# Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 49er

The men's 49er was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Sixteen 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 | ● | 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 49er | | | | ● | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Spare day | 2 | 2 | Spare day | MR | | | | |

## Course areas and course configurations

For the 49er 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 as well as 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 | XI | XII | XIII | XIV | XV | MR | Tot | Pts |
| | Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen | Australia | 8 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10$^†$ | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 66.0 | 56.0 |
| | Peter Burling Blair Tuke | New Zealand | 9 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15$^†$ | 6 | 6 | 4 | 95.0 | 80.0 |
| | Allan Nørregaard Peter Lang | Denmark | 2 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 16$^†$ | 15 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 130.0 | 114.0 |
| 4 | Nico Delle Karth Nikolaus Resch | Austria | 10 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 19$^†$ | 4 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 137.0 | 118.0 |
| 5 | Stevie Morrison Ben Rhodes | Great Britain | 12 | 12 | 3 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 20$^†$ | 13 | 3 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 144.0 | 124.0 |
| 6 | Emmanuel Dyen Stéphane Christidis | France | 1 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 10 | OCS 21$^†$ | 2 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 148.0 | 127.0 |
| 7 | Lauri Lehtinen Kalle Bask | Finland | 19$^†$ | 18 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 20 | 148.0 | 129.0 |
| 8 | Bernardo Freitas Francisco Andrade | Portugal | 7 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 15$^†$ | 14 | 149.0 | 134.0 |
| 9 | Giuseppe Angilella Gianfranco Sibello | Italy | 14 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 13 | 18$^†$ | 9 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 166.0 | 148.0 |
| 10 | Jonas von Geijer Niclas Düring | Sweden | 5 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 19$^†$ | 6 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 172.0 | 153.0 |
| 11 | Tobias Schadewaldt Hannes Baumann | Germany | 17 | 5 | 20$^†$ | 19 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 8 | | 162.0 | 142.0 |
| 12 | Iker Martínez de Lizarduy Xabier Fernández | Spain | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 18$^†$ | 3 | 15 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 12 | | 164.0 | 146.0 |
| 13 | Łukasz Przybytek Paweł Kołodziński | Poland | 11 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 18$^†$ | 13 | | 164.0 | 146.0 |
| 14 | Ryan Seaton Matt McGovern | Ireland | 4 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 19$^†$ | 11 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 13 | 16 | 16 | | 168.0 | 149.0 |
| 15 | Erik Storck Trevor Moore | United States | 6 | 10 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 20$^†$ | 18 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 8 | 17 | | 177.0 | 157.0 |
| 16 | Gordon Cook Hunter Lowden | Canada | 3 | 16 | 5 | 17 | 9 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 9 | DNF 21$^†$ | | 183.0 | 162.0 |
| 17 | Pavle Kostov Petar Cupać | Croatia | 13 | 17 | 8 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 19$^†$ | 15 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 19 | | 200.0 | 181.0 |
| 18 | Yukio Makino Kenji Takahashi | Japan | 16 | 13 | 17 | 14 | 18$^†$ | 11 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 10 | | 206.0 | 188.0 |
| 19 | Jesse Kirkland Alexander Kirkland | Bermuda | DNF 21$^†$ | 19 | 18 | DNF 21 | DNF 21 | 12 | 6 | DNF 21 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 19 | 18 | | 225.0 | 204.0 |
| 20 | Dionysios Dimou Mike Pateniotis | Greece | 18 | 20$^†$ | 19 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 5 | | 262.0 | 242.0 |
Scoring system: low-point system; Source: Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s); DNF – Did not finish; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;