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Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's RS:X

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Dates
  
31 Jul 2012 – 7 Aug 2012

Competitors
  
38

Location
  
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, United Kingdom

Venue
  
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy

The Men's RS:X 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. 38 sailors, on 38 boards, from 38 nations competed. Ten boards qualified for the medal race. The gold medal was won by Dorian van Rijsselberghe who already after the ninth race had accumulated sufficient results to be certain to win the gold medal, as long as he competed in the races.

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Course areas and course configurations

For the RS:X 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 and 20 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations.

Final results

Legend: DNF – Did not finish; DPI – Discretionary penalty imposed; 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.

References

Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's RS:X Wikipedia