Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Star

The men's Star was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre.[2] Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 32 sailors, on 16 boats, from 16 nations competed.[3] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.[4][5]

Men’s Star[1] at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Star
Venue	Qingdao International Sailing Centre
Dates	First race: 15 August 2008 Last race: 21 August 2008
Competitors	32 from 16 nations
Teams	16 boats
Medalists
Iain Percy Andrew Simpson  Great Britain Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada  Brazil Fredrik Loof Anders Ekstrom  Sweden

Race schedule[1][6]

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Practice race

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Race on Yellow

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Race on Pink

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Medal race on Yellow

Date	August
	7 Thu	8 Fri	9 Sat	10 Sun	11 Mon	12 Tue	13 Wed	14 Thu	15 Fri	16 Sat	17 Sun	18 Mon	19 Tue	20 Wed	21 Thu	22 Fri	23 Sat	24 Sun
Men's Star								●	1	2	1	3	No wind	3	●

Course areas and course configurations [7]

For the Star course areas A (Yellow) and E (Pink) were used. The location (36°1'26"’N, 120°26'52"E) points to the center of the 0.6nm radius Yellow course area and the location (36°2'44"N, 120°28'9"E) points to the center of the 0.75nm radius Pink course area. The target time for the course was about 60 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from several course configurations.

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  Course Areas
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  70° Trapezoid Outer Course (O)
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  70° Trapezoid Inner Course (I)
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  Windward - Leeward Course (W)

Outer courses

• O1: Start – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – Finish
• O2: Start – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – Finish
• O3: Start – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – Finish

Inner courses

• I1: Start – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – Finish
• I2: Start – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – Finish
• I3: Start – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – Finish

Windward-leeward courses

• W2: Start – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – Finish
• W3: Start – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – Finish
• W4: Start – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – Finish

Weather conditions

In the lead up to the Olympics many questioned the choice of Qingdao as a venue with very little predicted wind. During the races the wind was pretty light and quite unpredictable. For the Star competition several races had to be postponed to the next day and the spare day had to be used.[8]

Final results[9][10]

Results of individual races

Pos	Helmsman	Country	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X	MR	Tot	Pts
	Iain Percy Andrew Simpson	Great Britain	7	13^†	3	5	8	2	1	1	2	6	5	58.0	45.0
	Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada	Brazil	10	11^†	6	1	9	10	2	3	3	3	3	64.0	53.0
	Fredrik Lööf Anders Ekström	Sweden	1	4	15^†	3	6	1	8	2	1	7	10	68.0	53.0
4	Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Życki	Poland	5	6	8	2	10	9	3	5	9	13^†	1	72.0	59.0
5	Flavio Marazzi Enrico de Maria	Switzerland	9	7	9	9	5	5	6	11^†	4	1	2	70.0	59.0
6	Xavier Rohart Pascal Rambeau	France	12^†	1	5	4	7	6	9	9	8	2	9	81.0	69.0
7	Marc Pickel Ingo Borkowski	Germany	2	14^†	1	8	3	8	14	10	6	10	4	84.0	70.0
8	Afonso Domingos Bernardo Santos	Portugal	3	3	10	OCS 17^†	13	3	5	7	7	9	6	89.0	72.0
9	Hamish Pepper Carl Williams	New Zealand	4	9	2	11	1	12	11	13^†	5	11	7	93.0	80.0
10	Diego Negri Luigi Viale	Italy	13^†	8	12	7	11	7	7	6	13	5	8	105.0	92.0
11	John Dane III Austin Sperry	United States	8	2	4	12	15	15	16^†	16	10	4		102.0	86.0
12	Hans Spitzauer Christian Nehammer	Austria	14^†	10	11	6	14	4	12	4	12	14		101.0	87.0
13	Peter O'Leary Stephen Milne	Ireland	6	12	7	10	12	13^†	13	8	11	12		104.0	91.0
14	Iain Murray Andrew Palfrey	Australia	11	15^†	13	15	2	11	10	12	14	8		111.0	96.0
15	Marin Lovrović Jr. Siniša Mikuličić	Croatia	15^†	5	14	13	4	14	4	14	15	15		113.0	98.0
16	Li Hongquan Wang He	China	16^†	16	16	14	16	16	15	15	16	16		156.0	140.0

Scoring system: low-point system;
Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNE – Non excludable disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; DPI – Discretionary penalty imposed; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Star during the 2008 Summer Olympics

Further reading

• "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
• "Beijing 2008". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.

References

1. Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume II Ceremonies and Competitions: Celebration of the Games (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
2. Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume I Bid Documents and Analysis: Passion behind the Bid (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
3. The 2008 Olympic scoring system was used.
4. For the medal race the top ten boats qualified. Each position scored double points. All medal races were sailed on course area Yellow in front of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre.
5. "Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics: Two Person Keelboat (Star), Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
6. Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume III Preparation for the Games: New Beijing Great Olympics (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
7. "The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Sailing Competition: Sailing Instructions" (PDF). International Sailing Federation. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
8. "Qingdao Report - Luke Van Der Kamp" (PDF). Team GBR. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
9. Official Results book Part 3 (Sailing) (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
10. "Sailing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Men's Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2014.