Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 470

The Men's 470 was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre,^[2] in the 470 dinghy. Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 58 sailors, on 29 boats, from 29 nations competed.^[3] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.^[4][5]

Men's 470[1] at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Line drawing of the 470
Venue	Qingdao International Sailing Centre
Dates	First race: 11 August 2008 (2008-08-11) Last race: 18 August 2008 (2008-08-18)
Competitors	58 from 29 nations
Teams	29 (boats)
Medalists
Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page  Australia Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield  Great Britain Nicolas Charbonnier Olivier Bausset  France
← 2004 2012 →

Race schedule[1][6]

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Practice race

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Race on Yellow

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Race on Orange

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Medal race on Yellow

Date	August
	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
Men's 470				●	2	2	2	Spare day	2	2	Spare day	●

Course areas and course configurations [7]

For the 470 course areas A (Yellow) and D (Orange) 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°1'10"N, 120°28'47"E) points to the center of the 0.75nm radius Orange course area. The target time for the course was about 60 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from several course configurations.

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  Course Areas
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  60° Trapezoid Outer Course (O)
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  60° Trapezoid Inner Course (I)
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  Windward – Leeward Course (W)

Outer courses

• O1: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH
• O2: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH
• O3: START – 1 – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3s/3p – 2 – 3p – FINISH

Inner courses

• I1: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH
• I2: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH
• I3: START – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 4s/4p – 1 – 2 – 3p – FINISH

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 but the Men's 470 competition was executed as scheduled.^[8]

Final results[9][10]

Results of individual races

Pos	Helmsman	Country	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X	MR	Tot	Pts
	Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page	Australia	4	7	3	3	3	4	5	16†	3	10	1	60.0	44.0
	Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield	Great Britain	19	5	1	4	9	6	20	OCS 30†	2	3	3	105.0	75.0
	Nicolas Charbonnier Olivier Bausset	France	6	3	8	1	6	18	3	14	7	20†	6	98.0	78.0
4	Sven Coster Kalle Coster	Netherlands	11	15†	12	2	8	15	2	8	4	2	7	93.0	78.0
5	Onán Barreiros Aarón Sarmiento	Spain	8	2	6	9	13	13	13	4	11	18†	4	105.0	87.0
6	Gabrio Zandonà Andrea Trani	Italy	10	4	7	7	2	21	19	6	29†	5	5	120.0	91.0
7	Tetsuya Matsunaga Taro Ueno	Japan	1	20	24†	13	10	14	1	9	21	4	2	121.0	97.0
8	Álvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes	Portugal	2	8	15	6	11	7	9	OCS 30†	10	14	10	132.0	102.0
9	Šime Fantela Igor Marenić	Croatia	18	6	9	OCS 30†	12	17	6	7	15	1	8	137.0	107.0
10	Javier Conte Juan de la Fuente	Argentina	14	14	4	11	19	9	7	OCS 30†	5	9	9	140.0	110.0
11	Carl Evans Peter Burling	New Zealand	7	10	14	12	BFD 30†	10	22	12	1	7		125.0	95.0
12	Andreas Kosmatopoulos Andreas Papadopoulos	Greece	5	26	11	8	5	5	18	3	20	29†		130.0	101.0
13	Stuart McNay Graham Biehl	United States	26	12	30†	17	15	1	4	1	6	23		135.0	105.0
14	Gideon Kliger Udi Gal	Israel	13	16	13	14	BFD 30†	11	15	2	12	12		138.0	108.0
15	Anton Dahlberg Sebastian Östling	Sweden	16	18	2	5	BFD 30†	20	17	13	14	6		141.0	111.0
16	Gerald Owens Philip Lawton	Ireland	22	1	17	15	1	25†	21	15	13	24		154.0	129.0
17	Fábio Pillar Samuel Albrecht	Brazil	9	30†	10	18	4	OCS 30	16	10	24	13		164.0	134.0
18	Karlo Hmeljak Mitja Nevečny	Slovenia	3	11	19	10	19	OCS 30†	25	20	25	8		169.0	139.0
19	Patryk Piasecki Kacper Ziemiński	Poland	20	9	20	23	17	16	8	24†	23	15		175.0	151.0
20	Mikhail Sheremetyev Maksim Sheremetyev	Russia	27†	21	22	21	24	12	11	11	18	17		184.0	157.0
21	Sergei Desukevich Pavel Logunov	Belarus	29†	27	16	26	16	2	12	17	16	27		188.0	159.0
22	Xu Yuan Zhen Terence Koh	Singapore	15	17	18	19	BFD 30†	8	10	19	27	26		189.0	159.0
23	Tobias Etter Felix Steiger	Switzerland	21	23	5	25	7	OCS 30†	27	26	9	19		192.0	162.0
24	Matthias Schmid Florian Reichstädter	Austria	24	19	25†	24	14	24	24	5	19	11		189.0	164.0
25	Yoon Cheul Kim Hyeong-tae	South Korea	17	24	21	27†	20	3	23	25	22	25		207.0	180.0
26	Wang Weidong Deng Daokun	China	12	30†	23	16	21	26	OCS 30†	22	8	28		216.0	186.0
27	Niklas Lindgren Heikki Elomaa	Finland	28	22	27	DSQ 30†	25	19	14	23	17	21		226.0	196.0
28	Deniz Çınar Ateş Çınar	Turkey	23	13	26	22	22	23	26	21	28†	22		226.0	198.0
29	Stéphane Locas Oliver Bone	Canada	25	25	DNF 30†	20	23	22	OCS 30	18	26	16		235.0	205.0

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;

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Men's 470 during the 2008 Summer Olympics

Medalists

Australian Gold Medalists

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  Helmsman: Nathan Wilmot
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  Crew: Malcolm Page

Further reading

• "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 3 March 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}
• "Beijing 2008". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.