# Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 49er

The mixed 49er was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre. Sixteen races (last one a medal race) were scheduled. Only thirteen races were completed including the medal race due to lack of wind. 38 sailors, on 19 boats, from 19 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race.

## Race schedule

    Sources:
| ● | 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 |
| Mixed 49er | ● | | | 3 | 3 | Spare day | 3 | No wind | No wind | 3 | ● | | | | | | | |

## Course areas and course configurations

    Source:
For the 49er course areas A (Yellow) and E (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 minutes for all races. The race management could choose from several lengths of the course configuration.
* Course Areas
* Windward – Leeward Course (W)

### 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

## 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) one racing day had to be cancelled and the medal race needed to be postponed to the next day.

## Final results

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Results of individual races :
| Pos | Helmsman | Country | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | XII | MR | Tot | Pts |
| | Jonas Warrer Martin Kirketerp | Denmark | 2 | 4 | 10$^†$ | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 71.0 | 61.0 |
| | Iker Martínez Xabier Fernández | Spain | 1 | 10 | 17 | 2 | OCS 20$^†$ | 5 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 84.0 | 64.0 |
| | Jan-Peter Peckolt Hannes Peckolt | Germany | 15$^†$ | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 81.0 | 66.0 |
| 4 | Pietro Sibello Gianfranco Sibello | Italy | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 17$^†$ | 3 | 3 | 4 | 83.0 | 66.0 |
| 5 | Nathan Outteridge Ben Austin | Australia | DSQ 20$^†$ | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 93.0 | 73.0 |
| 6 | Tim Wadlow Chris Rast | United States | 5 | 14 | 15 | 16$^†$ | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | DNF 11 | 105.0 | 89.0 |
| 7 | André Fonseca Rodrigo Duarte | Brazil | 10 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 13$^†$ | 8 | 112.0 | 99.0 |
| 8 | Nico Delle Karth Nikolaus Resch | Austria | 9 | 2 | 14$^†$ | 8 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 1 | DNF 11 | 113.0 | 99.0 |
| 9 | Stevie Morrison Ben Rhodes | Great Britain | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 15 | OCS 20$^†$ | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 120.0 | 100.0 |
| 10 | Emmanuel Dyen Yann Rocherieux | France | 7 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 17$^†$ | 5 | 126.0 | 109.0 |
| 11 | Jorge Lima Francisco Andrade | Portugal | 12 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 4 | DNC 20$^†$ | 10 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 12 | | 120.0 | 100.0 |
| 12 | Akira Ishibashi Yukio Makino | Japan | 8 | 17$^†$ | 3 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 14 | 12 | | 120.0 | 103.0 |
| 13 | Christopher Gundersen Frode Bovim | Norway | 11 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 19$^†$ | 12 | 11 | | 147.0 | 128.0 |
| 14 | Gordon Cook Ben Remocker | Canada | 13 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 18$^†$ | 15 | 16 | | 152.0 | 134.0 |
| 15 | Rodion Luka George Leonchuk | Ukraine | 6 | 11 | 12 | 15 | DSQ 20$^†$ | OCS 20 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 14 | | 159.0 | 139.0 |
| 16 | Marcin Czajkowski Krzysztof Kiekowski | Poland | 18 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 9 | 19$^†$ | 6 | | 166.0 | 147.0 |
| 17 | Pavle Kostov Petar Cupać | Croatia | 14 | 16 | 16 | 18 | OCS 20$^†$ | 11 | 9 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 10 | | 178.0 | 158.0 |
| 18 | Jonas Lindberg Kalle Torlén | Sweden | 16 | 18 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 19 | 16 | 16 | OCS 20$^†$ | | 183.0 | 163.0 |
| 19 | Li Fei Hu Xianqiang | China | 17 | 19$^†$ | 19 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 18 | 9 | | 195.0 | 176.0 |
Scoring system: low-point system;
Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s); BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNE – Non excludable disqualification; 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;