# Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 470

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 on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.

## Schedule

| ● | Practice race | ● | Race on Portland | ● | Race on Nothe | ● | Race on West | ● | Race on South | ● | Medal race on Nothe |
| Date | July | July | July | July | July | July | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August |
| Date | 26 Thu | 27 Fri | 28 Sat | 29 Sun | 30 Mon | 31 Tue | 1 Wed | 2 Thu | 3 Fri | 3 Fri | 4 Sat | 5 Sun | 6 Mon | 7 Tue | 8 Wed | 9 Thu | 10 Fri | 11 Sat | 12 Sun |
| Women's 470 | | | | | | | | ● | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Spare day | 2 | 2 | Spare day | MR | | |

## Course areas and course configurations

For the 470 course areas Portland, Nothe, West, and 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.

## Results

Results of individual races :
| Pos | Helmsman | Country | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | MR | Tot | Pts |
| | Jo Aleh Polly Powrie | New Zealand | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 18$^†$ | 2 | 53.0 | 35.0 |
| | Hannah Mills Saskia Clark | Great Britain | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8$^†$ | 2 | 18 | 59.0 | 51.0 |
| | Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout | Netherlands | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 20$^†$ | 6 | 12 | 84.0 | 64.0 |
| 4 | Camille Lecointre Mathilde Géron | France | 10 | 17$^†$ | 1 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 82.0 | 65.0 |
| 5 | Giulia Conti Giovanna Micol | Italy | 8 | 10 | 18$^†$ | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 91.0 | 73.0 |
| 6 | Fernanda Oliveira Ana Barbachan | Brazil | 11 | 5 | 14$^†$ | 1 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 89.0 | 75.0 |
| 7 | Elise Rechichi Belinda Stowell | Australia | 14 | 7 | 3 | DSQ 21$^†$ | 9 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 104.0 | 83.0 |
| 8 | Kathrin Kadelbach Friederike Belcher | Germany | 19$^†$ | 2 | 7 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 103.0 | 84.0 |
| 9 | Amanda Clark Sarah Lihan | United States | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 20$^†$ | 3 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 20 | 118.0 | 98.0 |
| 10 | Tara Pacheco Berta Betanzos | Spain | 15 | 14 | 8 | 16$^†$ | 13 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 117.0 | 101.0 |
| 11 | Wang Xiaoli Huang Xufeng | China | 18 | 18 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 19$^†$ | 2 | 17 | 1 | 12 | | 116.0 | 97.0 |
| 12 | Agnieszka Skrzypulec Jolanta Ogar | Poland | 13 | 13 | 20$^†$ | 17 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 10 | | 118.0 | 98.0 |
| 13 | María Fernanda Sesto Consuelo Monsegur | Argentina | 16 | 19$^†$ | 19 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 3 | | 117.0 | 98.0 |
| 14 | Ai Kondo Wakako Tabata | Japan | 9 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 13 | DSQ 21$^†$ | 13 | 8 | | 124.0 | 103.0 |
| 15 | Gil Cohen Vered Bouskila | Israel | 3 | DSQ 21$^†$ | 10 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 17 | | 126.0 | 105.0 |
| 16 | Henriette Koch Lene Sommer | Denmark | 5 | 12 | 16$^†$ | 10 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 15 | | 122.0 | 106.0 |
| 17 | Enia Ninčević Romana Župan | Croatia | 4 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 20$^†$ | 11 | 8 | 19 | 19 | 14 | | 135.0 | 115.0 |
| 18 | Tina Mrak Teja Černe | Slovenia | 12 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 17$^†$ | 17 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 16 | | 144.0 | 127.0 |
| 19 | Lisa Ericson Astrid Gabrielsson | Sweden | 17 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 15 | 19 | 12 | 18 | 20$^†$ | | 148.0 | 128.0 |
| 20 | Lara Vadlau Eva-Maria Schimak | Austria | 20$^†$ | 15 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 20 | 18 | 10 | 19 | | 163.0 | 143.0 |
Scoring system: low-point system; Source: Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s); DSQ – Disqualified; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;