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Sailing At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
The women's Laser Radial competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place between 8–16 August at Marina da Glória Marina da Glória is a marina located in the neighbourhood of Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This venue hosted the sailing events for the 2016 Summer Olympics within the Flamengo Park cluster, from 7 to 19 August 2016. and the 2016 Summer P .... Eleven races (the last one a medal race) were scheduled. Due to weather conditions the medal race was postponed a day. Schedule Results Further reading * * References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Women's Laser Radial Women's Laser Radial Laser Radial Women's events at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Da Glória
Marina da Glória is a marina located in the neighbourhood of Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This venue hosted the sailing events for the 2016 Summer Olympics within the Flamengo Park cluster, from 7 to 19 August 2016. and the 2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum .... It also hosted the draw procedure for the Qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. References Rio2016.org.br bid package.Volume 2. p. 18. Guanabara Bay Olympic sailing venues Sports venues in Rio de Janeiro (city) Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics Sports venues completed in 2016 2016 establishments in Brazil {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marit Bouwmeester
Marit Bouwmeester (; born 17 June 1988 Wartena) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Bouwmeester won the gold medal in the Laser Radial class in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Weymouth. In 2017, she won the World Sailor of the Year Award. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in Laser Radial The Laser Radial or ILCA 6 is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy, originally built by Laser Performance. It is a singlehanded boat, meaning that it is sailed by one person. The Laser Radial is a variant of the Laser standard, .... References External links * * * * Dutch female sailors (sport) Living people 1988 births People from Boarnsterhim Sportspeople from Friesland Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Olympic sailors of the Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annalise Murphy
Annalise Murphy (born 1 February 1990) is an Irish sailor who won a silver medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, in Laser Radial. Life She is a native of a suburb of Dublin. Her mother Cathy McAleavy, competed as a sailor in the 1988 Summer Olympics. competing in the 470 class at the Olympics in Seoul in 1988. Career Murphy competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's Laser Radial class. She won her first four days of sailing at the London Olympics and, on the fifth day, came in 8th and 19th position. On the sixth day of sailing she came 2nd and 10th and slipped down to second, just one point behind the Belgian world number one. She was a very strong contender for the gold medal but in the medal race she was overtaken on the final leg by her competitors and finished in 4th, her personal best at a world class regatta. Murphy won her first major medal at an international event when she won gold at the 2013 European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Marie Rindom
Anne-Marie Rindom (born 14 June 1991 in Søllerød) is a Danish sailor. She competed in the Laser Radial class event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she placed 13th. She won the 2015 Women's Laser Radial World Championship. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the Laser Radial event. She won gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Laser Radial. In 2021, Rindom confirmed that she had joined the Denmark SailGP Team presented by ROCKWOOL to compete in Season 2 of SailGP SailGP is an international sailing competition using high performance F50 foiling catamarans, where teams compete across a season of multiple grands prix around the world. Its reigning champions are Tom Slingsby's Australia SailGP Team, who wo .... References External links * * * 1991 births Living people Danish female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of Denmark Olympic medalists in sailing Olympic bronze medalists for Denmark Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Sailor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
The women's Laser Radial was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy is a centre for the sport of sailing on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, on the south coast of England. The academy building is located in Osprey Quay on the northern tip of the island, and the wat .... Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 41 sailors, on 41 boats, from 41 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points. Schedule Course areas and course configurations For the Laser Radial course areas Portland, Nothe, West, and South were used. The location ''(50° 35.19’ N, 02° 26.54’ W)'' points to the center Portland course area, the location ''(50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W)'' points to the center of the Nothe course area, the location ''(50° 37 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
The women's Laser Radial is a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo that takes place between 25 July–1 August at Kamakura. 11 races (the last one a medal race) are scheduled. Medals were presented by IOC Member for Cuba Mrs Maria de la Caridad Colon Ruenes and World Sailing World Sailing (WS) is the world governing body for the sport of sailing recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). History The creation of the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) beg ... Chief Executive Officer David Graham. Schedule Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Women's Laser Radial Women's Laser Radial Women's events at the 2020 Summer Olympics Laser Radial class sailing competitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laser Radial
The Laser Radial or ILCA 6 is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy, originally built by Laser Performance. It is a singlehanded boat, meaning that it is sailed by one person. The Laser Radial is a variant of the Laser standard, with shorter mast and reduced sail area, allowing light sailors to sail in heavy winds. The International Class is recognised by World Sailing. Events Olympics The Laser Radial was chosen for singlehanded women discipline at the Summer Olympic starting with the 2008 summer games regatta in Qingdao, China. World championships Men's Laser Radial World Championship Women's Laser Radial World Championship Men's Youth Laser Radial World Championship Men's Youth Under 21 Laser Radial World Championship Men's Youth Under 17 Laser Radial World Championship Youth Sailing World Championships =Boys= =Girls= Women's Youth Laser Radial World Championship Women's Youth (Under 21) Laser Radial World Championship Women's Youth (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. Rio de Janeiro was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. 11,238 athletes from 207 nations took part in the 2016 Games, including first-time entrants Kosovo at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Kosovo, South Sudan at the 2016 Summer Olympics, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Refugee Olympic Team. With 306 sets of medals, the Games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009. These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city and at five separate venues in the Brazilian cities of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Lijia
Xu Lijia (; born 30 August 1987 in Shanghai) is a Chinese sailboat racer who won a bronze medal in women's Laser Radial class at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold medal in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she was the flag bearer for China at the closing ceremony. Early life and career Xu Lijia was born nearly deaf in one ear and nearly blind in one eye. She started swimming at age four and attended a sports school in the Changning District of Shanghai. When she was ten Xu was chosen by coach Zhang Jing to train for sailing. Just a year after she started sailing, Xu Lijia won the 1998 Chinese National Championships held in Hong Kong. In 1999, when she was twelve, Xu Lijia narrowly escaped death in a sudden storm while training on the open sea off the coast of Fujian Province with her coach and teammates. Wind speeds reached , resulting in high waves, capsizing their boats. They were stranded at sea for more than two hours before managing to return to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low-point System
Low-point system is a point system in the Racing Rules of Sailing The Racing Rules of Sailing (often abbreviated to RRS) govern the conduct of yacht racing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, model boat racing, dinghy racing and virtually any other form of racing around a course with more than one vessel while powered b ... where all the boats in each race of the series score the same number of points as they finish in the race, so that the first boat to cross the finish line gets one point, the second two points. Boats that don't start, finish, retires or are disqualified are scored one more point than the total entrants of the series. For example, in a series with nine entrants, a disqualified boat scores 10 points in the race it is disqualified in. The low-point scoring system is usually used to score individual events with a fixed number of entrants. For season long series of events where the numbers of participants varies from race to race alternative scoring systems are in use. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organizing Committee Of The Olympic And Paralympic Games Rio 2016
The Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016 ( pt, Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paralímpicos Rio 2016) was the organizing committee for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil. Board members The board members were: * Carlos Arthur Nuzman Carlos Arthur Nuzman (born 17 March 1942) is a Brazilian lawyer and former volleyball player, having competed professionally from 1957 to 1972 and represented the Brazil men's national volleyball team, national team between 1962 and 1968. Nuzman ... - President References External links * 2016 Summer Olympics 2016 Summer Paralympics Organising Committees for the Olympic Games Organising Committees for the Paralympic Games 2009 establishments in Brazil {{2016-Paralympics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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