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Sailing At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification
Qualification rules A nation may earn up to 1 boat in each of the 11 Sailing events. Summary Qualification Timeline Men's events Windsurfer – RS:X One-person dinghy – Laser Two-person dinghy – 470 Keelboat – Star Women's events Windsurfer – RS:X One-person dinghy – Laser Radial Two-person dinghy – 470 Keelboat – Yngling Open events Heavyweight one-person dinghy – Finn Skiff – 49er Multihull – Tornado References ISAF - Nations Qualified {{DEFAULTSORT:Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification Qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics Sailing qualification for the Summer Olympics, 2008 Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Qualification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Santos (sailor)
Ricardo Winicki Santos (born 8 May 1980 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian windsurfer. He has competed at the Olympics since 2000, firstly in the Mistral One Design Class The Mistral One Design Class (MOD) is a windsurfing class chosen by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) for use at the Olympic Regatta in Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. Starting with the 2008 Summer Olympics it was replaced b ..., and currently the RS:X (sailboard). Results References External links * * * 1980 births Living people Brazilian male sailors (sport) Brazilian windsurfers Olympic sailors for Brazil Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – RS:X Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Sailors at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Áron Gádorfalvi
Áron Gádorfalvi (born 5 December 1976 in Budapest) is a Hungarian windsurfer, who specializes in Mistral and Neil Pryde RS:X classes. He represented Hungary in all five editions of the Olympic Games since 1996, and has been training at Axon SE, Gradus SK, and Balatonfuredi Yacht Club in Balatonfured for most of his sporting career under personal coaches Lorand Utassy and László Ficsór. As of September 2013, Gádorfalvi is ranked no. 48 in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation. As an 18-year-old, Gádorfalvi made his official debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he placed thirty-ninth in men's Mistral sailboard with a net score of 313 points. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Gádorfalvi produced a stellar performance with a sterling grade of 177 to pick up a twenty-fourth spot in the same program. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Gadorfalvi finished twenty-second in men's Mistral with a net score of 192, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ertuğrul İçingir
Ertuğrul İçingir (born 22 November 1975 in Adana) is a Turkish windsurfer. He has competed in three time Olympic Games, firstly in the Mistral One Design Class, and then at the 2008 Summer 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 Na ... RS:X (sailboard) event. Results References External links * * * 1975 births Living people Turkish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Turkey Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Turkish windsurfers Sportspeople from Adana {{Turkey-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper Bouman
Casper Bouman (born 2 October 1985, in The Hague) is a windsurfer from the Netherlands. Bouman represented his country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt .... Bouman took 15th place on the Men's RS:X. Nowadays Bouman is ''Sports coach'' and ''Professional Surfer''. Further reading 2008 Olympics (Qingdao) * * * * * * References External links * * * 1985 births Living people Dutch windsurfers Dutch male sailors (sport) RS:X class world champions Olympic sailors for the Netherlands Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Sportspeople from The Hague {{Windsurfing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Ashley
Thomas John Mitchell Ashley (born 11 February 1984 in Auckland) is a sailor from New Zealand, who won the gold medal in the men's sailboard event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, he also won the 2008 RS:X World Championships. He is the Olympic champion and the 2008 World champion. Ashley attended Westlake Boys High School in Auckland, which had earlier fostered the development of other notable sailors, including Chris Dickson and Dean Barker. Ashley placed 2nd two years previous at the 2006 World Championships. During the event the top-10 sailors were selected to sail the final race, called the medal race. Before the start of the medal race Ashley was in first position, only one point in front of Casper Bouman from the Netherlands. Bouman finished second in the medal race, one position in front of Ashley. Both sailors then had the same points (23), but Bouman was crowned as the World champion thanks to his better position during the medal race. In the 2009 New Year Honours, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Stauffacher
Richard Stauffacher (born 28 August 1982) is a Swiss windsurfer. He has competed at the Olympics since 2004 in the RS:X. Results References External links * * * 1982 births Living people Swiss windsurfers Swiss male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Switzerland Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X {{Switzerland-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabian Heidegger
Fabian Heidegger (born 4 August 1988) is an Italian former windsurfer, who specialized in the RS:X class. He represented his country Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing among the top twenty windsurfers in his signature sailboard. Heidegger trained most of his competitive sporting career, as a member of the sailing roster for A.V.L. Caldaro, under the tutelage of his personal coach Paolo Ghione. Heidegger competed for the Italian sailing squad, as a 20-year-old, in the inaugural men's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Building up to his Olympic selection, he scored a commendable, eleventh-place finish at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal to lock the country's top RS:X spot for the Games. Heidegger started the series comfortably with a superb top-eight mark on the third leg, before fading steadily towards the middle of the 35-man fleet and never looked back, sitting him in the top twenty overall position with 138 net points. Heidegger sought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis
Nikolaos "Nikos" Kaklamanakis ( el, Νικόλαος Κακλαμανάκης, born August 19, 1968, in Athens) is the Greece, Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was named one of the 1996 Greek Male Athlete of the Year, Greek Male Athletes of the Year. Kaklamanakis participated in five consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2008, reaching the medal race in all five of them. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Olympics in Athens, while he was ninth in Barcelona (1992), sixth in Sydney (2000) and eighth in Beijing (2008). Biography One of the most popular athletes in Greece, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis is a three-time Mistral class windsurfing world champion and a gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Sailing. He won silver in the event at the 2003 World Championships in Cádiz, Spain, behind Przemek Miarc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahar Tzuberi
Shahar Tzuberi (or Zubari, he, שחר צוברי; born September 1, 1986) is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic bronze medalist, surfing in the "Neil Pryde" RS:X discipline. He is a nephew of Gad Tsobari, the 1972 Olympic wrestler who escaped from Arab terrorists during the Munich massacre. He is a three-time Olympian. Early life Tzuberi was born in Eilat, Israel, to a family of both Mizrahi Jewish ( Yemenite-Jewish) and Ashkenazi Jewish descent. He began surfing at the age of 7, encouraged by his father, Ze'ev "Poodle" Tzuberi. After winning a number of local surfing competitions, he began training professionally. Tzuberi joined the Israel Defense Forces in 2005 and received an "Athlete of Excellence" status, allowing him to compete in international competitions. He went through recruit training in the Zikim base and then became a quartermaster in the Israeli navy base in Eilat, his hometown. His cousin is Israeli surfer Hadar Heller. Windsurfing career Early years Tzuberi's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Bontemps
Julien Francis Bontemps (born 1 June 1979 in Épinal, Vosges) is a male windsurfer from France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ..., who won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is married to Irina Konstantinova, an Olympic windsurfer. References External links * * * 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Épinal French windsurfers Olympic sailors of France French male sailors (sport) Olympic silver medalists for France Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Pastor
Iván Pastor Lafuente (born 18 February 1980 in Alicante) is a Spanish windsurfer. He competed at the men's sailboard event in the 2004 Summer Olympics, when the Mistral class was the sailboard event, and the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ... when the sailboard class was the RS-X. In 2005 he won a bronze medal at the Mistral European Championship. In addition, he won a silver medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games held in Tunisia, in the Mistral class. Notes References External links * * * 1980 births Living people Spanish windsurfers Spanish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Spain Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Tornado Sailors at the 2008 Summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
