Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Soling

Soling
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad

Soling

Venue

Savannah

Dates

July 22 to August 2

Competitors

66 from 22 nations

Teams

Medalists

	Jochen Schümann Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	Germany
	Georgi Shayduko Dmitri Shabanov Igor Skalin	Russia
	Jeff Madrigali Jim Barton Kent Massey	United States

Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Mistral	Men		Women
Europe			Women
Laser		Open
Finn	Men
470	Men		Women
Tornado		Open
Star		Open
Soling		Open

The Soling Competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was held from July 22 to August 2, 1996, in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The competition was in a combined format. First the competitors had to sail a series of ten fleet races. Points were awarded for placement in each race. The best eight out of ten race scores did count for the placement in the match race series. After the fleetraces a series of matchraces were held to determine the winners.

Results after Fleetrace

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Crew	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Race 4		Race 5		Race 6		Race 7		Race 8		Race 9		Race 10		Total	Total – discard
Rank	Country	Helmsman	Crew	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Total	Total – discard
1	Germany	Jochen Schümann	Thomas Flach Bernd Jäkel	5	5.0	5	5.0	2	2.0	4	4.0	1	1.0	9	~~9.0~~	9	~~9.0~~	6	6.0	2	2.0	9	9.0	52.0	34.0
2	United States	Jeff Madrigali	Jim Barton Kent Massey	1	1.0	4	4.0	9	9.0	2	2.0	5	5.0	19	~~19.0~~	5	5.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	12	~~12.0~~	67.0	36.0
3	Great Britain	Andrew Beadsworth	Barry Parkin Adrian George Stead	7	7.0	1	1.0	8	8.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	1	1.0	6	6.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	12	12.0	14	~~14.0~~	83.0	46.0
4	Canada	Bill Abbott, Jr.	Joanne Abbott Brad Boston	9	9.0	20	~~20.0~~	16	~~16.0~~	10	10.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	1	1.0	1	1.0	8	8.0	8	8.0	83.0	47.0
5	Russia	Georgi Shayduko	Dmitri Shabanov Igor Skalin	2	2.0	11	11.0	13	~~13.0~~	8	8.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	12	~~12.0~~	8	8.0	7	7.0	3	3.0	75.0	50.0
6	Denmark	Stig Westergaard	Jan Andersen Jens Bojsen-Møller	15	15.0	6	6.0	3	3.0	16	16.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	2	2.0	11	11.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	4	4.0	1	1.0	104.0	58.0
7	Ukraine	Sergej Pichugin	Sergej Khayndrava Wladimir Korotkov	~~DSQ~~	~~23.0~~	3	3.0	1	1.0	15	15.0	6	6.0	18	~~18.0~~	18	18.0	5	5.0	9	9.0	2	2.0	100.0	59.0
8	Spain	Luis Doreste	Domingo Manrique David Vera	4	4.0	8	8.0	12	12.0	13	~~13.0~~	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	5	5.0	8	8.0	10	10.0	10	10.0	4	4.0	97.0	61.0
9	Norway	Herman Horn Johannessen	Paul Davis Espen Stokkeland	13	13.0	15	15.0	4	12.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	12	12.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	3	3.0	16	~~16.0~~	7	7.0	104.0	65.0
10	Italy	Mario Celon	Claudio Celon Gianni Torboli	6	6.0	16	~~16.0~~	14	14.0	1	1.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	3	3.0	16	16.0	15	15.0	19	~~19.0~~	101.0	66.0
11	France	Marc Bouet	Sylvain Chtounder Gildas Morvan	11	11.0	~~DSQ~~	~~23.0~~	6	6.0	17	~~17.0~~	9	9.0	13	13.0	10	10.0	7	7.0	3	3.0	10	10.0	109.0	69.0
12	Australia	Matt Hayes	Steve Jarvin Stephen McConaghy	10	10.0	13	13.0	5	5.0	14	14.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	6	6.0	2	2.0	14	14.0	6	6.0	~~DSQ~~	~~23.0~~	116.0	70.0
13	Sweden	Magnus Holmberg	Björn Alm Johan Barne	12	12.0	9	9.0	~~DNC~~	~~23.0~~	3	3.0	13	13.0	12	12.0	14	~~14.0~~	4	4.0	13	13.0	5	5.0	108.0	71.0
14	New Zealand	Kelvin Harrap	Sean Clarkson Robert Gale	~~DSQ~~	~~23.0~~	18	~~18.0~~	7	7.0	5	5.0	15	15.0	11	11.0	7	7.0	15	15.0	5	5.0	15	15.0	121.0	80.0
15	Netherlands	Willem Potma	Frank Hettinga Gerhard Potma	8	8.0	7	7.0	10	10.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	10	10.0	15	15.0	16	16.0	2	2.0	17	~~17.0~~	16	16.0	124.0	84.0
16	Ireland	Marshall King	Garrett Connolly Daniel O'grady	3	3.0	10	10.0	11	11.0	9	9.0	16	16.0	17	~~17.0~~	13	13.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	14	14.0	17	17.0	133.0	93.0
17	South Africa	Bruce Savage	Richard Mayhew Clynton Wade Lehman	17	17.0	2	2.0	17	17.0	11	11.0	11	11.0	20	~~20.0~~	15	15.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	11	11.0	18	18.0	145.0	102.0
18	Greece	Stavros Alevrasage	Panayiotis Alevras Stefanos Chandakas	14	14.0	12	12.0	18	18.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	3	3.0	16	16.0	21	21.0	11	11.0	20	~~20.0~~	13	13.0	151.0	107.0
19	Japan	Kazunori Komatsu	Masatoshi Hazama Kazuyuki Hyodo	16	16.0	19	19.0	15	15.0	6	6.0	14	14.0	21	~~21.0~~	17	17.0	12	12.0	21	~~21.0~~	11	11.0	152.0	110.0
20	Hungary	George Wossala	László Kovácsi Károly Vezér	~~DSQ~~	~~23.0~~	14	14.0	19	19.0	12	12.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	10	10.0	20	20.0	13	13.0	18	18.0	20	20.0	172.0	126.0
21	Brazil	Edson, Jr. Araujo	Daniel Glomb Marcelo Reitz	~~DSQ~~	~~23.0~~	17	17.0	20	20.0	~~PMS~~	~~23.0~~	17	17.0	14	14.0	19	19.0	PMS	23.0	19	19.0	6	6.0	181.0	135.0
22	Bahrain	Essa al-Busmait	Khalid al-Sada Ahmed al-Sale	18	18.0	21	21.0	21	21.0	~~DNF~~	~~23.0~~	18	18.0	22	~~22.0~~	22	22.0	17	17.0	22	22.0	21	21.0	205.0	160.0

Legend: DNC – Did not compete; DNF – Did not finish; DSQ – Disqualified; PMS – Premature start; Gender: – male; – female;

The selected teams proceeded to the match race part of the event.

Results after Matchracing

Quarter finals			Semi finals			Final

			1	Germany	3
3	Great Britain	3	3	Great Britain	0
6	Denmark	2				1	01 ! Germany	3
						5	02 ! Russia	0
			2	United States	0
4	Canada	0	5	Russia	3	Third place
5	Russia	3				2	03 ! United States	3
						4	Great Britain	1

Canada (CAN) (5th) vs.

Denmark (DEN) (6th) decided on basis of fleetrace result.

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Solingr during the 1996 Summer Olympics

Conditions at Soling course area

Black: Marinas
Blue: Alpha course
Green: Bravo course
Yellow: Charly course
Red: Delta course

Olympic course ZO.
Fleetrace
.
S(Start) - 1 - 2 - 3 - - 2 - 3 - F(Finish reaching)

Olympic course WD.
Matchracerace
.
S(Start) - 1 - 4G - 1 - F(Finish downwind)

Date	Race	°C		Knot	Meter	Course	Course area
22-JUL-1996	I	30		7	0.4	ZO	Delta
23-JUL-1996	II	29		10	0.8	ZO	Delta
23-JUL-1996	III	29		13	0.8	ZO	Delta
26-JUL-1996	IV	27		7	0.5	ZO	Delta
26-JUL-1996	V	27		10	0.5	ZO	Delta
27-JUL-1996	VI	28		5	0.5	ZO	Delta
27-JUL-1996	VII	29		8	0.6	ZO	Delta
28-JUL-1996	VIII	29		6	0.7	ZO	Delta
29-JUL-1996	IX	29		11	0.6	ZO	Delta
29-JUL-1996	X	30		11	0.6	ZO	Delta
31-JUL-1996	QF	28		10-15	0.6	WD	Delta
1-AUG-1996	SF	28		7	0.5	WD	Delta
2-AUG-1996	SF	26		10	0.7	WD	Delta
2-AUG-1996	PF	28-25	-	5-20	0.6-0.4	WD	Delta
2-AUG-1996	F	27-28	-	10-6	0.6-0.4	WD	Delta

Notes

References

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The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (1997). The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
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