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 | 380 (217 male, 163 female) from 68 nations |
Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
Events | ||
RS:X | men | women |
Laser | men | |
Laser Radial | women | |
Finn | men | |
470 | men | women |
49er | men | |
49erFX | women | |
Nacra17 | mixed | |
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.
Following the announcement of the games, 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 German sailor Erik Heil was also infected by multi-resistant germs during an Olympic test event in Rio. [8] 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. [9]
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. [10]
Class | Type | Event | Sailors | Trapeze | Mainsail | Jib/Genoa | Spinnaker | First OG | Olympics so far |
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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 |
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. [11] Any ties in the final rankings were broken in favour of the competitor/crew finishing higher in the Medal Race. [12]
The competition started on 8 August and finished on 18 August. [13]
● | 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 |
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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 | ●●● | ●●● | ●●● | ●●● | ● |
* Host nation (Brazil)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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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 | |
Totals (17 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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RS:X |
Dorian van Rijsselberghe Netherlands |
Nick Dempsey Great Britain |
Pierre Le Coq France |
Laser |
Tom Burton Australia |
Tonči Stipanović Croatia |
Sam Meech New Zealand |
Finn |
Giles Scott Great Britain |
Vasilij Žbogar Slovenia |
Caleb Paine United States |
470 |
Croatia (CRO) Šime Fantela Igor Marenić |
Australia (AUS) Mathew Belcher Will Ryan |
Greece (GRE) Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis |
49er |
New Zealand (NZL) Peter Burling Blair Tuke |
Australia (AUS) Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen |
Germany (GER) Erik Heil Thomas Plößel |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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RS:X |
Charline Picon France |
Chen Peina China |
Stefania Elfutina Russia |
Laser Radial |
Marit Bouwmeester Netherlands |
Annalise Murphy Ireland |
Anne-Marie Rindom Denmark |
470 |
Great Britain (GBR) Hannah Mills Saskia Clark |
New Zealand (NZL) Jo Aleh Polly Powrie |
France (FRA) Camille Lecointre Hélène Defrance |
49erFX |
Brazil (BRA) Martine Grael Kahena Kunze |
New Zealand (NZL) Alex Maloney Molly Meech |
Denmark (DEN) Jena Hansen Katja Salskov-Iversen |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Nacra 17 |
Argentina (ARG) Santiago Lange Cecilia Carranza |
Australia (AUS) Jason Waterhouse Lisa Darmanin |
Austria (AUT) Thomas Zajac Tanja Frank |
The findings from two unpublished academic studies seen by Reuters concern Rio's most popular spots for tourists and greatly increase the areas known to be infected by the microbes normally found only in hospitals.
A 2014 study had already shown the presence of super bacteria off one of the beaches in Guanabara Bay, where sailing and wind-surfing events are going to be held. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already declared super bacteria an urgent public health crisis.
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