# Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's RS:X

The men's RS:X was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 38 sailors, on 38 boards, from 38 nations competed. Ten boards qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points. The gold medal was won by Dorian van Rijsselberghe who already after the ninth race had accumulated sufficient results to be certain to win the gold medal, as long as he competed in the races.

## Schedule

| ● | Practice race | ● | Race on Portland | ● | Race on Nothe | ● | Race on West | ● | Medal race on Nothe |
| Date | July | July | July | July | July | July | 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 | 4 Sat | 5 Sun | 6 Mon | 7 Tue | 8 Wed | 9 Thu | 10 Fri | 11 Sat | 12 Sun |
| Men's RS:X | | | | | ● | 2 | 2 | 2 | Spare day | 2 | 2 | Spare day | MR | | | | | |

## Course areas and course configurations

For the RS:X course areas Portland, Nothe, and West 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 and the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area. The target time for the course was 30 minutes for the races and 20 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 |
| | Dorian van Rijsselberghe | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | DNF 39$^†$ | 2 | 54.0 | 15.0 |
| | Nick Dempsey | Great Britain | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 10$^†$ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 51.0 | 41.0 |
| | Przemysław Miarczyński | Poland | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 13$^†$ | 3 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 73.0 | 60.0 |
| 4 | Toni Wilhelm | Germany | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 15$^†$ | 13 | 18 | 79.0 | 64.0 |
| 5 | Julien Bontemps | France | 23$^†$ | 14 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 93.0 | 70.0 |
| 6 | Byron Kokkalanis | Greece | 4 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 16$^†$ | 15 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 93.0 | 77.0 |
| 7 | JP Tobin | New Zealand | 15 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 17$^†$ | 17 | 16 | 113.0 | 96.0 |
| 8 | Zachary Plavsic | Canada | 6 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 29$^†$ | 20 | 129.0 | 100.0 |
| 9 | Ricardo Santos | Brazil | 14 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 14 | 22$^†$ | 4 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 10 | 135.0 | 113.0 |
| 10 | Richard Stauffacher | Switzerland | 10 | 27$^†$ | 14 | 15 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 148.0 | 127.0 |
| 11 | Mariano Reutemann | Argentina | 16 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 20$^†$ | 14 | 7 | | 136.0 | 116.0 |
| 12 | Juozas Bernotas | Lithuania | 9 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 27$^†$ | 27 | | 147.0 | 120.0 |
| 13 | Ho Tsun Andy Leung | Hong Kong | 11 | 18 | 28$^†$ | 12 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 21 | | 153.0 | 125.0 |
| 14 | João Rodrigues | Portugal | 20 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 23 | 7 | 25$^†$ | 22 | 20 | 3 | | 156.0 | 131.0 |
| 15 | Lee Tae-hoon | South Korea | 8 | 6 | 21 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 21 | 13 | 31$^†$ | 19 | | 170.0 | 139.0 |
| 16 | Iván Pastor | Spain | 22 | 24 | 20 | OCS 37$^†$ | 19 | 25 | 8 | 25 | 2 | 5 | | 189.0 | 150.0 |
| 17 | Andreas Cariolou | Cyprus | 13 | 26 | 10 | 27 | 11 | 30$^†$ | 16 | 12 | 12 | 23 | | 180.0 | 150.0 |
| 18 | Wang Aichen | China | 21 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 3 | 23 | 10 | 27$^†$ | 22 | 14 | | 180.0 | 153.0 |
| 19 | Shahar Tzuberi | Israel | 12 | 8 | 17 | 10 | BFD 39$^†$ | 12 | 35 | 34 | 26 | 1 | | 194.0 | 155.0 |
| 20 | Dmitry Polishchuk | Russia | 17 | 5 | 19 | 24 | 27 | 6 | 15 | 26 | DNF 39$^†$ | 28 | | 206.0 | 167.0 |
| 21 | Luka Mratović | Croatia | 24 | 19 | 26 | 20 | 22 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 36$^†$ | | 206.0 | 170.0 |
| 22 | Robert Willis | United States | 7 | 10 | 11 | 25 | BFD 39$^†$ | 28 | 24 | 33 | 11 | 30 | | 218.0 | 179.0 |
| 23 | Maksym Oberemko | Ukraine | 36$^†$ | 35 | 16 | 28 | 17 | 31 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 11 | | 217.0 | 181.0 |
| 24 | Sebastian Wang-Hansen | Norway | 19 | 17 | 31 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 25 | 32$^†$ | | 217.0 | 185.0 |
| 25 | Áron Gádorfalvi | Hungary | 34 | 33 | DNF 39$^†$ | 22 | 7 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 3 | 25 | | 226.0 | 187.0 |
| 26 | Yoan Kolev | Bulgaria | 29 | 31 | DNE 39 | 16 | 20 | 35$^†$ | 26 | 19 | 19 | 8 | | 242.0 | 207.0 |
| 27 | Mikalai Zhukavets | Belarus | 26 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 26 | 16 | 27 | 21 | DNF 39$^†$ | 33 | | 247.0 | 208.0 |
| 28 | Makoto Tomizawa | Japan | 25 | 25 | 25 | 29 | 24 | 26 | 34$^†$ | 30 | 21 | 4 | | 243.0 | 209.0 |
| 29 | Sebastian Fleischer | Denmark | 18 | 28 | 24 | 23 | 29$^†$ | 29 | 29 | 15 | 28 | 26 | | 249.0 | 220.0 |
| 30 | Johannes Ahun | Estonia | 27 | 20 | 22 | DPI 31 | 31 | 14 | 22 | 28 | DNF 39$^†$ | 35 | | 270.0 | 231.0 |
| 31 | Daniel Flores | Venezuela | 37$^†$ | 37 | 29 | 31 | 30 | 24 | 32 | 29 | 23 | 16 | | 289.0 | 252.0 |
| 32 | David Mier | Mexico | 32 | 27 | 30 | 35$^†$ | 28 | 27 | 28 | 32 | 30 | 20 | | 289.0 | 254.0 |
| 33 | Ek Boonsawad | Thailand | 28 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 21 | 32 | 31 | 23 | DNF 39$^†$ | 34 | | 293.0 | 254.0 |
| 34 | Federico Esposito | Italy | 31 | 30 | 33 | 30 | 32 | 36$^†$ | 33 | 35 | 29 | 15 | | 305.0 | 269.0 |
| 35 | Chang Hao | Chinese Taipei | 33 | 36 | 35 | 36 | 33 | 33 | 37$^†$ | 37 | 24 | 22 | | 326.0 | 289.0 |
| 36 | Karel Lavický | Czech Republic | 30 | 29 | 32 | 34 | BFD 39$^†$ | 34 | 36 | 31 | DNF 39 | 31 | | 335.0 | 296.0 |
| 37 | Santiago Grillo | Colombia | 35 | 34 | 34 | 33 | BFD 39$^†$ | 37 | 30 | 36 | DNF 39 | 24 | | 341.0 | 302.0 |
| 38 | Ahmed Habash | Egypt | 38 | 38 | 36 | 37 | 34 | 38 | 38 | 38 | DNF 39$^†$ | 37 | | 373.0 | 334.0 |
Scoring system: low-point system; Source: 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;