# Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 49er

The Men's 49er was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics program in Rio de Janeiro and took place between 12–18 August at Marina da Glória. 13 races (the last one a medal race) were held.
The medals were presented by Barbara Kendall, IOC member, New Zealand and Adrienne Greenwood, Vice President of World Sailing.

## Schedule

| Fri 12 Aug | Sat 13 Aug | Sun 14 Aug | Mon 15 Aug | Tue 16 Aug | Wed 17 Aug | Thu 18 Aug |
| Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 | Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 | Rest day | Race 7 Race 8 Race 9 | Race 10 Race 11 Race 12 | Rest day | Medal race |

## Results

Results of individual races :
| Pos | Crew | Country | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | XII | MR | Tot | Pts |
| | Peter Burling Blair Tuke | New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7$^†$ | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 42.0 | 35.0 |
| | Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen | Australia | 13$^†$ | 8 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 91.0 | 78.0 |
| | Erik Heil Thomas Plößel | Germany | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 18$^†$ | 16 | 101.0 | 83.0 |
| 4 | Jonas Warrer Christian Peter Lübeck | Denmark | 8 | 9 | DSQ 21$^†$ | 15 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 119.0 | 98.0 |
| 5 | Julien d'Ortoli Noé Delpech | France | 20$^†$ | 12 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 120.0 | 100.0 |
| 6 | Dylan Fletcher Alain Sign | Great Britain | 15 | 10 | 7 | 20$^†$ | 14 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 120.0 | 100.0 |
| 7 | Yago Lange Klaus Lange | Argentina | 11 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 16 | DSQ 21$^†$ | 2 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 132.0 | 111.0 |
| 8 | Łukasz Przybytek Paweł Kołodziński | Poland | 2 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 5 | RDG 9.3 | 18$^†$ | 11 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 136.3 | 118.3 |
| 9 | Diego Botín Iago López | Spain | 16 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18$^†$ | 12 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 132.0 | 120.0 |
| 10 | Ryan Seaton Matt McGovern | Ireland | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 20$^†$ | 1 | 18 | 141.0 | 121.0 |
| 11 | Marco Grael Gabriel Borges | Brazil | 10 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 19$^†$ | 7 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 6 | | 128.0 | 109.0 |
| 12 | Nico Delle Karth Nikolaus Resch | Austria | 17 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 14 | DNF 21$^†$ | 4 | 11 | 16 | | 137.0 | 116.0 |
| 13 | Sébastien Schneiter Lucien Cujean | Switzerland | 5 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 17$^†$ | 15 | 15 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 17 | 5 | | 137.0 | 120.0 |
| 14 | Ruggero Tita Pietro Zucchetti | Italy | 7 | 20$^†$ | 19 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 19 | | 140.0 | 120.0 |
| 15 | Pavle Kostov Petar Cupać | Croatia | 9 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 18$^†$ | 15 | 13 | 8 | 10 | | 140.0 | 122.0 |
| 16 | Jorge Lima José Costa | Portugal | 4 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 16 | DSQ 21$^†$ | 11 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 12 | | 143.0 | 122.0 |
| 17 | Yannick Lefèbvre Tom Pelsmaekers | Belgium | 19 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 20$^†$ | 14 | 8 | | 145.0 | 125.0 |
| 18 | Yukio Makino Kenji Takahashi | Japan | 3 | 15 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 20$^†$ | | 152.0 | 132.0 |
| 19 | Thomas Barrows III Joseph Morris | United States | 18 | 19 | 14 | 14 | DSQ 21$^†$ | 11 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 17 | | 176.0 | 155.0 |
| 20 | Benjamin Grez Cristóbal Grez | Chile | 12 | 18 | 15 | 19 | 18 | DSQ 21$^†$ | 7 | 20 | DNF 21 | 14 | 12 | 15 | | 192.0 | 171.0 |
Scoring system: low-point system;
Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s); DNF – Did not finish; DSQ – Disqualified; RDG – Redress given; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;