Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Yngling
| Women's Yngling at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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Line drawing of the Yngling
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| Venue | Qingdao International Sailing Centre | ||||||||||||
| Dates | First race: August 9, 2008 Last race: August 17, 2008 |
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| Competitors | 30 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 15 boats | ||||||||||||
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Sarah Ayton Sarah Webb Pippa Wilson |
 Great Britain
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Mandy Mulder Annemieke Bes Merel Witteveen |
 Netherlands
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Sofia Bekatorou Virginia Kravarioti Sofia Papadopoulou |
 Greece
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The Women's Yngling was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre. Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled. Only nine races were completed including the medal race due to lack of wind. 30 sailors, on 15 boats, from 15 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race.
For the Yngling course areas A (Yellow) and E (Pink) were used. The location (36°1'26"’N, 120°26'52"E) points to the center of the 0.6nm radius Yellow course area and the location (36°2'44"N, 120°28'9"E) points to the center of the 0.75nm radius Pink course area. The target time for the course was about 60 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from several course configurations.
Course Areas
60° Trapezoid Outer Course (O)
60° Trapezoid Inner Course (I)
Windward - Leeward Course (W)
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.
Legend: 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.
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