Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Yngling

The Women's Yngling 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. Only nine races were completed including the medal race due to lack of wind. 45 sailors, on 15 boats, from 15 nations competed.^[3] Ten boats qualified for the medal race.^[4][5]

Women's Yngling[1] at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Yngling
Venue	Qingdao International Sailing Centre
Dates	First race: 9 August 2008 (2008-08-09) Last race: 17 August 2008 (2008-08-17)
Competitors	45 from 15 nations
Teams	15 boats
Medalists
Sarah Ayton Sarah Webb Pippa Wilson  Great Britain Mandy Mulder Annemieke Bes Merel Witteveen  Netherlands Sofia Bekatorou Virginia Kravarioti Sofia Papadopoulou  Greece
← 2004

Race schedule[1][6]

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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	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 Yngling	●		2	2	2	Spare day	1	No wind	1	No wind	●

Course areas and course configurations [7]

For the Yngling 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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  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. Due to lack of wind (< 1.6 knots) one racing day was cancelled and the medal race was postponed to the next day.^[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		Medalrace		Total	Total – discard
				Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.
	Great Britain	Sarah Ayton	Sarah Webb Pippa Wilson	2	2.0	3	3.0	4	4.0	7	7.0	4	4.0	2	2.0	2	2.0	5	5.0	1	2.0	31.0	24.0
	Netherlands	Mandy Mulder	Annemieke Bes Merel Witteveen	9	9.0	1	1.0	2	2.0	13	13.0	1	1.0	5	5.0	4	4.0	1	1.0	4	8.0	44.0	31.0
	Greece	Sofia Bekatorou	Virginia Kravarioti Sofia Papadopoulou	10	10.0	12	12.0	9	9.0	3	3.0	2	2.0	OCS	16.0	3	3.0	3	3.0	3	6.0	64.0	48.0
4	Germany	Ulrike Schümann	Ute Höpfner Julia Bleck	8	8.0	7	7.0	7	7.0	11	11.0	11	11.0	3	3.0	5	5.0	13	13.0	2	4.0	69.0	56.0
5	France	Anne le Helley	Catherine Lepesant Julie Gerecht	4	4.0	15	15.0	1	1.0	14	14.0	5	5.0	10	10.0	10	10.0	2	2.0	5	10.0	71.0	56.0
6	Russia	Ekaterina Skudina	Diana Krutskikh Natalia Ivanova	3	3.0	8	8.0	12	12.0	10	10.0	15	15.0	1	1.0	6	6.0	6	6.0	5	10.0	71.0	56.0
7	United States	Sally Barkow	Carrie Howe Deborah Capozzi	14	14.0	2	2.0	8	8.0	5	5.0	6	6.0	11	11.0	1	1.0	10	10.0	9	18.0	75.0	61.0
8	China	Song Xiaqun	Yu Yanli Li Xiaoni	7	7.0	5	5.0	DSQ	16.0	4	4.0	13	13.0	6	6.0	8	8.0	4	4.0	8	16.0	79.0	63.0
9	Norway	Siren Sundby	Lise Birgitte Fredriksen Alexandra Koefoed	12	12.0	13	13.0	5	5.0	1	1.0	3	3.0	13	13.0	12	12.0	11	11.0	7	14.0	84.0	71.0
10	Australia	Krystal Weir	Karyn Gojnich Angela Farrell	1	1.0	11	11.0	6	6.0	12	12.0	7	7.0	7	7.0	9	9.0	8	8.0	DSQ	22.0	83.0	71.0
11	Finland	Silja Lehtinen	Maria Klemetz Livia Väresmaa	6	6.0	6	6.0	3	3.0	8	8.0	10	10.0	OCS	16.0	15	15.0	12	12.0	-	-	76.0	60.0
12	South Africa	Dominique Provoyeur	Kim Rew Penny Alison	13	13.0	10	10.0	11	11.0	2	2.0	12	12.0	8	8.0	13	13.0	7	7.0	-	-	76.0	63.0
13	Canada	Jennifer Provan	Martha Henderson Katie Abbott	5	5.0	4	4.0	10	10.0	15	15.0	9	9.0	12	12.0	11	11.0	15	15.0	-	-	81.0	66.0
14	Spain	Mónica Azón	Sandra Azón Graciela Pisonero	11	11.0	9	9.0	14	14.0	6	6.0	14	14.0	4	4.0	14	14.0	9	9.0	-	-	81.0	67.0
15	Italy	Chiara Calligaris	Francesca Scognamillo Giulia Pignolo	15	15.0	14	14.0	13	13.0	9	9.0	8	8.0	9	9.0	7	7.0	14	14.0	-	-	89.0	74.0

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 Yngling 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.