Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser
| Men's Laser at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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Line drawing of the Laser
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| Venue | Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy | ||||||||||||
| Dates | First race: July 30, 2012 Last race: August 6, 2012 |
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| Competitors | 49 from 49 nations | ||||||||||||
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Tom Slingsby |
 Australia
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Pavlos Kontides |
 Cyprus
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Rasmus Myrgren |
 Sweden
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The Men's Laser was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 49 sailors, on 49 boats, from 49 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race.
For the Laser Radial course areas P (Portland), N (Nothe), W (West) and S (South) 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, the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area and the location (50° 35.71’ N 02° 22.08’ W) points to the center of the South course area. The target time for the course was 60 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations.
Legend: BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; DPI – Discretionary penalty imposed; DSQ – Disqualified;
QUA – Qualified for next phase;
Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result.
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