Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Tornado

Mixed Tornado[1] at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Tornado
Venue	Qingdao International Sailing Centre
Dates	First race: August 15, 2008 Last race: August 21, 2008
Competitors	30 from 15 nations
Teams	15 boats
Medalists
Antón Paz Fernando Echavarri   Spain   Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby   Australia   Santiago Lange Carlos Espínola   Argentina

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 Mixed Tornado 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. 30 sailors, on 15 boats, from 15 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 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
Mixed Tornado								●	1	2	1	3	No wind	3	●

Course areas and course configurations ^[6]

For the Tornado 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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  Windward - Leeward Course (W)

Windward-leeward courses

• W2: Start – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – Finish
• W3: Start – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – Finish
• W4: Start – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – 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 Tornado competition several races had to be postponed to the next day and the spare day had to be used.^[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.
	Spain	Fernando Echavarri	Antón Paz	1	1.0	6	6.0	1	1.0	4	4.0	7	7.0	13	13.0	1	1.0	7	7.0	1	1.0	8	8.0	4	8.0	57.0	44.0
	Australia	Darren Bundock	Glenn Ashby	5	5.0	4	4.0	3	3.0	1	1.0	5	5.0	9	9.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	5	10.0	58.0	49.0
	Argentina	Santiago Lange	Carlos Espínola	13	13.0	1	1.0	1	1.0	12	12.0	4	4.0	6	6.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	6	12.0	69.0	56.0
4	Canada	Oskar Johansson	Kevin Stittle	8	8.0	3	3.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	15	15.0	11	11.0	12	12.0	2	2.0	2	2.0	2	4.0	76.0	61.0
5	Netherlands	Mitch Booth	Pim Nieuwenhuis	3	3.0	13	13.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	10	10.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	11	11.0	10	10.0	3	6.0	77.0	64.0
6	Great Britain	Leigh McMillan	Will Howden	6	6.0	8	8.0	13	13.0	8	8.0	14	14.0	7	7.0	7	7.0	2	2.0	3	3.0	12	12.0	1	2.0	82.0	68.0
7	Italy	Francesco Marcolini	Edoardo Bianchi	15	15.0	9	9.0	4	4.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	4	4.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	8	8.0	6	6.0	8	16.0	89.0	74.0
8	Germany	Johannes Polgar	Florian Spalteholz	10	10.0	7	7.0	11	11.0	5	5.0	6	6.0	1	1.0	5	5.0	13	13.0	4	4.0	3	3.0	22	22.0	87.0	74.0
9	Austria	Roman Hagara	Hans Peter Steinacher	12	12.0	10	10.0	14	14.0	10	10.0	11	11.0	3	3.0	3	3.0	9	9.0	5	5.0	5	5.0	7	14.0	96.0	82.0
10	Greece	Iordanis Paschalidis	Konstantinos Trigonis	2	2.0	5	5.0	12	12.0	7	7.0	2	2.0	12	12.0	4	4.0	10	10.0	6	6.0	13	13.0	22	22.0	95.0	82.0
11	France	Xavier Revil	Christophe Espagnon	7	7.0	2	2.0	10	10.0	DNC	16.0	9	9.0	10	10.0	10	10.0	4	4.0	10	10.0	7	7.0	-	-	85.0	69.0
12	Belgium	Carolijn Brouwer	Sébastien Godefroid	11	11.0	11	11.0	5	5.0	6	6.0	3	3.0	8	8.0	13	13.0	6	6.0	DNF	16.0	9	9.0	-	-	88.0	72.0
13	Ukraine	Pavlo Kalynchev	Andriy Shafranyuk	4	4.0	15	15.0	6	6.0	13	13.0	15	15.0	11	11.0	12	12.0	14	14.0	13	13.0	11	11.0	-	-	114.0	99.0
14	China	Luo Youjia	Chen Xiuke	9	9.0	14	14.0	OCS	16.0	DNF	16.0	13	13.0	5	5.0	14	14.0	5	5.0	12	12.0	14	14.0	-	-	118.0	102.0
15	United States	John Lovell	Charlie Ogletree	14	14.0	12	12.0	7	7.0	11	11.0	12	12.0	14	14.0	15	15.0	15	15.0	14	14.0	15	15.0	-	-	129.0	114.0

Legend: DNC – Did not compete; DNF – Did not finish; 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 Tornado 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: Mixed Multihull". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 March 2014.