The Men's 470 was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre,[2] in the 470 dinghy. Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 58 sailors, on 29 boats, from 29 nations competed.[3] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.[4][5]
Men's 470[1] at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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![]() Line drawing of the 470 | |||||||||||||
Venue | Qingdao International Sailing Centre | ||||||||||||
Dates | First race: 11 August 2008 Last race: 18 August 2008 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 58 from 29 nations | ||||||||||||
Teams | 29 (boats) | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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● | Practice race | ● | Race on Yellow | ● | Race on Orange | ● | Medal race on Yellow |
Date | August | |||||||||||||||||
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7 Thu |
8 Fri |
9 Sat |
10 Sun |
11 Mon |
12 Tue |
13 Wed |
14 Thu |
15 Fri |
16 Sat |
17 Sun |
18 Mon |
19 Tue |
20 Wed |
21 Thu |
22 Fri |
23 Sat |
24 Sun | |
Men's 470 | ● | 2 | 2 | 2 | Spare day |
2 | 2 | Spare day |
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For the 470 course areas A (Yellow) and D (Orange) were used. The location (36°1'26"’N, 120°26'52"E) points to the center of the 0.6nm radius Yellow course area and the location (36°1'10"N, 120°28'47"E) points to the center of the 0.75nm radius Orange course area. The target time for the course was about 60 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from several course configurations.
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Course Areas
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60° Trapezoid Outer Course (O)
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60° Trapezoid Inner Course (I)
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Windward – Leeward Course (W)
Outer courses
edit- O1: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH
- O2: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH
- O3: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH
Inner courses
edit- I1: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH
- I2: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH
- I3: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH
Windward-Leeward courses
edit- W2: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – FINISH
- W3: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – FINISH
- W4: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – FINISH
Weather conditions
editIn the lead up to the Olympics many questioned the choice of Qingdao as a venue with very little predicted wind. During the races the wind was pretty light and quite unpredictable but the Men's 470 competition was executed as scheduled.[8]
Pos | Helmsman | Country | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | MR | Tot | Pts |
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Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page |
Australia | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16† | 3 | 10 | 1 | 60.0 | 44.0 | |
Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield |
Great Britain | 19 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 20 | OCS 30† | 2 | 3 | 3 | 105.0 | 75.0 | |
Nicolas Charbonnier Olivier Bausset |
France | 6 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 20† | 6 | 98.0 | 78.0 | |
4 | Sven Coster Kalle Coster |
Netherlands | 11 | 15† | 12 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 93.0 | 78.0 |
5 | Onán Barreiros Aarón Sarmiento |
Spain | 8 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 18† | 4 | 105.0 | 87.0 |
6 | Gabrio Zandonà Andrea Trani |
Italy | 10 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 19 | 6 | 29† | 5 | 5 | 120.0 | 91.0 |
7 | Tetsuya Matsunaga Taro Ueno |
Japan | 1 | 20 | 24† | 13 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 121.0 | 97.0 |
8 | Álvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes |
Portugal | 2 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 9 | OCS 30† | 10 | 14 | 10 | 132.0 | 102.0 |
9 | Šime Fantela Igor Marenić |
Croatia | 18 | 6 | 9 | OCS 30† | 12 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 137.0 | 107.0 |
10 | Javier Conte Juan de la Fuente |
Argentina | 14 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 9 | 7 | OCS 30† | 5 | 9 | 9 | 140.0 | 110.0 |
11 | Carl Evans Peter Burling |
New Zealand | 7 | 10 | 14 | 12 | BFD 30† | 10 | 22 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 125.0 | 95.0 | |
12 | Andreas Kosmatopoulos Andreas Papadopoulos |
Greece | 5 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 3 | 20 | 29† | 130.0 | 101.0 | |
13 | Stuart McNay Graham Biehl |
United States | 26 | 12 | 30† | 17 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 23 | 135.0 | 105.0 | |
14 | Gideon Kliger Udi Gal |
Israel | 13 | 16 | 13 | 14 | BFD 30† | 11 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 138.0 | 108.0 | |
15 | Anton Dahlberg Sebastian Östling |
Sweden | 16 | 18 | 2 | 5 | BFD 30† | 20 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 141.0 | 111.0 | |
16 | Gerald Owens Philip Lawton |
Ireland | 22 | 1 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 25† | 21 | 15 | 13 | 24 | 154.0 | 129.0 | |
17 | Fábio Pillar Samuel Albrecht |
Brazil | 9 | 30† | 10 | 18 | 4 | OCS 30 | 16 | 10 | 24 | 13 | 164.0 | 134.0 | |
18 | Karlo Hmeljak Mitja Nevečny |
Slovenia | 3 | 11 | 19 | 10 | 19 | OCS 30† | 25 | 20 | 25 | 8 | 169.0 | 139.0 | |
19 | Patryk Piasecki Kacper Ziemiński |
Poland | 20 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 24† | 23 | 15 | 175.0 | 151.0 | |
20 | Mikhail Sheremetyev Maksim Sheremetyev |
Russia | 27† | 21 | 22 | 21 | 24 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 184.0 | 157.0 | |
21 | Sergei Desukevich Pavel Logunov |
Belarus | 29† | 27 | 16 | 26 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 27 | 188.0 | 159.0 | |
22 | Xu Yuan Zhen Terence Koh |
Singapore | 15 | 17 | 18 | 19 | BFD 30† | 8 | 10 | 19 | 27 | 26 | 189.0 | 159.0 | |
23 | Tobias Etter Felix Steiger |
Switzerland | 21 | 23 | 5 | 25 | 7 | OCS 30† | 27 | 26 | 9 | 19 | 192.0 | 162.0 | |
24 | Matthias Schmid Florian Reichstädter |
Austria | 24 | 19 | 25† | 24 | 14 | 24 | 24 | 5 | 19 | 11 | 189.0 | 164.0 | |
25 | Yoon Cheul Kim Hyeong-tae |
South Korea | 17 | 24 | 21 | 27† | 20 | 3 | 23 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 207.0 | 180.0 | |
26 | Wang Weidong Deng Daokun |
China | 12 | 30† | 23 | 16 | 21 | 26 | OCS 30† | 22 | 8 | 28 | 216.0 | 186.0 | |
27 | Niklas Lindgren Heikki Elomaa |
Finland | 28 | 22 | 27 | DSQ 30† | 25 | 19 | 14 | 23 | 17 | 21 | 226.0 | 196.0 | |
28 | Deniz Çınar Ateş Çınar |
Turkey | 23 | 13 | 26 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 26 | 21 | 28† | 22 | 226.0 | 198.0 | |
29 | Stéphane Locas Oliver Bone |
Canada | 25 | 25 | DNF 30† | 20 | 23 | 22 | OCS 30 | 18 | 26 | 16 | 235.0 | 205.0 |
Scoring system: low-point system;
Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s); BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNE – Non excludable disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; DPI – Discretionary penalty imposed; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;
Daily standings
editMedalists
editFurther reading
edit- "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- "Beijing 2008". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
References
edit- ^ a b Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume II Ceremonies and Competitions: Celebration of the Games (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume I Bid Documents and Analysis: Passion behind the Bid (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ The 2008 Olympic scoring system was used.
- ^ For the medal race the top ten boats qualified. Each position scored double points. All medal races were sailed on course area Yellow in front of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre.
- ^ "Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics: Two Person Dinghy (470), Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume III Preparation for the Games: New Beijing Great Olympics (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Sailing Competition: Sailing Instructions" (PDF). International Sailing Federation. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ^ "Qingdao Report – Luke Van Der Kamp" (PDF). Team GBR. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ^ Official Results book Part 3 (Sailing) (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "Sailing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Men's Two Person Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2014.