# Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star

The men's Star was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Eleven races (the last one being a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 32 sailors, on 16 boats, from 16 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 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 |
| 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 Star | | | ● | 2 | 2 | 2 | Spare day | 2 | 2 | Spare day | MR | | | | | | | |

## Course areas and course configurations

For the Star course areas Nothe, West, and South were used. 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 – 75 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 |
| | Fredrik Lööf Max Salminen | Sweden | 10$^†$ | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 42.0 | 32.0 |
| | Iain Percy Andrew Simpson | Great Britain | 11$^†$ | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 45.0 | 34.0 |
| | Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada | Brazil | 4 | 1 | 9$^†$ | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 49.0 | 40.0 |
| 4 | Eivind Melleby Petter Mørland Pedersen | Norway | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16$^†$ | 11 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 79.0 | 63.0 |
| 5 | Hamish Pepper Jim Turner | New Zealand | 15$^†$ | 7 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 85.0 | 70.0 |
| 6 | Robert Stanjek Frithjof Kleen | Germany | 6 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 6 | BFD 17$^†$ | 11 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 87.0 | 70.0 |
| 7 | Mark Mendelblatt Brian Fatih | United States | 5 | 14$^†$ | 5 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 85.0 | 71.0 |
| 8 | Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Życki | Poland | 9 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 13$^†$ | 2 | 18 | 85.0 | 72.0 |
| 9 | Xavier Rohart Pierre-Alexis Ponsot | France | 1 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 14$^†$ | 11 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 100.0 | 86.0 |
| 10 | Peter O'Leary David Burrows | Ireland | 2 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 12 | DSQ 17$^†$ | 7 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 112.0 | 95.0 |
| 11 | Michael Hestbæk Claus Olesen | Denmark | 12 | 11 | 13 | 14$^†$ | 13 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 10 | | 103.0 | 89.0 |
| 12 | Richard Clarke Tyler Bjorn | Canada | 16 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 10 | OCS 17$^†$ | 13 | 12 | 5 | 13 | | 110.0 | 93.0 |
| 13 | Flavio Marazzi Enrico De Maria | Switzerland | 13 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 16$^†$ | | 118.0 | 102.0 |
| 14 | Aimilios Papathanasiou Antonis Tsotras | Greece | 3 | 16 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 15 | BFD 17$^†$ | DSQ 17 | OCS 17 | 12 | | 123.0 | 106.0 |
| 15 | Afonso Domingos Frederico Melo | Portugal | 14 | 15 | 15 | 16$^†$ | 9 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 14 | | 124.0 | 108.0 |
| 16 | Marin Lovrović Jr. Dan Lovrović | Croatia | 8 | 12 | 16$^†$ | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 15 | | 132.0 | 116.0 |
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;