# Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Tornado

The Mixed Tornado 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. 30 sailors, on 15 boats, from 15 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race.

## Race schedule

| ● | 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 |
| Mixed Tornado | | | | | | | | ● | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | No wind | 3 | ● | | | |

## Course areas and course configurations

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.
* Course Areas
* 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.

## Final results

| Rank | Country | Helmsman | Crew | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Race 3 | Race 4 | Race 4 | Race 5 | Race 5 | Race 6 | Race 6 | Race 7 | Race 7 | Race 8 | Race 8 | Race 9 | Race 9 | Race 10 | Race 10 | Medalrace | Medalrace | Total | Total – discard |
| Rank | Country | Helmsman | Crew | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Pos. | Pts. | Total | Total – discard |
| | Spain | Fernando Echávarri | 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 Trigkonis | 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:   – Qualified for next phase; DNC – Did not come to the starting area; DNF – Did not finish; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result.