Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics#Men's events

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According to the IOC statutes the contests in all sport disciplines must be held either in, or as close as possible to the city which the IOC has chosen. Among others, an exception is made for the Olympic sailing events, which customarily must be staged on the open sea. On account of this principle, Weymouth and Portland was selected for the honor to carry out the Olympic yachting regattas. For that purpose the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy was reconstructed.

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The land based part of the WPNSA includes:

• Administrative and game management center
• Media center
• The "Hangar" for measurement, social events and logistic center.
• (Inter)National sailing center
• Craning, mooring and slipway facilities

A total of five race areas were set on Weymouth Bay of the coast of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The exclusion area was limited by a fictive line between Portland and the mainland. All racing took place within this exclusion zone. The five course areas were positioned according to the table below the map but could be moved anywhere within the exclusion zone.

File:Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics Course areas.png{{clear}}

{{further|Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification}}

Fifty-seven nations qualified for the sailing events and a further six were allocated places not taken up by qualified nations to give a total of 63 nations participating. The only countries to have qualified in all events were France, New Zealand, the US and the hosts, Great Britain; New Zealand declined to take up their place in the Women's RS-X.

• Africa
• Asia
• Oceania
• Europe
• North America
• South America

[[File:Sailingmap OG 1972.png|thumb|260px|left|Countries that participated in the Sailing event of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Blue: Water

Gray: Never participated in OG

Dark Gray: Participated in earlier OG

Green: Country participated for the first time

Dark Blue: Country participated also on previous games

Red: Country boycotted the sailing event of the OG]]

{{Gallery

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{{Medals table

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| gold_AUS = 3 | silver_AUS = 1 | bronze_AUS = 0

| gold_ESP = 2 | silver_ESP = 0 | bronze_ESP = 0

| gold_GBR = 1 | silver_GBR = 4 | bronze_GBR = 0

| gold_NED = 1 | silver_NED = 1 | bronze_NED = 1

| gold_NZL = 1 | silver_NZL = 1 | bronze_NZL = 0

| gold_SWE = 1 | silver_SWE = 0 | bronze_SWE = 1

| gold_CHN = 1 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 0

| gold_DEN = 0 | silver_DEN = 1 | bronze_DEN = 1

| gold_FIN = 0 | silver_FIN = 1 | bronze_FIN = 1

| gold_CYP = 0 | silver_CYP = 1 | bronze_CYP = 0

| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 0 | bronze_POL = 2

| gold_ARG = 0 | silver_ARG = 0 | bronze_ARG = 1

| gold_BEL = 0 | silver_BEL = 0 | bronze_BEL = 1

| gold_BRA = 0 | silver_BRA = 0 | bronze_BRA = 1

| gold_FRA = 0 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 1

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• {{cite web |title=Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008) |url=http://search.la84.org/search |work=Digital Library Collection at la84.org |publisher=la84foundation |access-date=3 March 2014}}
• {{IOC games|games=2012 Summer Olympics }}

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{{cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/SailingInstructionsOG2012final-[12499].pdf |title=2012 Summer Olympics Sailing Instructions |author=World Sailing |publisher=World Sailing (ISAF) |language=EN |page=20 |access-date=20 February 2018}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/Courseplan25Jul12-%5B12370%5D.pdf |title=London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment |date=25 July 2012 |access-date=1 April 2014}}

{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2012/SAI/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417054834/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2012/SAI/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Sailing at the 2012 London Summer Games |work=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=1 April 2014}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/olympics/london2012/qualification/nations_qualified.php |title=Nations Qualified |work=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |publisher=International Sailing Federation |access-date=1 April 2014}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.sail-world.com/NZ/2012-Olympics:-Olympic-place-rejection-signals-the-end-of-an-Era/98793 |title=2012 Olympics: Olympic place rejection signals the end of an era |publisher=Sail World |access-date=1 April 2014}}

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• {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130228083838/http://www.london2012.com/sailing/ |date=dmy |title=Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London2012.com.}}
• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511033426/http://www.london2012.com/mm/Document/sport/General/01/40/78/55/SAResultsBookV1_Neutral.pdf |date=dmy |title=Official results book – Sailing. London2012.com.}}
• {{SR/Olympics sport at games|archive=20160303225214}}

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Category:Events at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Category:Sport in Dorset

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