Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 470
| Women’s 470 at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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Line drawing of the 470
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| Venue | Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy | ||||||||||||
| Dates | First race: August 3, 2012 Last race: August 10, 2012 |
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| Competitors | 40 from 20 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 20 (boats) | ||||||||||||
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Jo Aleh Polly Powrie |
 New Zealand
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Hannah Mills Saskia Clark |
 Great Britain
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Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout |
 Netherlands
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The Women’s 470 was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, in the 470 dinghy. Eleven 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 470 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: DSQ – Disqualified;
QUA – Qualified for next phase;
Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result.
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