Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Elliott 6m
| Women’s Elliott 6m at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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Line drawing of the Elliott 6m
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| Venue | Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy | ||||||||||||
| Dates | First race: July 29, 2012 Last race: August 5, 2012 |
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| Competitors | 36 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 12 (boats) | ||||||||||||
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Támara Echegoyen Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro |
 Spain
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Olivia Price Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty |
 Australia
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Silja Lehtinen Silja Kanerva Mikaela Wulff |
 Finland
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The Women’s Elliott 6m was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The competition was Match race format. It consisted of a round-robin a quarter finals, semi-finals, petit-final and final series. The top eight crews from the round-robin were seeded into the quarter final.
For the Elliott 6m the majority of racing took place on course area N (Nothe), however some racing also occurred in race area P. The location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area. The target time for the course was 18 minutes. All races were conducted on windward/leeward course configurations of 2 laps.
Legend: DNF – Did not finish; DSQ – Disqualified; PEN – Penalty given by the protest committee;
QUA – Qualified for next phase;
Sail-offs for places 5–8, scheduled for August 9, were cancelled due to low winds. The Round robin results were used for final placement.
A total of 98 matches were sailed:
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