Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Soling
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The Soling Three Person Keelboat was sailed at the
2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
held from 17 to 30 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia. The series started as a fleet race and then switched to match racing for the twelve best crew. 16 crews from 16 countries competed on 16 boats with a total of 48 sailors. The Norwegian crew of Herman Horn Johannessen, Paul Davis and Espen Stokkeland finished first in the fleet racing stage, while Danish crew of Jesper Bank, Henrik Blakskjær and Thomas Jacobsen won the Olympic gold medal by beating the German crew of 1996 champion helmsman
Jochen Schümann Jochen Schümann (, ; born 8 June 1954 in East Berlin) is a German sailor and three-time Olympic champion. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he won a gold medal in the ''finn class''. He competed in the Soling class a ...
, Gunnar Bahr and Ingo Borkowski with 4–3 in the final series. Norway won the bronze medal through beating the Netherlands with 3–1 in matches.


Results


Fleet race

Points are assigned based on the finishing position in each race (1 for first, 2 for second, etc.). The points are totalled from the top 10 results of the 11 races, with lower totals being better. If a sailor was disqualified or did not complete the race, 26 points are assigned for that race (as there were 25 sailors in this competition).


Match race


Round robin 1


Round robin 2


Quarter-finals


Semi-finals


Match for third place


Final


References


Sources

* Results and weather take from https://web.archive.org/web/20050825083600/http://www.sailing.org/olympics2000/info2000/

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