Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Soling
| Soling at the Games of the XX Olympiad
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Line drawing of the Soling
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| Dates | First race: August 29, 1972 Last race: September 8, 1972 |
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| Competitors | 78 from 26 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 26 | ||||||||||||
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Buddy Melges William Bentsen William Allen |
 United States
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Stig Wennerström Bo Knape Stefan Krook |
 Sweden
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David Miller John Ekels Paul Côté |
 Canada
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The Soling 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. 78 sailors, on 26 boats, from 26 nation competed.
Because of insufficient wind the scheduled race in the Soling 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 Soling only six regattas took place. Also the medal ceremony was also postponed until 8 September.
For the Soling 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: DNS – Did not start; DSQ – Disqualified;
Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result.
Gender: 
– male; 
– female;
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