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Sailing At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser
The Laser (dinghy), Laser was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre. Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled. Only ten races were completed including the medal race due to lack of wind. 43 sailors, on 43 boats, from 43 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race. Race schedule Course areas and course configurations For the Laser course areas A and C (Green) 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 Green 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. File:Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics Course area's.png, Course Areas File:70 Degree Trapezoid Outer Course 2008 Sailing Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingdao International Sailing Centre
The Qingdao International Sailing Centre () is a sailing marina located on the former site of the Beihai Shipyard by Qingdao's Fushan Bay at Shandong Province in China. It was constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Sailing competitions. Wind conditions vary greatly from very light winds to +15 knots. During the Olympic competitions, fog was also an occasional factor. The venue hosted “Good Luck Beijing - 2006" and in May 2008, the IFDS Qingdao International Regatta, where Olympic and Paralympic sailors got a headstart on familiarizing themselves with the venue and weather conditions. Access from the Qingdao Paralympic Village to the dock, work areas, etc. was provided by numerous golf carts making endless daytime rounds. Both ends of the work area had two cranes apiece, which could lift large keelboats like the Sonar from cradles and lower these into the water. At night, a laser light show from the main breakwater lighthouse would play from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavlos Kontides
Pavlos Kontides ( gr, Παύλος Κοντίδης, born 11 February 1990) is a Cypriot sailor. He became the first Cypriot athlete ever to win an Olympic medal for his country, by winning the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Laser class behind Tom Slingsby. On Tuesday 19 of September 2017, Kontides took the 1st place in 2017 ILCA World Championship in Split, Croatia, becoming a World Champion. He won the championship again in 2018, as well as a silver in 2013. Kontides also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Men's Laser class, obtaining the 13th place. In the same year, he won gold at the World Junior Championships and in 2009 he won two silver medals in World Cups and a bronze in the Paneuropean Men's Championship. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Men's Laser class where he placed 7th. He was the flag bearer for Cyprus during the Parade of Nations. He also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Men's Laser class where he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matías Del Solar
Matías Andrés del Solar Goldsmith (born 29 November 1975), known as Matías del Solar, is a Chilean sailor. He competed at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ... in the Men's Laser class. Notes References External links * * * 1975 births Living people Chilean male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Chile Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Laser Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Laser Pan American Games medalists in sailing Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile Pan American Games bronze medalists for Chile Sailors at the 2003 Pan American Games Sailors at the 2011 Pan American Games Sailor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Campbell (yachtsman)
Andrew W. Campbell (born 3 February 1984 in Toms River, New Jersey) is an American yachtsman. Raised in Toms River, New Jersey, Campbell first learned to sail as a child in Toms River with the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association and moved to San Diego, California at the age of eight. Campbell is the latest in a long lineage of sailing greats from the San Diego Yacht Club, in the unusual design of the Naples Sabot, commonly used for junior programs on the West Coast. He attended The Bishop's School in San Diego, CA suburb La Jolla. In the Snipe class, he was the 2001 District 6 Junior Champion. In the Star class he won the silver medal in the 2013 World Championship and the 2010 European Championship. College Campbell is the former Commodore of the Georgetown University Hoyas Sailing Team. At Georgetown, he led the #1 ranked Hoyas in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association National Championships by achieving three singlehanded national championships (2003, 2005 and 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deniss Karpak
Deniss Karpak (born 18 July 1986) is an Estonian sailor. Karpak was born in Tallinn. He finished 24th at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Laser class. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he finished 11th in the Finn class and at the 2016 Summer Olympics he finished 20th. Biography He was born to sailing athlete Igor Karpak and swimmer Marina Trofimova. He began his high school education in Odesa, Ukraine. When his family moved back to Estonia, he continued his studies at Tallinna Läänemere Gümnaasium, graduating in 2004. Karpak had his first sailing experience when he was six with an Optimist. He started to regularly engage in sailing when was 12 years old in 1998 with the sailing club "Baltsail". In 1999 Karpak moved to the sailing club Kalev Sailing School (KPSK). In 2003 he moved over to the Laser class. Since 2009 he has been sailing with the Finn The word Finn (''pl.'' Finns) usually refers to a member of the majority Balto-Finnic ethnic group of Finland, or to a person f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Nyholm
Anders Nyholm-Pedersen (born 30 March 1982) is a Danish former sailor, who specialized in the Laser class. He bagged won a silver medal in the Laser Radial class at the 2000 ISAF Youth World Championships in Çeşme, Turkey and later represented his native country Denmark in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008). Nyholm made his Olympic debut, as a 22-year-old, in Athens 2004, sailing in the Laser class. There, he accumulated a net grade of 203 points to end the eleven-race series with a twenty-second overall, a placement higher than Chile's Matías del Solar with respect to the opening leg. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nyholm qualified for his second Danish team in the Laser class. Building up his Olympic selection, he finished twenty-third out of 51 sailors advancing to the golden fleet to secure one of the twenty-nine quota places offered at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Slingsby
Tom Slingsby (born 5 September 1984) is a successful Australian competitive sailor. Slingsby's first successes came sailing Laser dinghys, where he won three consecutive world championships and the 2012 Olympic gold medal. Slingsby was the strategist for the America's Cup-winning Team Oracle USA in 2013. In 2016 he skippered the winner-of-line honours in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race line. Following this he skippered the Australian team in the inaugural SailGP competition. Career highlights 2007 – Won the Laser dinghy world championships. 2008 – Ranked number one in the Laser dinghy class prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics Laser competition but finished 22nd overall. 2008 – Won Australian Sailing Male Sailor of the Year Award 2010 – Won the Laser dinghy world championships at Hayling Island, UK. He was also named the male ISAF World Sailor of the Year. 2010 – Won the Etchells Class World Championship as crew with Andrew Palfry, with fellow America's Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barrows III
Thomas Barrows III (born November 2, 1987) is a sailor who lives in the United States Virgin Islands and attended Yale University, where he won the ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship in 2008 and earned the ICSA College Sailor of the Year Award in 2010. He competed on behalf of the Virgin Islands at the 2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ..., where he participated in the one-person Laser-class dinghy event. References * * External links * * * 1987 births Living people American male sailors (sport) United States Virgin Islands male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for the United States Olympic sailors for the United States Virgin Islands Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 49e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shen Sheng
Shen Sheng (born January 17, 1979, in Wuhan, Hubei) is a male Chinese sports sailor who has competed with Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Major performances *1999/2001/2004 National Championships - 1st Laser class; *2000/2006/2007 National Championships - 2nd/3rd/3rd Laser class; *2001 National Games - 1st Laser class; *2002 National Championships/Asian Games - 1st Laser Radial; *2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ... - 6th Laser class References * http://2008teamchina.olympic.cn/index.php/personview/personsen/835 1979 births Living people Chinese male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for China Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser Asian Games medalists in sailing Sportspeople from Wuhan Sailors at the 2006 Asian Games Sailo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Geritzer
Andreas Geritzer (born 11 December 1977, in Vienna) is an Austrian sailor in the Laser class. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney he finished fifth, four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he won the Silver medal. Geritzer resides and trains in Neusiedl am See. He has been married since 2005, and has a son. Achievements *EC-Bronze 1998 and 2005 *WC-Silver 2002 *Second place at Kiel Week The Kiel Week (german: Kieler Woche) or Kiel Regatta is an annual sailing event in Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the largest sailing event in Europe, and also one of the largest Volksfeste in Germany, attracting ... 2004 *Silver medal at the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens References External links * Homepage of Andreas Geritzer* * * 1977 births Living people Austrian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Austria Olympic silver medalists for Austria Olympic medalists in sailing Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemal Muslubaş
Kemal Muslubaş (born 30 December 1977 in Istanbul) is a retired Turkish sailor, who specialized in the Laser (dinghy), Laser class. Muslubas represented his nation Turkey in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), became a two-time national champion in the Laser class at the Turkish Championships, and also earned a silver medal at the 2005 Summer Universiade in his native Istanbul. Muslubas started his sporting career with his brother Akif Muslubas as members of the sailing team for Fenerbahçe S.K., Fenerbahçe Sport Club in 1988, and then transferred to Istanbul Yachting Club ( tr, İstanbul Yelken Kulübüne) twelve years later. Muslubas made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed thirty-third in the Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Laser, Laser regatta with a net grade of 256, despite a yachting malfunction in the last race that saw him tumble down the leaderboard. When his native Istanbul hosted the 2005 Summer Universiad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Foglia
Alejandro José Foglia Costa (born 30 January 1984, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan sailor in the Laser (dinghy), Laser and Finn (dinghy), Finn classes. He competed in four Summer Olympics for his native South American country: Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Laser class, 2004, Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Laser class, 2008, Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Laser class, 2012 and Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Finn, 2016, and in two Pan American Games: Sailing at the 2007 Pan American Games – Men's Laser class, 2007 and Sailing at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's Laser class, 2011. He was named Uruguay's flagbearer for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Results ;Olympic Games *Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Laser class, 2004: 34th *Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Laser class, 2008: 17th *Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Laser class, 2012: 8th *Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Finn, 2016: 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
