Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Tornado

The Mixed Tornado was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre.^[2] Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 30 sailors, on 15 boats, from 15 nations competed.^[3] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.^[4][5]

Mixed Tornado[1] at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Tornado
Venue	Qingdao International Sailing Centre
Dates	First race: 15 August 2008 (2008-08-15) Last race: 21 August 2008 (2008-08-21)
Competitors	30 from 15 nations
Teams	15 boats
Medalists
Antón Paz Fernando Echávarri  Spain Darren Bundock Glenn Ashby  Australia Santiago Lange Carlos Espínola  Argentina
← 2004

Race schedule

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Practice race

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Race on Yellow

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Race on Pink

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Medal race on Yellow

Date[1][6]	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
Mixed Tornado								●	1	2	1	3	No wind	3	●

Course areas and course configurations

Source:^[7]

For the Tornado course areas A (Yellow) and E (Pink) 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°2'44"N, 120°28'9"E) points to the center of the 0.75nm radius Pink 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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  Windward - Leeward Course (W)

Windward-leeward courses

• W2: Start – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – Finish
• W3: Start – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – Finish
• W4: Start – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – 4s/4p – 1 – 1a – 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. For the Tornado competition several races had to be postponed to the next day and the spare day had to be used.^[8]

Final results

Source:^[9][10]

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Crew	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Race 4		Race 5		Race 6		Race 7		Race 8		Race 9		Race 10		Medalrace		Total	Total – discard
				Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.
	Spain	Fernando Echávarri	Antón Paz	1	1.0	6	6.0	1	1.0	4	4.0	7	7.0	13	13.0	1	1.0	7	7.0	1	1.0	8	8.0	4	8.0	57.0	44.0
	Australia	Darren Bundock	Glenn Ashby	5	5.0	4	4.0	3	3.0	1	1.0	5	5.0	9	9.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	5	10.0	58.0	49.0
	Argentina	Santiago Lange	Carlos Espínola	13	13.0	1	1.0	1	1.0	12	12.0	4	4.0	6	6.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	6	12.0	69.0	56.0
4	Canada	Oskar Johansson	Kevin Stittle	8	8.0	3	3.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	15	15.0	11	11.0	12	12.0	2	2.0	2	2.0	2	4.0	76.0	61.0
5	Netherlands	Mitch Booth	Pim Nieuwenhuis	3	3.0	13	13.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	10	10.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	11	11.0	10	10.0	3	6.0	77.0	64.0
6	Great Britain	Leigh McMillan	Will Howden	6	6.0	8	8.0	13	13.0	8	8.0	14	14.0	7	7.0	7	7.0	2	2.0	3	3.0	12	12.0	1	2.0	82.0	68.0
7	Italy	Francesco Marcolini	Edoardo Bianchi	15	15.0	9	9.0	4	4.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	4	4.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	8	8.0	6	6.0	8	16.0	89.0	74.0
8	Germany	Johannes Polgar	Florian Spalteholz	10	10.0	7	7.0	11	11.0	5	5.0	6	6.0	1	1.0	5	5.0	13	13.0	4	4.0	3	3.0	22	22.0	87.0	74.0
9	Austria	Roman Hagara	Hans-Peter Steinacher	12	12.0	10	10.0	14	14.0	10	10.0	11	11.0	3	3.0	3	3.0	9	9.0	5	5.0	5	5.0	7	14.0	96.0	82.0
10	Greece	Iordanis Paschalidis	Konstantinos Trigkonis	2	2.0	5	5.0	12	12.0	7	7.0	2	2.0	12	12.0	4	4.0	10	10.0	6	6.0	13	13.0	22	22.0	95.0	82.0
11	France	Xavier Revil	Christophe Espagnon	7	7.0	2	2.0	10	10.0	DNC	16.0	9	9.0	10	10.0	10	10.0	4	4.0	10	10.0	7	7.0	-	-	85.0	69.0
12	Belgium	Carolijn Brouwer	Sébastien Godefroid	11	11.0	11	11.0	5	5.0	6	6.0	3	3.0	8	8.0	13	13.0	6	6.0	DNF	16.0	9	9.0	-	-	88.0	72.0
13	Ukraine	Pavlo Kalynchev	Andriy Shafranyuk	4	4.0	15	15.0	6	6.0	13	13.0	15	15.0	11	11.0	12	12.0	14	14.0	13	13.0	11	11.0	-	-	114.0	99.0
14	China	Luo Youjia	Chen Xiuke	9	9.0	14	14.0	OCS	16.0	DNF	16.0	13	13.0	5	5.0	14	14.0	5	5.0	12	12.0	14	14.0	-	-	118.0	102.0
15	United States	John Lovell	Charlie Ogletree	14	14.0	12	12.0	7	7.0	11	11.0	12	12.0	14	14.0	15	15.0	15	15.0	14	14.0	15	15.0	-	-	129.0	114.0

Legend:   – Qualified for next phase; DNC – Did not come to the starting area; DNF – Did not finish; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result.

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Tornado during the 2008 Summer Olympics

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.