Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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The main building at the venue

Sailing (also called yachting) at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by six events. They were all held at the Pirita Yachting Centre, situated in Tallinn Bay, on the Baltic Sea near Tallinn. The schedule started on July 22 and ended on August 1.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
470	Brazil (BRA) Marcos Soares Eduardo Penido	East Germany (GDR) Jorn Borowski Egbert Swensson	Finland (FIN) Jouko Lindgrén Georg Tallberg
Finn	Esko Rechardt Finland (FIN)	Wolfgang Mayrhofer Austria (AUT)	Andrei Balashov Soviet Union (URS)
Flying Dutchman	Spain (ESP) Alejandro Abascal Garcia Miguel Noguer Castellvi	Ireland (IRL) David Wilkins James Wilkinson	Hungary (HUN) Szabólcs Detre Zsolt Detre
Soling	Denmark (DEN) Valdemar Bandolowski Erik Hansen Poul Jensen	Soviet Union (URS) Alexandr Budnikov Boris Budnikov Nikolay Poliakov	Greece (GRE) Anastassios Boudouris Anastiassios Gavrilis Aristidis Rapanakis
Star	Soviet Union (URS) Valentyn Mankin Aleksandr Muzychenko	Austria (AUT) Karl Ferstl Hubert Raudaschl	Italy (ITA) Giorgio Gorla Alfio Peraboni
Tornado	Brazil (BRA) Lars Sigurd Bjorkström Alexandre Welter	Denmark (DEN) Peter Due Per Kjærgaard	Sweden (SWE) Goran Marstrom Jorgen Ragnarsson

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	2	0	0	2
2	Soviet Union	1	1	1	3
3	Denmark	1	1	0	2
4	Finland	1	0	1	2
5	Spain	1	0	0	1
6	Austria	0	2	0	2
7	East Germany	0	1	0	1
	Ireland	0	1	0	1
9	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1

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