# Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's RS:X

The Men's RS:X 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. 35 sailors, on 35 boards, from 35 nations competed. Ten boards qualified for the medal race.

## Race schedule

| ● | Practice race | ● | Race on Yellow | ● | Race on Red | ● | 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 RS:X | | | | ● | 2 | 2 | Spare day | No wind | 1 | No wind | 2 | 2 | 1 | ● | | | | |

## Course areas and course configurations

For the RS:X course areas A (Yellow) and B (Red) 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°2'21"N, 120°25'32"E) points to the center of the 0.6nm radius Red course area. The target time for the course was about 30–35 minutes for the races and 20 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)
* Windward-Leeward Slalom Course (WS)

### 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

### Windward-Leeward Slalom courses

* WS1: START – 1 – 4s/4p – S1 – S2 – S3 – FINISH
* WS2: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – S1 – S2 – S3 – FINISH
* WS3: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – S1 – S2 – S3 – 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. Due to lack of wind (< 1.6 knots) two racing days had to be postponed.

## Final results

Results of individual races :
| Pos | Helmsman | Country | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | MR | Tot | Pts |
| | Tom Ashley | New Zealand | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 32$^†$ | 3 | 84.0 | 52.0 |
| | Julien Bontemps | France | 13$^†$ | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 66.0 | 53.0 |
| | Shahar Tzuberi | Israel | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 19$^†$ | 18 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 77.0 | 58.0 |
| 4 | Nick Dempsey | Great Britain | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 17$^†$ | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 77.0 | 66.0 |
| 5 | Ricardo Santos | Brazil | 12 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 33$^†$ | 6 | 110.0 | 77.0 |
| 6 | Chan King Yin | Hong Kong | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 33$^†$ | 21 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 117.0 | 84.0 |
| 7 | Wang Aichen | China | 2 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 22$^†$ | 14 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 117.0 | 95.0 |
| 8 | Nikolaos Kaklamanakis | Greece | 10 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 7 | OCS 22 | 112.0 | 97.0 |
| 9 | Iván Pastor | Spain | 8 | 13 | 18$^†$ | 18 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 127.0 | 109.0 |
| 10 | Makoto Tomizawa | Japan | 6 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 23 | 8 | DSQ 36$^†$ | 12 | 2 | 9 | 152.0 | 116.0 |
| 11 | João Rodrigues | Portugal | 18 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 19$^†$ | | 120.0 | 101.0 |
| 12 | Maksym Oberemko | Ukraine | 3 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 24 | DSQ 36$^†$ | 11 | 12 | | 139.0 | 103.0 |
| 13 | Andreas Cariolou | Cyprus | 7 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 11 | 19$^†$ | 14 | 10 | | 130.0 | 111.0 |
| 14 | Richard Stauffacher | Switzerland | 9 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 17 | 22$^†$ | | 133.0 | 111.0 |
| 15 | Casper Bouman | Netherlands | 20 | 27$^†$ | 21 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 21 | | 139.0 | 112.0 |
| 16 | Przemysław Miarczyński | Poland | 17 | 21 | 27$^†$ | 20 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 18 | | 143.0 | 116.0 |
| 17 | David Mier | Mexico | 16 | 5 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 29$^†$ | 23 | 21 | 4 | 25 | | 158.0 | 129.0 |
| 18 | Lee Tae-hoon | South Korea | 22$^†$ | 14 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 9 | | 158.0 | 133.0 |
| 19 | Áron Gádorfalvi | Hungary | 15 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 24 | 26$^†$ | 10 | 9 | 18 | 13 | | 162.0 | 136.0 |
| 20 | Fabian Heidegger | Italy | 14 | 12 | 8 | 17 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 24$^†$ | 21 | 17 | | 162.0 | 138.0 |
| 21 | Mariano Reutemann | Argentina | 25 | 18 | 19 | 23$^†$ | 25 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 20 | | 193.0 | 168.0 |
| 22 | Ertuğrul İçingir | Turkey | DSQ 36$^†$ | 28 | 15 | 19 | 27 | 19 | 12 | 23 | 23 | 6 | | 208.0 | 172.0 |
| 23 | Zachary Plavsic | Canada | 23 | 25 | 22 | 21 | 30$^†$ | 12 | 26 | 12 | 29 | 11 | | 211.0 | 181.0 |
| 24 | Jonas Kældsø Poulsen | Denmark | 28 | 26 | 30 | 29 | 35$^†$ | 4 | 14 | 13 | 34 | 23 | | 236.0 | 201.0 |
| 25 | Ek Boonsawad | Thailand | 19 | 15 | 28 | 25 | 19 | 24 | 33$^†$ | 20 | 27 | 26 | | 236.0 | 203.0 |
| 26 | Benjamin Barger | United States | 21 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 32 | 25 | 17 | 25 | 31$^†$ | | 249.0 | 217.0 |
| 27 | Oka Sulaksana | Indonesia | 24 | 24 | 23 | 27 | 22 | 31 | 28 | 30 | DNF 36$^†$ | 16 | | 261.0 | 225.0 |
| 28 | Mikalai Zhukavets | Belarus | 27 | 23 | 26 | 24 | 29 | 21 | 32$^†$ | 26 | 26 | 27 | | 261.0 | 229.0 |
| 29 | Carlos Julio Flores | Venezuela | 32 | 33 | 33 | 35$^†$ | 21 | 22 | 27 | 28 | 22 | 14 | | 267.0 | 232.0 |
| 30 | Patrik Pollák | Slovakia | 26 | 30 | 25 | 30 | 23 | 28 | 31$^†$ | 29 | 28 | 24 | | 274.0 | 243.0 |
| 31 | Chang Hao | Chinese Taipei | 31 | 29 | 31 | 28 | 28 | 20 | 34 | DNF 36$^†$ | 24 | 35 | | 296.0 | 260.0 |
| 32 | Luka Mratović | Croatia | 29 | 32 | 34$^†$ | 33 | 34 | 34 | 20 | 22 | 32 | 29 | | 299.0 | 265.0 |
| 33 | Johannes Ahun | Estonia | 34$^†$ | 34 | 32 | 34 | 31 | 30 | 29 | 25 | 30 | 28 | | 307.0 | 273.0 |
| 34 | Alexey Tokarev | Russia | 33 | 31 | 35$^†$ | 32 | 32 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 33 | 30 | | 314.0 | 279.0 |
| 35 | Santiago Grillo | Colombia | 30 | 35 | 29 | 31 | 33 | 35 | 35 | DNF 36$^†$ | 31 | 34 | | 314.0 | 279.0 |
Scoring system: low-point system;
Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s); 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;