
Vered Bouskila
 Israel3DSQ 21101841412151217 126.0105.0
16Henriette Koch
Lene Sommer
 Denmark512161014161510915 122.0106.0
17Enia Ninčević
Romana Župan
 Croatia416131120118191914 135.0115.0
18Tina Mrak
Teja Černe
 Slovenia1291214171717141616 144.0127.0
19Lisa Ericson
Astrid Gabrielsson
 Sweden1711119161519121820 148.0128.0
20Lara Vadlau
Eva-Maria Schimak
 Austria20151515181320181019 163.0143.0

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
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.

References