# 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. Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 32 sailors, on 16 boats, from 16 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race.

## Race schedule

Sources:
| ● | Practice race | ● | Race on Yellow | ● | Race on Pink | ● | Medal race on Yellow |
| Date | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August | August |
| Date | 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

Source:
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.
* Course Areas
* 70° Trapezoid Outer Course (O)
* 70° Trapezoid Inner Course (I)
* 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.

## Final results

Sources:
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;