Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Olympic event Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad (1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece). With the exception of 1904 and the canceled 1916 Summer Olympics, sailing has always been included on the Olympic schedule. The Sailing program of 1980 consisted of a total of six sailing classes (disciplines). For each class seven races were scheduled from 19 to 29 July 1980 of the coast of Tallinn (district of Pirita, in present-day Estonia), in that time an illegally annexed part of the USSR at the Baltic Sea. The sailing was done on the triangular type Olympic courses.<ref name="olympedia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Venue
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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. Since Moscow was not a suitable place the Olympic Yachting Centre in Pirita Tallinn was constructed for the 1980 Olympic Sailing event.
Competition
Overview
| Continents | Countries | Classes | Boats | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 23 | 6 | 83 | 156 | 0 |
Continents
- Europe
- Africa
- Americas
Countries
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
1980 Olympic boycott
The boycott affected the medalists in most sailing events with a number of European and World champions not participating. In the Soiling, the Canadian World champion team of Glen Dexter, Andreas Josenhans and [Sandy McMillan] was absent. Some British athletes participated in the Games under a neutral flag, but the sailing federation chose to join the boycott.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In several classes an alternative sailing event was organized by the boycotting nations, with the Flying Dutchman class having been held Luxembourg.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Classes (equipment)
| Class | Type | Event | Sailors | Trapeze | Mainsail | Jib/Genoa | Spinnaker | First OG | Olympics so far |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finn | Dinghy |  |
1 | 0 | + | – | – | 1952 | 8 |
| 470 | Dinghy | |
2 | 1 | + | + | + | 1976 | 2 |
| Flying Dutchman | Dinghy | |
2 | 1 | + | + | + | 1960 | 6 |
| Tornado | Catamaran | |
2 | 1 | + | + | – | 1976 | 2 |
| Star | Keelboat | |
2 | 0 | + | + | – | 1932 | 10 |
| Soling | Keelboat | |
3 | 0 | + | + | + | 1972 | 3 |
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Medal summary
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Medal table
Remarks
Sailors
During the sailing regattas at the 1980 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes:
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- Template:FlagIOCteam, Mihai Butucaru, later committee member of Eurosaf<ref>Eurosaf</ref>
References
Sources
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