| Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics |
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| RS:X | Men | Women | |||
| Laser Radial | Women | ||||
| Laser | Men | ||||
| Finn | Open | ||||
| 470 | Men | Women | |||
| 49er | Open | ||||
| Tornado | Open | ||||
| Yngling | Women | ||||
| Star | Men | ||||
Star class competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing took place in Qingdao, at Qingdao International Marina.
The ten preliminary races took place in the afternoons of August 15–20. The final Medal Race started at 14:13 on 21 August 2008.
16 teams of two sailors each competed in this Star sailboat competition.
Points were assigned based on the finishing position in each race (1 for first, 2 for second, etc.). The points were totaled from the top 9 results of the first 10 races, with lower totals being better. If a pair was disqualified or did not complete the race, 17 points were assigned for that race (one more than the number of boats). The top 10 pairs then competed in the final race, with placings counting double for that race. The team with the lowest total score wins.
| Gold | Iain Percy & Andrew Simpson Great Britain (GBR) |
| Silver | Robert Scheidt & Bruno Prada Brazil (BRA) |
| Bronze | Fredrik Lööf & Anders Ekström Sweden (SWE) |
| Nation | Athlete | Birth date | Height (m) |
Weight (kg) |
World Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia (AUS) | Iain Murray (S) | 1958-04-14 | 1.83 | 110 | 9 |
| Australia (AUS) | Andrew Palfrey (C) | 1967-01-26 | 1.93 | 96 | 9 |
| Austria (AUT) | Hans Spitzauer (S) | 1965-03-01 | 1.80 | 90 | – |
| Austria (AUT) | Hans Christian Nehammer (C) | 1976-05-26 | 1.90 | 108 | – |
| Brazil (BRA) | Robert Scheidt (S) | 1973-04-15 | 1.88 | 78 | 6 |
| Brazil (BRA) | Bruno Prada (C) | 1971-07-31 | 1.85 | 100 | 6 |
| China (CHN) | Li Hongquan (S) | 1969-09-29 | 1.85 | 85 | – |
| China (CHN) | Wang He (C) | 1988-11-09 | 1.90 | 100 | – |
| Croatia (CRO) | Marin Lovrovic (S) | 1973-06-16 | 1.86 | 100 | 11 |
| Croatia (CRO) | Sinisa Mikulicic (C) | 1983-10-16 | 1.75 | 100 | 11 |
| France (FRA) | Xavier Rohart (S) | 1968-07-01 | 1.88 | 100 | 8 |
| France (FRA) | Pascal Rambeau (C) | 1972-04-14 | 1.94 | 100 | 8 |
| Great Britain (GBR) | Iain Percy (S) | 1976-03-21 | 1.85 | 92 | 12 |
| Great Britain (GBR) | Andrew Simpson (C) | 1976-12-17 | 1.85 | 104 | 12 |
| Germany (GER) | Marc Pickel (S) | 1971-12-12 | 1.96 | 102 | 10 |
| Germany (GER) | Ingo Borkowski (C) | 1971-10-02 | 1.85 | 83 | 10 |
| Ireland (IRL) | Peter O'Leary (S) | 1983-03-29 | 1.88 | 88 | 48 |
| Ireland (IRL) | Stephen Milne (C) | 1985-07-25 | 1.90 | 105 | 48 |
| Italy (ITA) | Diego Negri (S) | 1971-04-16 | 1.82 | 92 | 4 |
| Italy (ITA) | Luigi Viale (C) | 1978-11-05 | 1.94 | 103 | 4 |
| New Zealand (NZL) | Hamish Pepper (S) | 1971-05-13 | 1.76 | 82 | 5 |
| New Zealand (NZL) | Carl Williams (C) | 1981-06-09 | 1.95 | 110 | 5 |
| Poland (POL) | Mateusz Kusznierewicz (S) | 1975-04-29 | 1.93 | 100 | 1 |
| Poland (POL) | Dominik Życki (C) | 1974-02-15 | — | — | 1 |
| Portugal (POR) | Afonso Domingos (S) | 1969-07-29 | 1.74 | 83 | 7 |
| Portugal (POR) | Bernardo Plantier Santos (C) | 1980-07-17 | 1.92 | 112 | 7 |
| Switzerland (SUI) | Flavio Marazzi (S) | 1978-02-07 | 1.91 | 100 | 2 |
| Switzerland (SUI) | Enrico De Maria (C) | 1976-12-20 | 1.90 | 99 | 2 |
| Sweden (SWE) | Fredrik Lööf (S) | 1969-12-13 | 1.90 | 97 | 3 |
| Sweden (SWE) | Anders Ekström (C) | 1981-01-16 | 1.81 | 102 | 3 |
| United States (USA) | John Dane III (S) | 1950-07-15 | 1.91 | 99 | 17 |
| United States (USA) | Austin Sperry (C) | 1978-05-11 | 1.85 | 102 | 17 |
| Rank | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | MR | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Britain (GBR) | 7 | 13† | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 45 | |
| Brazil (BRA) | 10 | 11† | 6 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 53 | |
| Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 4 | 15† | 3 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 53 | |
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 5 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13† | 2 | 59 |
| 5 | Switzerland (SUI) | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11† | 4 | 1 | 4 | 59 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 12† | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 69 |
| 7 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 14† | 1 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 70 |
| 8 | Portugal (POR) | 3 | 3 | 10 | OCS† | 13 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 72 |
| 9 | New Zealand (NZL) | 4 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 13† | 5 | 11 | 14 | 80 |
| 10 | Italy (ITA) | 13† | 8 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 92 |
| 11 | United States (USA) | 8 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 16† | 16 | 10 | 4 | X | 86 |
| 12 | Austria (AUT) | 14† | 10 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 14 | X | 87 |
| 13 | Ireland (IRL) | 6 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 13† | 13 | 8 | 11 | 12 | X | 91 |
| 14 | Australia (AUS) | 11 | 15† | 13 | 15 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 8 | X | 96 |
| 15 | Croatia (CRO) | 15† | 5 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 15 | X | 98 |
| 16 | China (CHN) | 16† | 16 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | X | 140 |
† – Excluded Score (the worst score from races 1–10 does not count)
OCS – On the course side of the starting line – A type of disqualification (scores one higher than the number of boats in the race)