Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 470

Women’s 470[1] at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Line drawing of the 470
Venue	Qingdao International Sailing Centre
Dates	First race: August 11, 2008 Last race: August 18, 2008
Competitors	38 from 19 nations
Teams	19 boats
Medalists
Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson   Australia   Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout   Netherlands   Fernanda Oliveira Isabel Swan   Brazil

Sailing at the  2008 Summer Olympics
RS:X		men		women
Laser Radial				women
Laser		men
Finn			open
470		men		women
49er			open
Tornado			open
Yngling				women
Star		men

The Men's 470 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. 38 sailors, on 19 boats, from 19 nations competed.^[3] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.^[4]

Race schedule^[1][5]

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Practice race

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Race on Yellow

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Race on Orange

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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
Women’s 470				●	2	2	2	Spare day	2	2	Spare day	●

Course areas and course configurations ^[6]

For the 470 course areas A (Yellow) and D (Orange) 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°1'10"N, 120°28'47"E) points to the center of the 0.75nm radius Orange 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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  60° Trapezoid Outer Course (O)

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  60° 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 but the Women’s 470 competition was executed as scheduled.^[7]

Final results^[8][9]

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Crew	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Race 4		Race 5		Race 6		Race 7		Race 8		Race 9		Race 10		Medalrace		Total	Total – discard
				Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.
	Australia	Elise Rechichi	Tessa Parkinson	2	2.0	2	2.0	4	4.0	1	1.0	9	9.0	4	4.0	2	2.0	5	5.0	3	3.0	2	2.0	9	18.0	52.0	43.0
	Netherlands	Marcelien de Koning	Lobke Berkhout	3	3.0	1	1.0	9	9.0	5	5.0	2	2.0	2	2.0	10	10.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	16	16.0	5	10.0	69.0	53.0
	Brazil	Fernanda Oliveira	Isabel Swan	11	11.0	16	16.0	5	5.0	10	10.0	7	7.0	6	6.0	6	6.0	2	2.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	1	2.0	76.0	60.0
4	Israel	Nike Kornecki	Vered Buskila	8	8.0	13	13.0	1	1.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	19	19.0	3	3.0	1	1.0	11	11.0	15	15.0	2	4.0	85.0	66.0
5	Italy	Giulia Conti	Giovanna Micol	14	14.0	7	7.0	6	6.0	3	3.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	4	4.0	19	19.0	12	12.0	6	6.0	3	6.0	94.0	75.0
6	Great Britain	Christina Bassadone	Saskia Clark	DSQ	20.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	4	4.0	15	15.0	13	13.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	15	15.0	5	5.0	4	8.0	102.0	82.0
7	Czech Republic	Lenka Smidova	Lenka Mrzilkova	6	6.0	4	4.0	12	12.0	11	11.0	11	11.0	5	5.0	11	11.0	11	11.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	7	14.0	95.0	83.0
8	Austria	Sylvia Vogl	Carolina Flatscher	9	9.0	DSQ	20.0	13	13.0	7	7.0	1	1.0	7	7.0	1	1.0	13	13.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	8	16.0	104.0	84.0
9	Germany	Stefanie Rothweiler	Vivien Kussatz	7	7.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	9	9.0	5	5.0	12	12.0	OCS	20.0	8	8.0	8	8.0	12	12.0	6	12.0	110.0	90.0
10	Spain	Natalia Vía Dufresne	Laia Tutzo	4	4.0	5	5.0	2	2.0	6	6.0	13	13.0	10	10.0	13	13.0	17	17.0	2	2.0	17	17.0	10	20.0	109.0	92.0
11	France	Ingrid Petitjean	Gwendolyn Lemaitre	1	1.0	11	11.0	16	16.0	8	8.0	17	17.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	13	13.0	9	9.0	-	-	102.0	85.0
12	United States	Amanda Clark	Sara Mergenthaler	12	12.0	12	12.0	10	10.0	14	14.0	4	4.0	17	17.0	7	7.0	6	6.0	17	17.0	7	7.0	-	-	106.0	89.0
13	Slovenia	Vesna Dekleva	Klara Maucec	DSQ	20.0	3	3.0	8	8.0	16	16.0	12	12.0	3	3.0	15	15.0	18	18.0	14	14.0	3	3.0	-	-	112.0	92.0
14	Japan	Ai Kondo	Naoko Kamata	13	13.0	15	15.0	14	14.0	15	15.0	14	14.0	1	1.0	12	12.0	10	10.0	1	1.0	13	13.0	-	-	108.0	93.0
15	Sweden	Therese Torgersson	Vendela Santen	10	10.0	14	14.0	18	18.0	DSQ	20.0	19	19.0	8	8.0	5	5.0	14	14.0	5	5.0	8	8.0	-	-	121.0	101.0
16	Argentina	Maria Fernanda Sesto	Consuelo Monsegur	16	16.0	18	18.0	17	17.0	12	12.0	10	10.0	16	16.0	14	14.0	4	4.0	10	10.0	14	14.0	-	-	131.0	113.0
17	Switzerland	Emmanuelle Rol	Anne-Sophie Thilo	15	15.0	9	9.0	7	7.0	13	13.0	3	3.0	15	15.0	OCS	20.0	15	15.0	18	18.0	19	19.0	-	-	134.0	114.0
18	China	Wen Yimei	Yu Chunyan	5	5.0	10	10.0	19	19.0	17	17.0	16	16.0	14	14.0	OCS	20.0	12	12.0	16	16.0	10	10.0	-	-	139.0	119.0
19	Singapore	Toh Liying	Deborah Ong Huimin	17	17.0	17	17.0	15	15.0	18	18.0	18	18.0	18	18.0	OCS	20.0	16	16.0	19	19.0	18	18.0	-	-	176.0	156.0

Legend: DSQ – Disqualified; 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.

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Women’s 470 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. Official Report of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games • Volume III Preparation for the Games: New Beijing Great Olympics (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
6. "The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Sailing Competition: Sailing Instructions" (PDF). International Sailing Federation. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
7. "Qingdao Report - Luke Van Der Kamp" (PDF). Team GBR. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
8. Official Results book Part 3 (Sailing) (PDF). Retrieved 21 March 2014.
9. "Sailing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Women's Two Person Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 March 2014.