Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Finn

Mixed Finn^[1]

at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

Line drawing of the Finn

Venue

Qingdao International Sailing Centre

Dates

First race: August 9, 2008
Last race: August 16, 2008

Competitors

26 from 26 nations

Medalists

01 !	Ben Ainslie	Great Britain
02 !	Zach Railey	United States
03 !	Guillaume Florent	France

Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics
RS:X	men		women
Laser Radial			women
Laser	men
Finn		open
470	men		women
49er		open
Tornado		open
Yngling			women
Star	men

The Finn was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre.^[2] Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled. Only nine races were completed including the medal race due to lack of wind. 26 sailors, on 26 boats, from 26 nations competed.^[3] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.^[4]

Race schedule^[1]^[5]

●	Practice race	●	Race on Yellow	●	Race on Pink	●	Medal race on Yellow

Date	August
Date	7 Thu	8 Fri	9 Sat	10 Sun	11 Mon	12 Tue	13 Wed	14 Thu	15 Fri	16 Sat	17 Sun	18 Mon	19 Tue	20 Wed	21 Thu	22 Fri	23 Sat	24 Sun
Mixed Finn	●		2	2	2	Spare day	1	No wind	1	No wind	●

Course areas and course configurations ^[6]

For the Finn course areas A (Yellow) and E (Pink) were used. The location (36°2'23"N, 120°23'12"E) points to the center of the 0.6 nm radius Yellow course area and the location (36°2'44"N, 120°28'9"E) points to the center of the 0.75 nm radius Pink course area. The target time for the course was about 75 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from several course configurations.

Course Areas
70° Trapezoid Outer Course (O)
70° Trapezoid Inner Course (I)
Windward - Leeward Course (W)

Outer courses

O1: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH
O2: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH
O3: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH

Inner courses

I1: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH
I2: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH
I3: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH

Windward-Leeward courses

W2: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – FINISH
W3: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – FINISH
W4: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – FINISH

Weather conditions

In the lead up to the Olympics many questioned the choice of Qingdao as a venue with very little predicted wind. During the races the wind was pretty light and quite unpredictable. Due to lack of wind (< 1.6 knots) one racing day had to be cancelled and the medal race needed to be postponed to the next day.^[7]

Final results^[8]^[9]

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Race 4		Race 5		Race 6		Race 7		Race 8		Medalrace		Total	Total – discard
Rank	Country	Helmsman	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Total	Total – discard
01 !	Great Britain	Ben Ainslie	10	~~10.0~~	1	1.0	4	4.0	1	1.0	1	1.0	10	10.0	2	2.0	2	2.0	1	2.0	33.0	23.0
02 !	United States	Zach Railey	2	2.0	5	5.0	2	2.0	2	2.0	7	7.0	8	8.0	7	7.0	19	~~19.0~~	6	12.0	64.0	45.0
03 !	France	Guillaume Florent	5	5.0	8	8.0	20	20.0	3	3.0	4	4.0	6	6.0	4	4.0	21	~~21.0~~	4	8.0	79.0	58.0
4	Sweden	Daniel Birgmark	14	14.0	17	~~17.0~~	1	1.0	6	6.0	12	12.0	3	3.0	3	3.0	5	5.0	7	14.0	75.0	58.0
5	Canada	Christopher Cook	8	8.0	3	3.0	7	7.0	10	10.0	23	~~23.0~~	5	5.0	15	15.0	3	3.0	8	16.0	90.0	67.0
6	Denmark	Jonas Høgh-Christensen	16	16.0	6	6.0	12	12.0	16	16.0	25	~~25.0~~	4	4.0	5	5.0	7	7.0	2	4.0	95.0	70.0
7	Slovenia	Gašper Vinčec	9	9.0	11	11.0	6	6.0	5	5.0	3	3.0	13	~~13.0~~	8	8.0	10	10.0	10	20.0	85.0	72.0
8	Croatia	Ivan Kljaković-Gašpić	7	7.0	10	10.0	10	10.0	8	8.0	16	~~16.0~~	9	9.0	1	1.0	13	13.0	9	18.0	92.0	76.0
9	Spain	Rafa Trujillo	12	12.0	4	4.0	3	3.0	14	14.0	20	20.0	20	20.0	~~OCS~~	~~27.0~~	1	1.0	3	6.0	107.0	80.0
10	Poland	Rafal Szukiel	3	3.0	2	2.0	19	19.0	12	12.0	10	10.0	14	14.0	22	~~22.0~~	12	12.0	5	10.0	104.0	82.0
11	Italy	Giorgio Poggi	17	17.0	7	7.0	14	14.0	21	~~21.0~~	6	6.0	12	12.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	-	-	95.0	74.0
12	New Zealand	Dan Slater	21	~~21.0~~	19	19.0	18	18.0	4	4.0	9	9.0	7	7.0	13	13.0	6	6.0	-	-	97.0	76.0
13	Brazil	Eduardo Couto	6	6.0	16	16.0	~~DNF~~	~~27.0~~	7	7.0	2	2.0	17	17.0	14	14.0	OCS	27.0	-	-	116.0	89.0
14	Netherlands	Pieter-Jan Postma	19	19.0	15	15.0	16	16.0	22	~~22.0~~	15	15.0	2	2.0	10	10.0	16	16.0	-	-	115.0	93.0
15	Greece	Emilios Papathanasiou	1	1.0	~~DNF~~	~~27.0~~	5	5.0	DNE	27.0	18	18.0	15	15.0	DNE	27.0	8	8.0	-	-	128.0	101.0
16	Australia	Anthony Nossiter	11	11.0	22	~~22.0~~	8	8.0	17	17.0	13	13.0	21	21.0	11	11.0	20	20.0	-	-	123.0	101.0
17	Russia	Eduard Skornyakov	24	~~24.0~~	20	20.0	17	17.0	13	13.0	8	8.0	18	18.0	12	12.0	14	14.0	-	-	126.0	102.0
18	Finland	Tapio Nirkko	18	18.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	19	19.0	22	~~22.0~~	16	16.0	22	22.0	-	-	124.0	102.0
19	Norway	Peer Moberg	23	23.0	~~DSQ~~	~~27.0~~	11	11.0	19	19.0	22	22.0	1	1.0	DSQ	27.0	4	4.0	-	-	134.0	107.0
20	Turkey	Ali Kemal Tufekc	20	20.0	21	~~21.0~~	13	13.0	18	18.0	14	14.0	19	19.0	6	6.0	17	17.0	-	-	128.0	107.0
21	Ireland	Tim Goodbody	22	22.0	13	13.0	15	15.0	15	15.0	17	17.0	16	16.0	21	~~21.0~~	15	15.0	-	-	134.0	112.0
22	Cyprus	Haris Papadopoulos	13	13.0	18	18.0	21	21.0	11	11.0	24	24.0	11	11.0	17	17.0	~~OCS~~	~~27.0~~	-	-	142.0	115.0
23	India	Nachhatar Singh Johal	4	4.0	24	~~24.0~~	23	23.0	24	24.0	11	11.0	24	24.0	18	18.0	24	24.0	-	-	152.0	128.0
24	China	Zhang Peng	25	25.0	23	23.0	24	24.0	20	20.0	5	5.0	26	~~26.0~~	23	23.0	11	11.0	-	-	157.0	131.0
25	Czech Republic	Michael Maier	15	15.0	14	14.0	22	22.0	25	~~25.0~~	21	21.0	23	23.0	19	19.0	23	23.0	-	-	162.0	137.0
26	Venezuela	Johnny Senen Bilbao Bande	26	~~26.0~~	12	12.0	25	25.0	23	23.0	26	26.0	25	25.0	20	20.0	18	18.0	-	-	175.0	149.0

Legend: DNE – Non excludable disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; DSQ – Disqualified; OCS – On the course side of the starting line;
QUA – Qualified for next phase;
Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result.
Gender: – male; – female;

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Finn during the 2008 Summer Olympics

References

1 2 Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume II Ceremonies and Competitions: Celebration of the Games (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
↑ Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume I Bid Documents and Analysis: Passion behind the Bid (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
↑ The 2008 Olympic scoring system was used.
↑ For the medal race the top ten boats qualified. Each position scored double points. All medal races were sailed on course area Yellow in front of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre.
↑ Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume III Preparation for the Games: New Beijing Great Olympics (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
↑ "The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Sailing Competition: Sailing Instructions" (PDF). International Sailing Federation. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
↑ "Qingdao Report - Luke Van Der Kamp" (PDF). Team GBR. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
↑ Official Results book Part 3 (Sailing) (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
↑ "Sailing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Mixed One Person Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 March 2014.

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