Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

75% of the qualification places for Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics were awarded based on results at the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships, and the remaining 25% at the World Championships for each boat class.

Qualification timeline

Event	Date	Venue
	Dec 3–18, 2011	Perth
2012 Elliott 6m Qualification Event	February 1 – 5, 2012	Key Biscayne
	Mar 20–28, 2012	Cádiz^[1]
2012 Laser World Championship	May 4 – 10, 2012	Boltenhagen^[2]
2012 49er World Championship	May 4 – 13, 2012	Zadar^[3]
	May 5 – 11, 2012	Hyères^[4]
2012 470 World Championships	May 10 – 19, 2012	Barcelona^[5]
	May 11 – 18, 2012	Falmouth^[6]
2012 Laser Radial World Championship	May 15 – 20, 2012	Boltenhagen

Qualification progress

Men							Total
Event	width=130 rowspan="2"	2011 ISAF World Championships !	width=130 rowspan="2"	2012 Class Championships !	width=130 rowspan="2"	Host country !	Total
Windsurfer (RS:X)	28 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	9 <	-- Class Championships -->		38
One-person dinghy (Laser)	35 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	12 <	-- Class Championships -->		48
Heavyweight one-person dinghy (Finn)	18 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	6 <	-- Class Championships -->		25
Two-person dinghy (470)	19 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	7 <	-- Class Championships -->		27
Skiff (49er)	14 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	5 <	-- Class Championships -->		20
Keelboat (Star)	11 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	4 <	-- Class Championships -->		16
Event	width=130 rowspan="2"	2011 ISAF World Championships !	width=130 rowspan="2"	2012 Class Championships !	width=130 rowspan="2"	Host Country !	Total
Women							Total
Windsurfer (RS:X)	20 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	7 <	-- Class Championships -->		28
One-person dinghy (Laser Radial)	29 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	9 <	-- Class Championships -->		39
Two-person dinghy (470)	14 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	5 <	-- Class Championships -->		20
Match racing (Elliott 6m)	8 <	-- ISAF Championships -->	3 <	-- Class Championships -->		12

Summary

Nation	Men						Women				Total
Nation	width=50		width=50		width=50		width=50		width=50		width=50		width=50	width=50	width=50	width=50	width=35	Boats	width=49	Athletes
	X	X		X			X	X	X		6	8
		X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	8	13
		X	X	X	X				X		5	8
	X							X			2	2
		X					X	X			3	3
					X						1	2
	X	X	X			X	X	X	X		7	9
	X						X				2	2
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X			8	11
		X		X							2	3
	X	X	X	X			X	X	X		7	9
	X										1	1
	X	X									2	2
								X			1	1
	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X		8	12
	X	X									2	2
	X	X	X					X			4	4
	X	X	X		X	X		X	X	X	8	13
	X										1	1
	X	X	X				X	X			5	5
		X	X	X	X		X	X		X	7	11
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	16
	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X		8	12
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	16
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X			8	11
		X						X			2	2
	X						X				2	2
	X	X					X				3	3
								X			1	1
		X		X	X	X		X			5	8
	X			X			X	X	X		5	7
	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X		8	11
	X			X	X		X	X	X		6	9
	X	X		X							3	4
		X									1	1
	X	X						X			3	3
		X									1	1
	X	X						X			3	3
		X									1	1
		X									1	1
	X	X	X	X				X	X	X	7	11
	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	9	15
	X	X				X	X	X			5	6
								X			1	1
	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X		8	11
	X	X		X	X	X	X	X		X	8	13
	X	X	X	X			X	X		X	7	10
								X			1	1
		X						X			2	2
		X	X						X		3	4
				X							1	2
	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	9	14
		X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	8	14
	X			X		X		X			4	6
	X	X					X				3	3
		X									1	1
		X									1	1
		X	X	X				X			4	5
	X	X	X				X				4	4
		X						X			2	2
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	16
	X	X									2	2
		X						X			2	2
Total: 63 NOCs	38	49	24	27	20	16	26	41	20	12	277	388

Men's events

Windsurfer – RS:X

	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor at Games
	Host Country		Nick Dempsey
	2011 Worlds	1	Dorian van Rijsselberghe
	2011 Worlds	2	Przemysław Miarczyński
	2011 Worlds	3	Shahar Tzuberi
	2011 Worlds	5	Jon-Paul Tobin
	2011 Worlds	7	Byron Kokkalanis
	2011 Worlds	8	Julien Bontemps
	2011 Worlds	9	Iván Pastor
	2011 Worlds	10	João Rodrigues
10	2011 Worlds	11	Ricardo Santos
11	2011 Worlds	12	Zachary Plavsic
12	2011 Worlds	15	Toni Wilhelm
13	2011 Worlds	16	Andreas Cariolou
14	2011 Worlds	21	Richard Stauffacher
15	2011 Worlds	22	Maksym Oberemko
16	2011 Worlds	23	Mariano Reutemann
17	2011 Worlds	24	Wang Aichen
18	2011 Worlds	25	Lee Tae-hoon
19	2011 Worlds	26	Makoto Tomizawa
20	2011 Worlds	28	Áron Gádorfalvi
21	2011 Worlds	29
22	2011 Worlds	30	Luka Mratović
23	2011 Worlds	33	Sebastian Wang-Hansen
24	2011 Worlds	36	Federico Esposito
25	2011 Worlds	37	Juozas Bernotas
26	2011 Worlds	38	Robert Willis
27	2011 Worlds	39	Dmitry Polishchuk
28	2011 Worlds	42	David Mier
–	2011 Worlds	43
29	2012 Worlds	41	Mikalai Zhukavets
30	2012 Worlds	52	Karel Lavický
31	2012 Worlds	53	Santiago Grillo
32	2012 Worlds	56	Ek Boonsawad
33	2012 Worlds	59	Yoan Kolev
34	2012 Worlds	61	Daniel Flores
35	2012 Worlds	62	Johannes Ahun
36	2012 Worlds	66	Sebastian Fleischer
37	2012 Worlds	70	Chang Hao
38	Unused Quotas		Ahmed Habash

One-person dinghy – Laser

	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor	Sailor at Games
	Host Country			Paul Goodison
		1		Tom Slingsby
	2011 Worlds	3		Andrew Murdoch
	2011 Worlds	4		Simon Grotelüschen
	2011 Worlds	6		Andreas Geritzer
	2011 Worlds	8		Rasmus Myrgren
	2011 Worlds	10		Pavlos Kontides
	2011 Worlds	11		Tonči Stipanović
	2011 Worlds	12		Jean-Baptiste Bernaz
10	2011 Worlds	14		Rob Crane
11	2011 Worlds	15		Bruno Fontes
15	2011 Worlds	18		Julio Alsogaray
19	2011 Worlds	20		Ha Jee-min
14	2011 Worlds	21		David Wright
12	2011 Worlds	25	Karol Porozyński	Kacper Ziemiński
13	2011 Worlds	26		Rutger van Schaardenburg
17	2011 Worlds	29		Evangelos Cheimonas
23	2011 Worlds	32		Juan Ignacio Maegli
–	2011 Worlds	38
16	2011 Worlds	39		Zsombor Berecz
21	2011 Worlds	40		Javier Hernández
18	2011 Worlds	41		Matías del Solar
20	2011 Worlds	42		Karl-Martin Rammo
22	2011 Worlds	45	Marco Gallo	Michele Regolo
24	2011 Worlds	49		Thorbjørn Schierup
–	2011 Worlds	51
25	2011 Worlds	52		Alejandro Foglia
26	2011 Worlds	56		Cy Thompson
27	2011 Worlds	57		Igor Lisovenko
28	2011 Worlds	62		Wannes Van Laer
29	2011 Worlds	64		Kristian Ruth
30	2011 Worlds	67		Karlo Hmeljak
31	2011 Worlds	68		Colin Cheng
32	2011 Worlds	70		Mattias Lindfors
33	2011 Worlds	73		Mustafa Çakır
34	2011 Worlds	75		Shi Jian
35	2012 Worlds	22		Gustavo Lima
36	2012 Worlds	37		James Espey
37	2012 Worlds	47		Rokas Milevičius
38	2012 Worlds	48		Youssef Akrout
39	2012 Worlds	49		Valeriy Kudryashov
40	2012 Worlds	51		Keerati Bualong
41	2012 Worlds	81		Andrey Quintero
42	2012 Worlds	88		José Ruiz
43	2012 Worlds	89		Viktor Teplý
44	2012 Worlds	91		Khairulnizam Afendy
45	2012 Worlds	92		Andrew Lewis
46	2012 Worlds	94		Ricardo Montemayor
47	Tripartite			Damien Desprat
48	Tripartite			Milivoj Dukić
49	Unused Quotas			Ilya Ignatiev

Heavyweight one-person dinghy – Finn

	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor at Games
	Host Country		Ben Ainslie
		2	Pieter-Jan Postma
	2011 Worlds	4	Jonas Høgh Christensen
	2011 Worlds	5	Rafael Trujillo
	2011 Worlds	6	Jonathan Lobert
	2011 Worlds	8	Deniss Karpak
	2011 Worlds	9	Zach Railey
	2011 Worlds	10	Ivan Kljaković Gašpić
	2011 Worlds	12	Tapio Nirkko
10	2011 Worlds	13	Vasilij Žbogar
11	2011 Worlds	14	Daniel Birgmark
12	2011 Worlds	16	Greg Douglas
13	2011 Worlds	19	Brendan Casey
14	2011 Worlds	20	Ioannis Mitakis
15	2011 Worlds	21	Dan Slater
16	2011 Worlds	22	Oleksiy Borysov
17	2011 Worlds	24	Filippo Baldassari
18	2011 Worlds	32	Jorge Zarif
19	2011 Worlds	33	Eduard Skornyakov
20	2012 Worlds	6	Piotr Kula
–	2012 Worlds	20
21	2012 Worlds	23	Florian Raudaschl
22	2012 Worlds	24	Michael Maier
23	2012 Worlds	29	Alican Kaynar
24	2012 Worlds	30	Gong Lei

Two-person dinghy – 470

	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailors	Sailors at Games
	Host Country			Luke Patience Stuart Bithell
		1		Mathew Belcher Malcolm Page
	2011 Worlds	3		Šime Fantela Igor Marenić
	2011 Worlds	4		Gideon Kliger Eran Sela
	2011 Worlds	5		Pierre Leboucher Vincent Garos
	2011 Worlds	7		Panagiotis Kampouridis Efstathios Papadopoulos
	2011 Worlds	8		Paul Snow-Hansen Jason Saunders
	2011 Worlds	9		Onán Barreiros Aarón Sarmiento
	2011 Worlds	11		Anton Dahlberg Sebastian Östling
10	2011 Worlds	13		Stuart McNay Graham Biehl
11	2011 Worlds	15		Ferdinand Gerz Patrick Follmann
12	2011 Worlds	16		Ryunosuke Harada Yugo Yoshida
13	2011 Worlds	17		Álvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes
14	2011 Worlds	18		Sven Coster Kalle Coster
15	2011 Worlds	20		Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente
16	2011 Worlds	21	Matthias Schmid Florian Reichstädter	Matthias Schmid Florian Reichstädter
17	2011 Worlds	22		Joonas Lindgren Niklas Lindgren
18	2011 Worlds	24		Gabrio Zandonà Pietro Zucchetti
19	2011 Worlds	26		Yannick Brauchli Romuald Hausser
20	2011 Worlds	28		Wang Weidong Deng Daokun
21	2012 Worlds	15		Mikhail Sheremetyev Maksim Sheremetyev
22	2012 Worlds	20		Park Gun-woo Cho Sung-Min
23	2012 Worlds	22		Luke Ramsay Mike Leigh
24	2012 Worlds	23		Deniz Çınar Ateş Çınar
25	2012 Worlds	24		Gerald Owens Scott Flanigan
26	2012 Worlds	31		Benjamín Grez Diego González
27	2012 Worlds	32		Asenathi Jim Roger Hudson

Skiff – 49er

	Qualification Tournament	Place at Event	Sailors at Games
	Host Country		Stevie Morrison Ben Rhodes
		1	Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen
	2011 Worlds	2	Peter Burling Blair Tuke
	2011 Worlds	3	Allan Nørregaard Peter Lang
	2011 Worlds	7	Nico Delle-Karth Nikolaus Resch
	2011 Worlds	9	Erik Storck Trevor Moore
	2011 Worlds	10	Ryan Seaton Matt McGovern
	2011 Worlds	11	Tobias Schadewaldt Hannes Baumann
	2011 Worlds	12	Łukasz Przybytek Pawel Kolodzinski
10	2011 Worlds	15	Stéphane Christidis Emmanuel Dyen
11	2011 Worlds	16
12	2011 Worlds	19	Lauri Lehtinen Kalle Bask
13	2011 Worlds	21	Niclas Düring Jonas von Geijer
14	2011 Worlds	23	Bernardo Freitas Francisco Andrade
15	2011 Worlds	25	Pavle Kostov Petar Cupać
16	2012 Worlds	9	Jesse Kirkland Alexander Kirkland
17	2012 Worlds	16	Giuseppe Angilella Gianfranco Sibello
18	2012 Worlds	21	Gordon Cook Hunter Lowden
19	2012 Worlds	22	Dionisios Dimou Michail Pateniotis
20	2012 Worlds	23	Yukio Makino Kenji Takahashi

Keelboat – Star

	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailors at Games
	Host Country		Iain Percy Andrew Simpson
	2011 Worlds	1	Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada
	2011 Worlds	2	Robert Stanjek Frithjof Kleen
	2011 Worlds	3	Mark Mendelblatt Brian Fatih
	2011 Worlds	4	Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Życki
	2011 Worlds	5	Fredrik Lööf Max Salminen
	2011 Worlds	6	Eivind Melleby Petter Mørland Pedersen
	2011 Worlds	7	Xavier Rohart Pierre-Alexis Ponsot
	2011 Worlds	10	Richard Clarke Tyler Bjorn
10	2011 Worlds	12	Peter O'Leary David Burrows
11	2011 Worlds	13	Afonso Domingos Frederico Melo
12	2011 Worlds	16	Flavio Marazzi Enrico De Maria
13	2012 Worlds	3	Michael Hestbæk Claus Olesen
14	2012 Worlds	7	Hamish Pepper Jim Turner
15	2012 Worlds	8	Aimilios Papathanasiou Antonis Tsotras
16	2012 Worlds	12	Marin Lovrović Jr. Dan Lovrović

Women's events

Windsurfer – RS:X

	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailor at Games
	Host Country		Bryony Shaw^[7]
		1	Lee Korzits
	2011 Worlds	2	Zofia Noceti-Klepacka
	2011 Worlds	3	Marina Alabau
	2011 Worlds	4	Li Ling
	2011 Worlds	5	Charline Picon
	2011 Worlds	9	Alessandra Sensini
	2011 Worlds	10	Olha Maslivets
	2011 Worlds	14	Moana Delle
10	2011 Worlds	15	Nikola Girke
14	2011 Worlds	16	Tuuli Petäjä
10	2011 Worlds	17	Jessica Crisp
15	2011 Worlds	21
11	2011 Worlds	23
–	2011 Worlds	26
17	2011 Worlds	28	Irina Konstantinova-Bontemps
13	2011 Worlds	29	Patrícia Freitas
16	2011 Worlds	30	Sigrid Rondelez
18	2011 Worlds	33	Yuki Sunaga
19	2011 Worlds	36	Angeliki Skarlatou
20	2011 Worlds	39	Diána Detre
–	2012 Worlds	32
21	2012 Worlds	40	Farrah Hall
22	2012 Worlds	42	Jazmín López Becker
23	2012 Worlds	44	Tatiana Bazyuk
24	2012 Worlds	48	Ingrid Puusta
25	2012 Worlds	49	Napalai Tansai
26	2012 Worlds	52	Carolina Mendelblatt

One-person dinghy – Laser Radial

	Qualification Tournament	Place in QT	Sailor at Games
	Host Country		Alison Young
	2011 Worlds	1	Marit Bouwmeester
	2011 Worlds	2	Evi Van Acker
	2011 Worlds	3	Paige Railey
	2011 Worlds	4	Veronika Fenclová
	2011 Worlds	5	Gintarė Scheidt
	2011 Worlds	6	Annalise Murphy
	2011 Worlds	8	Tatiana Drozdovskaya
	2011 Worlds	9	Sari Multala
10	2011 Worlds	10	Sara Winther
11	2011 Worlds	12	Nathalie Brugger
12	2011 Worlds	13	Josefin Olsson
13	2011 Worlds	14	Anne-Marie Rindom
14	2011 Worlds	18	Franziska Goltz
15	2011 Worlds	19	Krystal Weir
16	2011 Worlds	21	Sarah Steyaert
17	2011 Worlds	24	Francesca Clapcich
18	2011 Worlds	25	Xu Lijia
19	2011 Worlds	27	Alicia Cebrián
20	2011 Worlds	31	Cecilia Carranza Saroli
21	2011 Worlds	32	Tina Mihelić
22	2011 Worlds	35	Tania Elías Calles
23	2011 Worlds	36	Danielle Dube
24	2011 Worlds	41	Adriana Kostiw
25	2011 Worlds	43	Nufar Edelman
26	2011 Worlds	44	Nazli Çagla Dönertas
27	2011 Worlds	53	Elizabeth Yue Ling Yin
28	2011 Worlds	54	Sara Carmo
29	2011 Worlds	57	Manami Doi
30	2011 Worlds	58	Marthe Enger Eide
31	2012 Worlds	25	Svetlana Shnitko
32	2012 Worlds	32	Anna Weinzieher
33	2012 Worlds	37	Philipine van Aanholt
34	2012 Worlds	46	Andrea Aldana
35	2012 Worlds	57	Andrea Foglia
36	2012 Worlds	65	Anna Agrafioti
37	2012 Worlds	71	Anna Pohlak
38	2012 Worlds	73	Mayumi Roller
39	2012 Worlds	74	Paloma Schmidt
40	Tripartite		Helema Williams
41	Tripartite		Beth Lygoe

Two-person dinghy – 470

	Qualification Tournament	Place in Event	Sailors at Games
	Host Country		Hannah Mills Saskia Clark
		1	Tara Pacheco Berta Betanzos
	2011 Worlds	3	Jo Aleh Polly Powrie
	2011 Worlds	4	Gil Cohen Vered Buskila
	2011 Worlds	5	Giulia Conti Giovanna Micol
	2011 Worlds	6	Ai Kondo Wakako Tabata
	2011 Worlds	8	Fernanda Oliveira Ana Barbachan
	2011 Worlds	9	Elise Rechichi Belinda Stowell
	2011 Worlds	10	Lisa Westerhof Lobke Berkhout
10	2011 Worlds	11	Camille Lecointre Mathilde Géron
11	2011 Worlds	12	Amanda Clark Sarah Lihan
12	2011 Worlds	16	Lisa Ericson Astrid Gabrielsson
13	2011 Worlds	17	María Fernanda Sesto Consuelo Monsegur
14	2011 Worlds	19	Tina Mrak Teja Černe
15	2011 Worlds	20	Kathrin Kadelbach Friederike Belcher
16	2012 Worlds	7	Henriette Koch Lene Sommer
17	2012 Worlds	15	Wang Xiaoli Huang Xufeng
18	2012 Worlds	21	Agnieszka Skrzypulec Jolanta Ogar
19	2012 Worlds	24	Enia Ninčević Romana Župan
20	2012 Worlds	25	Lara Vadlau Eva-Maria Schimak

Match racing – Elliott 6m

	Qualification Tournament	Place in QT	Sailors	Sailors at Games
	Host Country			Lucy MacGregor Annie Lush Kate MacGregor
		1		Anna Tunnicliffe Deborah Capozzi Molly Vandemoer
	2011 Worlds	3		Claire Leroy Élodie Bertrand Marie Riou
	2011 Worlds	4		Ekaterina Skudina Elena Siuzeva Elena Oblova
	2011 Worlds	5		Olivia Price Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty
	2011 Worlds	6		Anna Kjellberg Malin Källström Lotta Harrysson
	2011 Worlds	7		Annemieke Bes Marcelien de Koning Renee Groeneveld
	2011 Worlds	9		Stephanie Hazard Jenna Hansen Susannah Pyatt
	2011 Worlds	11		Rita Gonvalves Diana Neves Mariana Lobato
10	2012 Qualifier ^[8]	1		Silja Lehtinen Mikaela Wulff Silja Kanerva
11	2012 Qualifier	2		Támara Echegoyen Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro
12	2012 Qualifier	3	Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen Susanne Boidin Tina Schmidt Gramkov	Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen Susanne Boidin Tina Schmidt Gramkov

External links

2011 ISAF World Championships

Notes and References

Web site: RS:X Regatta Calendar . RS:X Class Association . 10 Aug 2011 . 12 Aug 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110812182720/http://www.rsxclass.com/rsx-class-event-information/rsx-calendar-of-events . 2011-08-12.
Web site: ILCA Events Calendar . International Laser Class Association . 12 Aug 2011.
Web site: Future Championships . International 49er Class . 12 Aug 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110811045303/http://www.49er.org/content/view/32/42 . 2011-08-11.
Web site: 2012 Star Class World Championship . International Star Class Yacht Racing Association . 12 Aug 2011.
Web site: 470 Calendar . International 470 Class . 12 Aug 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110822163323/http://470.org/calendar.asp . 2011-08-22.
Web site: Future championships . International Finn Association, Inc. . 12 Aug 2011.
http://www.rya.org.uk/newsevents/news/Pages/SailorsnamedasfirstmembersofTeamGB.aspx Sailors named as first members of Team GB
Web site: Sail Sheboygan – US Sailing Center . 2012-02-06 . dead . https://archive.today/20120910163811/http://www.sailsheboygan.org/WMR-2012.php . 2012-09-10 .