Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Dragon
| Dragon at the Games of the XX Olympiad
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Line drawing of the Dragon
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| Dates | First race: August 29, 1972 Last race: September 8, 1972 |
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| Competitors | 69 from 23 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 23 | ||||||||||||
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John Bruce Cuneo Thomas Anderson John Shaw |
 Australia
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Paul Borowski Konrad Weichert Karl–Heinz Thun |
 East Germany
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Donald Cohan Charles Horter John Marshall |
 United States
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The Dragon was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics program in Kiel-Schilksee. Seven races were scheduled. Only six races were sailed due to weather conditions. 69 sailors, on 23 boats, from 23 nation competed. It was the last Olympic appearance of the Dragon.
Because of insufficient wind the scheduled race in the Dragon was postponed on 5 September 1972. Due to the interruption of the Games on 6 September 1972, the race was postponed till 7 September. Then the race conditions were unsuitable. Heavy fog and poor wind conditions made it not possible to race until September 8. Finally for the Dragon only six regattas took place. Also the medal ceremony was also postponed until 8 September.
For the Dragon course area A(lpha) was used. The location (54°29'50'’N, 10°22'00'’E) points to the center of the 2 nm radius circle. The distance between mark 1 and 3 was about 2nm.
Legend: DSQ – Disqualified;
Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result.
Gender: 
– male; 
– female;
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