Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Elliott 6m
| Women’s Elliott 6m at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | ||||||||||
 Line drawing of the Elliott 6m | ||||||||||
| Venue | Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy | |||||||||
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| Dates | First race: July 29, 2012 Last race: August 5, 2012 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 12 nations | |||||||||
| Teams | 12 (boats) | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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The Women’s Elliott 6m was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.[1] The competition was Match race format. It consisted of a round-robin a quarter finals, semi-finals, petit-final and final series. The top eight crews from the round-robin were seeded into the quarter final.[2][3][4]
Race schedule[1][5]
| ● | Practice race | ● | Round Robin on Nothe | ● | Knock-out on Nothe | ● | Semi-finals on Nothe | ● | Finals on Nothe |
| Date | July | August | ||||||||||||||||
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| 26 Thu | 27 Fri | 28 Sat | 29 Sun | 30 Mon | 31 Tue | 1 Wed | 2 Thu | 3 Fri | 4 Sat | 5 Sun | 6th Mon | 7 Tue | 8 Wed | 9 Thu | 10 Fri | 11 Sat | 12 Sun | |
| Women’s Elliott 6m | ● | 11 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 8 | Spare day |
1 | 8 | 12 | Spare day |
10 | 9 | ||||
Elliott 6ms during match racing
| Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics  | |||||
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| RS:X | men | women | |||
| Laser Radial | women | ||||
| Laser | men | ||||
| Finn | men | ||||
| 470 | men | women | |||
| 49er | men | ||||
| Elliott 6m | women | ||||
| Star | men | ||||
Course areas and course configurations [6]
Course Areas
For the Elliott 6m all racing took place on course area N (Nothe). The location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area. The target time for the course was 18 minutes. The race management could choose from many course configurations.
Further information: Sailing courses at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Final results[3][7]
Round Robin
 Rank |  Country |  AUS |  RUS |  ESP |  USA |  FIN |  FRA |  GBR |  NED |  NZL |  DEN |  POR |  SWE | Races | Won | Lost | Points | |
| 1 | Australia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | ||
| 2 | Russia | 1 PEN | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 8 | ||
| 3 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 8 | ||
| 4 | United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 8 | ||
| 5 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 6 | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 7 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 5 | ||
| 8 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 DNF | 0 | 1 | 0 DSQ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 4 | ||
| 9 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 4 | ||
| 10 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 DNF | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 3 | ||
| 11 | Portugal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 DNF | 0 | 0 DNF | 0 DNF | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 | ||
| 12 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
Legend: DNF – Did not finish; DSQ – Disqualified; PEN – Penalty given by the protest committee;
QUA – Qualified for next phase;
Knock-out and Finals
| Knock Out 7 – 8 August 2012 |
Semi Finals 10 August 2012 |
Finals 11 August 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Netherlands |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | x | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Australia |
1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | x | |||||||||||||||||||
| Australia |
0 | 1 | 1 | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Finland |
1 | 0 | 0 | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Finland |
1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | x | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | United States |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | x | |||||||||||||||||||
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Australia |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Spain |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | France |
0 | 0 | 0 | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Spain |
1 | 1 | 1 | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
| Spain |
0 | 1 | 1 | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Russia |
1 | 0 | 0 | x | x | Bronze Medal Match | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Great Britain |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Russia |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |  |
Finland |
1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | x | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Russia |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | x | |||||||||||||||||||
5th to 8th place
Sail-offs for places 5–8, scheduled for August 9, were cancelled due to low winds. The Round robin results were used for final placement.
Final ranking
| Rank | Country | Helmsman | Crew | Round Robin | Knock out | Semi Finals | Finals |
| | Spain | Támara Echegoyen | Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Australia | Olivia Price | Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Finland | Silja Lehtinen | Silja Kanerva Mikaela Wulff | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Russia | Ekaterina Skudina | Elena Oblova Elena Syuzeva | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | United States | Anna Tunnicliffe | Deborah Capozzi Molly O'Bryan – Vandemoer | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| 6 | France | Claire Leroy | Elodie Bertrand Marie Riou | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| 7 | Great Britain | Lucy MacGregor | Annie Lush Kate MacGregor | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| 8 | Netherlands | Renee Groeneveld | Annemieke Bes Marcelien Bos – de Koning | 8 | 8 | - | - |
| 9 | New Zealand | Stephanie Hazard | Jenna Hansen Susannah Pyatt | 9 | - | - | - |
| 10 | Denmark | Lotte Meldegaard Pedersen | Susanne Boidin Tina Gramkov | 10 | - | - | - |
| 11 | Portugal | Rita Gonçalves | Mariana Lobato Diana Neves | 11 | - | - | - |
| 12 | Sweden | Anna Kjellberg | Malin Källström Lotta Harrysson | 12 | - | - | - |
Notes
A total of 98 matches were sailed:
- Sixty seven matches were sailed in the round robin (inclusive the re-sail of the match between FIN and POR (Finland originally won her round robin race against Portugal, but the race was annulled after a protest by Portugal due to Portuguese boat getting stuck at the turning mark. Finland won the rescheduled race as well.[8])
- The Quarter finals (best 3 out of 5) 16 matches were sailed.
- Semi-final, best 2 out of 3 (best 3 out of 5 was planned. Russia appealed the decision to stop the semi-final after 3 matches and the results of 4th match of the petite final to CAS.[4] The appeal to the semi-finals decision was later rejected.)[9] Six matches were sailed.
- Petit-final and final series (best 3 out of 5) 4 matches.
- In the final a total of 5 matches were sailed.
Further reading
- "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- "Olympic Games". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Notice of Race" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ↑ Staff. "Match race competition format". Website of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The 2012 Olympic scoring system was used.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Semi-final & Petit final appeal (ОКР подал апелляцию в CAS по поводу результата полуфинала в классе «Эллиот 6»)" (in Russian). Retrieved 4 April 2014.
- ↑ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ↑ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment" (PDF). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ↑ "Women's Three Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ↑ "Lehtisen venekunnan voitto vesittyi - lähtö uusitaan". Retrieved 4 April 2014.
- ↑ "CAS decision". Retrieved 4 April 2014.