Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 470

The women's 470 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. 38 sailors, on 19 boats, from 19 nations competed.^[3] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.^[4][5]

Women’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	38 from 19 nations
Teams	19 boats
Medalists
Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson  Australia Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout  Netherlands Fernanda Oliveira Isabel Swan  Brazil
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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
Women’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 Women’s 470 competition was executed as scheduled.^[8]

Final results[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.
	Australia	Elise Rechichi	Tessa Parkinson	2	2.0	2	2.0	4	4.0	1	1.0	9	9.0	4	4.0	2	2.0	5	5.0	3	3.0	2	2.0	9	18.0	52.0	43.0
	Netherlands	Marcelien de Koning	Lobke Berkhout	3	3.0	1	1.0	9	9.0	5	5.0	2	2.0	2	2.0	10	10.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	16	16.0	5	10.0	69.0	53.0
	Brazil	Fernanda Oliveira	Isabel Swan	11	11.0	16	16.0	5	5.0	10	10.0	7	7.0	6	6.0	6	6.0	2	2.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	1	2.0	76.0	60.0
4	Israel	Nike Kornecki	Vered Buskila	8	8.0	13	13.0	1	1.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	19	19.0	3	3.0	1	1.0	11	11.0	15	15.0	2	4.0	85.0	66.0
5	Italy	Giulia Conti	Giovanna Micol	14	14.0	7	7.0	6	6.0	3	3.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	4	4.0	19	19.0	12	12.0	6	6.0	3	6.0	94.0	75.0
6	Great Britain	Christina Bassadone	Saskia Clark	DSQ	20.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	4	4.0	15	15.0	13	13.0	8	8.0	3	3.0	15	15.0	5	5.0	4	8.0	102.0	82.0
7	Czech Republic	Lenka Šmídová	Lenka Mrzílková	6	6.0	4	4.0	12	12.0	11	11.0	11	11.0	5	5.0	11	11.0	11	11.0	9	9.0	1	1.0	7	14.0	95.0	83.0
8	Austria	Sylvia Vogl	Carolina Flatscher	9	9.0	DSQ	20.0	13	13.0	7	7.0	1	1.0	7	7.0	1	1.0	13	13.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	8	16.0	104.0	84.0
9	Germany	Stefanie Rothweiler	Vivien Kussatz	7	7.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	9	9.0	5	5.0	12	12.0	OCS	20.0	8	8.0	8	8.0	12	12.0	6	12.0	110.0	90.0
10	Spain	Natalia Vía Dufresne	Laia Tutzó	4	4.0	5	5.0	2	2.0	6	6.0	13	13.0	10	10.0	13	13.0	17	17.0	2	2.0	17	17.0	10	20.0	109.0	92.0
11	France	Ingrid Petitjean	Gwendolyn Lemaitre	1	1.0	11	11.0	16	16.0	8	8.0	17	17.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	13	13.0	9	9.0	-	-	102.0	85.0
12	United States	Amanda Clark	Sara Mergenthaler	12	12.0	12	12.0	10	10.0	14	14.0	4	4.0	17	17.0	7	7.0	6	6.0	17	17.0	7	7.0	-	-	106.0	89.0
13	Slovenia	Vesna Dekleva	Klara Maučec	DSQ	20.0	3	3.0	8	8.0	16	16.0	12	12.0	3	3.0	15	15.0	18	18.0	14	14.0	3	3.0	-	-	112.0	92.0
14	Japan	Ai Kondo	Naoko Kamata	13	13.0	15	15.0	14	14.0	15	15.0	14	14.0	1	1.0	12	12.0	10	10.0	1	1.0	13	13.0	-	-	108.0	93.0
15	Sweden	Therese Torgersson	Vendela Zachrisson-Santén	10	10.0	14	14.0	18	18.0	DSQ	20.0	19	19.0	8	8.0	5	5.0	14	14.0	5	5.0	8	8.0	-	-	121.0	101.0
16	Argentina	María Fernanda Sesto	Consuelo Monsegur	16	16.0	18	18.0	17	17.0	12	12.0	10	10.0	16	16.0	14	14.0	4	4.0	10	10.0	14	14.0	-	-	131.0	113.0
17	Switzerland	Emmanuelle Rol	Anne-Sophie Thilo	15	15.0	9	9.0	7	7.0	13	13.0	3	3.0	15	15.0	OCS	20.0	15	15.0	18	18.0	19	19.0	-	-	134.0	114.0
18	China	Wen Yimei	Yu Chunyan	5	5.0	10	10.0	19	19.0	17	17.0	16	16.0	14	14.0	OCS	20.0	12	12.0	16	16.0	10	10.0	-	-	139.0	119.0
19	Singapore	Toh Liying	Deborah Ong	17	17.0	17	17.0	15	15.0	18	18.0	18	18.0	18	18.0	OCS	20.0	16	16.0	19	19.0	18	18.0	-	-	176.0	156.0

Legend:   – Qualified for next phase; DSQ – Disqualified; 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 Women’s 470 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.