# Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 470

The men's 470 was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, in the 470 dinghy Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 54 sailors, on 27 boats, from 27 nations competed. Crews of 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 | ● | Race on South | ● | Medal race on Nothe |
| Date | July | July | July | July | July | July | August | 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 | 2 Thu | 3 Fri | 4 Sat | 5 Sun | 6 Mon | 7 Tue | 8 Wed | 9 Thu | 10 Fri | 11 Sat | 12 Sun |
| Men's 470 | | | | | | | ● | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Spare day | 2 | 2 | Spare day | MR | | | |

## Course areas and course configurations

For the 470 course areas Portland, Nothe, West, and South 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, the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area and the location (50° 35.71’ N 02° 22.08’ W) points to the center of the South course area. The target time for the course was 60 minutes for the races and 30 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 |
| | Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page | Australia | 3 | 9$^†$ | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 31.0 | 22.0 |
| | Luke Patience Stuart Bithell | Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6$^†$ | 3 | 2 | 8 | 36.0 | 30.0 |
| | Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente | Argentina | 5 | 24$^†$ | 3 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 87.0 | 63.0 |
| 4 | Gabrio Zandonà Pietro Zucchetti | Italy | 6 | 26$^†$ | 1 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 98.0 | 72.0 |
| 5 | Paul Snow-Hansen Jason Saunders | New Zealand | DSQ 28$^†$ | 3 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 114.0 | 86.0 |
| 6 | Šime Fantela Igor Marenić | Croatia | DSQ 28$^†$ | 13 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 115.0 | 87.0 |
| 7 | Pierre Leboucher Vincent Garos | France | 9 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 19$^†$ | 11 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 109.0 | 90.0 |
| 8 | Álvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes | Portugal | 12 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 10 | OCS 28$^†$ | 10 | 121.0 | 93.0 |
| 9 | Matthias Schmid Florian Reichstädter | Austria | 1 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 16 | 24$^†$ | 10 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 131.0 | 107.0 |
| 10 | Anton Dahlberg Sebastian Östling | Sweden | 4 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 24$^†$ | 22 | 13 | 20 | 147.0 | 123.0 |
| 11 | Onán Barreiros Aarón Sarmiento | Spain | 7 | 8 | 12 | 27$^†$ | 24 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 9 | | 131.0 | 104.0 |
| 12 | Sven Coster Kalle Coster | Netherlands | 8 | 5 | 19 | 7 | 21 | 24$^†$ | 9 | 22 | 6 | 8 | | 129.0 | 105.0 |
| 13 | Ferdinand Gerz Patrick Follmann | Germany | 13 | 17$^†$ | 13 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 10 | | 122.0 | 105.0 |
| 14 | Stuart McNay Graham Biehl | United States | 15 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 23$^†$ | 23 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 4 | | 131.0 | 108.0 |
| 15 | Gideon Kliger Eran Sela | Israel | 17 | 11 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 12 | OCS 28$^†$ | 23 | | 140.0 | 112.0 |
| 16 | Yannick Brauchli Romuald Hausser | Switzerland | 11 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 23$^†$ | 7 | | 142.0 | 119.0 |
| 17 | Mikhail Sheremetyev Maxim Sheremetyev | Russia | 21 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 20 | 4 | 25$^†$ | 18 | 17 | | 155.0 | 130.0 |
| 18 | Ryunosuke Harada Yugo Yoshida | Japan | 19 | 12 | 25$^†$ | 12 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 17 | 17 | 15 | | 156.0 | 131.0 |
| 19 | Panagiotis Kampouridis Efstathios Papadopoulos | Greece | 14 | 7 | 20 | 15 | 18 | DSQ 28$^†$ | 27 | 19 | 8 | 20 | | 176.0 | 148.0 |
| 20 | Wang Weidong Deng Daokun | China | 20 | 15 | 6 | 26 | 27$^†$ | 17 | 22 | 26 | 12 | 16 | | 187.0 | 160.0 |
| 21 | Joonas Lindgren Niklas Lindgren | Finland | 22 | 19 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 15 | 26$^†$ | 21 | 21 | 18 | | 193.0 | 167.0 |
| 22 | Park Gun-woo Cho Sung-min | South Korea | 23 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 20 | 25$^†$ | 20 | 8 | 24 | 21 | | 194.0 | 169.0 |
| 23 | Ger Owens Scott Flanigan | Ireland | 16 | 25 | 24 | 25 | 15 | 22 | 25 | 27$^†$ | 16 | 5 | | 200.0 | 173.0 |
| 24 | Deniz Çınar Ateş Çınar | Turkey | 10 | 23 | 26$^†$ | 18 | 22 | 21 | 23 | 16 | 19 | 26 | | 204.0 | 178.0 |
| 25 | Luke Ramsay Mike Leigh | Canada | 24 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 26$^†$ | 19 | | 205.0 | 179.0 |
| 26 | Asenathi Jim Roger Hudson | South Africa | 18 | 27$^†$ | 27 | 20 | 26 | 26 | 13 | 15 | 25 | 24 | | 221.0 | 194.0 |
| 27 | Benjamín Grez Diego González | Chile | 25$^†$ | 21 | 23 | 23 | 25 | 18 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 25 | | 221.0 | 196.0 |
Scoring system: low-point system; Source: Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s); DSQ – Disqualified; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;