Sailing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics explained

Event:	Sailing
Games:	2008 Summer
Venue:	Qingdao International Sailing Centre
Dates:	8–13 September
Competitors:	67 Male Sailors 13 Female Sailors 25 Nations 41 Boats
Prev:	2004
Next:	2012

Eighty athletes representing 25 countries in three keelboat classes - the 2.4mR, the SKUD 18, and the Sonar, took part in sailing in the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Sailing was held in two designated areas on the Yellow Sea, Qingdao, Shandong province, from September 8 to September 13.

Competitors had a wide range of physical disabilities including degenerative nerve disease, blindness, missing limbs, and polio.

Boats were prepared and launched from the docks of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre, which also included the accessible Qingdao Paralympic Village, a 5-star hotel which previously housed the Olympic Sailing athletes.

Events

Three sailing events were held. All were mixed events, meaning that men and women could compete together.

International disability classification in sailing is done by a committee, which gives each competitor a number score with lower numbers corresponding to more severe disability. Sailors were classified under the IFDS Functional Classification System 2005 (FCS 2005). To take part in Paralympic sailing, an athlete must have a score of 7 or less. Functional Classification System full details: http://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/FINALFCS2009-%5B7144%5D.pdf

Event	Boat	Classifications
Single-Person Keelboat	2.4mR	All sailors are required to have a minimal disability or a higher level of disability as defined in the FCS 2005.
Two-Person Keelboat	SKUD 18	Crew shall include a female and one severely disabled sailor with a 1-point classification.
Three-Person Keelboat	Sonar	The total Sonar crew points shall not exceed 14 points.

The 2-person keelboat (SKUD18) made its official début in the Paralympics. The only Paralympic class keelboat with a spinnaker, emblazoned with the national flag of each country. Of the 11 countries competing in the SKUD event, 7 had female crew.

Results

Eighty athletes represented twenty-five countries in the three event classes. Qualification full details

Medal table

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their sailors (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

Medallists

In the 2-person keelboat event, all three of the medal-winning teams were composed of one man and one woman. Those three women were the first women to win Paralympic medals in sailing.^[1] Sailing competition athletes and full results.^[2]

1-person keelboat 2.4mR
2-person keelboat SKUD 18	Nick Scandone Maureen McKinnon-Tucker	Daniel Fitzgibbon Rachael Cox	John McRoberts Stacie Louttit
3-person keelboat Sonar	Jens Kroker Robert Prem Siegmund Mainka	Bruno Jourdren Herve Larhant Nicolas Vimont-Vicary	Colin Harrison Russell Boaden Graeme Martin

One Person Keelboat - 2.4 Metre

Rank	Athlete	Race										width=1% rowspan=45		Points
Rank	Athlete	width=40	1	width=40	2	width=40	3	width=40	4	width=40	5	width=40	6	width=40	7	width=40	8	width=40	9	width=40	10	Tot	Net
		1	1	5	2	(9)	(9)	2	4	5	1	39	21
		4	4	3	4	6	(17)	(11)	1	1	2	39	21
		2	6	1	(9)	1	7	(10)	3	4	4	47	28
		3	2	(11)	6	4	3	1	(11)	2	7	50	28
		5	3	2	(10)	7	1	5	(12)	6	3	54	32
		(9)	7	6	1	2	6	3	5	(9)	9	57	39
		(10)	5	7	7	3	4	(12)	2	8	5	63	41
		6	8	(16)	(13)	8	2	9	6	13	12	93	64
		7	(17) OCS	13	5	5	8	(15)	7	7	13	97	65
10		8	9	8	(16)	12	11	13	(16)	3	6	102	70
11		11	11	4	(15)	(15)	5	4	13	14	10	102	72
12		(12)	10	10	8	10	(13)	6	8	10	11	98	73
13		(15)	13	9	3	13	(14)	7	14	12	8	106	79
14		13	(15)	12	11	14	(15)	8	10	11	14	123	93
15		14	12	15	12	11	10	(16)	9	(16)	5	130	98
16		(16)	14	14	14	(16)	12	14	15	15	16	146	114

Two Person Keelboat - SKUD 18

Rank	Nation (skipper first)	Race											width=1% rowspan=45		Points
Rank	Nation (skipper first)	width=40	1	width=40	2	width=40	3	width=40	4	width=40	5	width=40	6	width=40	7	width=40	8	width=40	9	width=40	10	width=40	11 Cancelled	Tot	Net
		2	1	1	1	(3)	2	1	1	2	(12) DNS		26	11
		(4)	2	2	2	2	4	(9)	3	1	2		31	18
		3	3	3	3	1	3	2	(8)	(4)	3		33	21
		1	4	7	7	5	6	(8)	4	(8)	1		51	35
		5	5	(8)	(8)	4	1	4	7	7	4		53	37
		(10)	6	(12) DSQ	5	6	5	6	2	3	6		61	39
		6	(9)	4	4	7	(12) RAF	3	5	9	7		66	45
		7	7	5	6	(8)	7	7	(11)	5	5		68	49
		8	8	6	(9)	(9)	8	5	6	6	8		73	55
10		9	(10)	9	(10)	10	9	10	9	10	9		95	75
11		(11)	(11)	10	11	11	10	11	10	11	10		106	84

Open Three-Person Keelboat - Sonar

Rank	Nation (skipper first)	Race											width=1% rowspan=45		Points
Rank	Nation (skipper first)	width=30	1	width=30	2	width=30	3	width=30	4	width=30	5	width=30	6	width=30	7	width=30	8	width=30	9	width=30	10	width=30	11	Tot	Net
		5	6	3	1	4	(11)	5	2	(9)	4	5	55	35
		4	1	1	2	7	1	(10)	5	8	7	(15) DNF	61	36
		8	4	2	3	3	3	1	(10)	(15) OCS	5	7	61	36
		6	2	5	8	1	(15) OCS	(9)	1	5	3	6	61	37
		3	(15) DSQ	4	(15) DSQ	2	6	6	12	1	1	3	69	38
		(9)	3	6	(9)	5	7	8	6	3	2	1	59	41
													58	41
													69	47
													96	72
10													101	75
11													114	86
12													115	87
13													117	88
14													125	99

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Two-Person Keelboat (SKUD18): US claims gold . 2008-09-13 . The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad . 2008-09-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081014165907/http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/sailing/n214600552.shtml . 2008-10-14 . dead .
Web site: Schedules and Results - Sailing . The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad . 2008-09-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080913060901/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRMP/ENG/Schedule/SA.shtml . 2008-09-13 .