Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Elliott 6m explained

Event:	Women's Elliott 6m
Games:	2012 Summer
Dates:	29 July – 5 August
Competitors:	36
Nations:	12
Teams:	12 (boats)
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronzenoc:	FIN

The Women's Elliott 6m was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The competition followed a match race format. It consisted of a round-robin a quarter finals, semi-finals, petit-final and final series. The top eight crews from the round-robin were seeded into the quarter finals.^[1]

Summary

A total of 98 matches were sailed:

Sixty-seven matches were sailed in the round robin (including the rematch between FIN and POR. Finland originally won the round robin race against Portugal, but this was annulled after a protest by Portugal due to a Portuguese boat getting stuck at the turning mark. Finland won the rescheduled race as well.)
The quarter finals (best 3 out of 5) 16 matches were sailed.
Semi-finals, best 2 out of 3 (best 3 out of 5) was planned. Russia appealed the decision to stop the semi-finals after 3 matches and the results of 4th match of the petite final to CAS. The appeal to the semi-finals decision was later rejected.) Six matches were sailed.
Petit-final and final series (best 3 out of 5) 4 matches.
In the final a total of 5 matches were sailed.

Schedule

bgcolor=LightBlue align=center	●	Practice race	bgcolor=Green align=center	●	Round Robin on Nothe	bgcolor=DodgerBlue align=center	●	Knock-out on Nothe	bgcolor=Red align=center	●	Semi-finals on Nothe	bgcolor=Gold align=center	●	Finals on Nothe

250px|thumb|left|Elliott 6ms during match racing

Course areas and course configurations

See main article: Sailing courses at the 2012 Summer Olympics. For the Elliott 6m the majority of racing took place on course area Nothe, however some racing also occurred in the Portland area. The location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area. The target time for the course was 18 minutes. All races were conducted on windward/leeward course configurations of 2 laps.

Results

Round Robin

50x25px Rank	50px Country														Races	Won	Lost	Points
1		bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1		11	11	0	11
2		1 PEN	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1		11	9	2	8
3		0	0	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1		11	8	3	8
4		0	0	0	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1		11	8	3	8
5		0	0	1	0	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1	0	0	1	1	1	1		11	6	5	6
6		0	1	0	0	0	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		0	1	1	1	1	1		11	6	5	6
7		0	0	0	0	1	1	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		0	0	1	1	1		11	5	6	5
8		0	0	0 DNF	0	1	0 DSQ	1	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1	0	1	0		11	4	7	4
9		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1	1	1		11	4	7	4
10		0	0	0	0	0	0 DNF	0	1	0	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1	1		11	3	8	3
11		0	0	0	0	0 DNF	0	0 DNF	0 DNF	0	0	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue		1		11	1	10	1
12		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	bgcolor=LightSteelBlue			11	1	10	1

5th to 8th place

Sail-offs for places 5–8, scheduled for August 9, were cancelled due to low winds. The Round-robin results were used for final placement.

Final ranking

-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" align="center"	50x25px Rank	50px Country	Helmsman	Crew	Round Robin	Knock out	Semi Finals	Finals	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"			Támara Echegoyen	Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro	3	1	1	1	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"			Olivia Price	Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty	1	1	1	2	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"			Silja Lehtinen	Silja Kanerva Mikaela Wulff	5	1	1	3	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	4		Ekaterina Skudina	Elena Oblova Elena Syuzeva	2	1	1	4	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	5		Anna Tunnicliffe	Deborah Capozzi Molly O'Bryan – Vandemoer	4	5	-	-	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	6		Claire Leroy	Élodie Bertrand Marie Riou	6	6	-	-	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	7		Lucy MacGregor	Annie Lush Kate MacGregor	7	7	-	-	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	8		Renee Groeneveld	Annemieke Bes Marcelien Bos – de Koning	8	8	-	-	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	9		Stephanie Hazard	Jenna Hansen Susannah Pyatt	9	-	-	-	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	10		Lotte Meldegaard Pedersen	Susanne Boidin Tina Gramkov	10	-	-	-	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	11		Rita Gonçalves	Mariana Lobato Diana Neves	11	-	-	-	- style="vertical-align:top; font-size:90%" align="center"	12		Anna Kjellberg	Malin Källström Lotta Harrysson	12	-	-	-

Notes and References

Web site: Match race competition format. 2012 Summer Olympics. 2 August 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120802072532/http://www.london2012.com/sailing/event/elliott-6m-wmr/competition-format/. 2 August 2012.