Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 49er
| Men’s 49er at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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Line drawing of the 49er
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| Venue | Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy | ||||||||||||
| Dates | First race: July 30, 2012 Last race: August 10, 2012 |
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| Competitors | 40 from 20 nations | ||||||||||||
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Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen |
 Australia
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Peter Burling Blair Tuke |
 New Zealand
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Allan Nørregaard Peter Lang |
 Denmark
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The Men’s 49er was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Sixteen races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 40 sailors, on 20 boats, from 20 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race.
For the 49er course areas P (Portland),N (Nothe) and W (West) were used. The location (50° 35.19’ N, 02° 26.54’ W) points to the center Portland course area, the location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area and the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area. The target time for the course was 30 minutes for the races as well as the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations.
Legend: DNF – Did not finish; 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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