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Women's Elliott 6m at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Elliott 6m
Venue	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates	29 July – 5 August
Competitors	36 from 12 nations
Teams	12 (boats)
Medalists
Támara Echegoyen Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro  Spain Olivia Price Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty  Australia Silja Lehtinen Silja Kanerva Mikaela Wulff  Finland

Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
RS:X	men	women
Laser Radial		women
Laser	men
Finn	open
470	men	women
49er	open
Elliott 6m		women
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The Women's Elliott 6m was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The competition followed a match race format. It consisted of a round-robin a quarter finals, semi-finals, petit-final and final series. The top eight crews from the round-robin were seeded into the quarter finals.

Summary

A total of 98 matches were sailed:

• Sixty-seven matches were sailed in the round robin (including the rematch between FIN and POR. Finland originally won the round robin race against Portugal, but this was annulled after a protest by Portugal due to a Portuguese boat getting stuck at the turning mark. Finland won the rescheduled race as well.)
• The quarter finals (best 3 out of 5) 16 matches were sailed.
• Semi-finals, best 2 out of 3 (best 3 out of 5) was planned. Russia appealed the decision to stop the semi-finals after 3 matches and the results of 4th match of the petite final to CAS. The appeal to the semi-finals decision was later rejected.) Six matches were sailed.
• Petit-final and final series (best 3 out of 5) 4 matches.
• In the final a total of 5 matches were sailed.

Schedule

Course areas and course configurations

For the Elliott 6m the majority of racing took place on course area Nothe, however some racing also occurred in the Portland area. The location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area. The target time for the course was 18 minutes. All races were conducted on windward/leeward course configurations of 2 laps.

Results

Round Robin

Rank	Country	AUS	RUS	ESP	USA	FIN	FRA	GBR	NED	NZL	DEN	POR	SWE		Races	Won	Lost	Points
1	Australia		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1		11	11	0	11
2	Russia	1 PEN		1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1		11	9	2	8
3	Spain	0	0		1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1		11	8	3	8
4	United States	0	0	0		1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1		11	8	3	8
5	Finland	0	0	1	0		1	0	0	1	1	1	1		11	6	5	6
6	France	0	1	0	0	0		0	1	1	1	1	1		11	6	5	6
7	Great Britain	0	0	0	0	1	1		0	0	1	1	1		11	5	6	5
8	Netherlands	0	0	0 DNF	0	1	0 DSQ	1		1	0	1	0		11	4	7	4
9	New Zealand	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1	1	1		11	4	7	4
10	Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	0 DNF	0	1	0		1	1		11	3	8	3
11	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0 DNF	0	0 DNF	0 DNF	0	0		1		11	1	10	1
12	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0			11	1	10	1

Legend:   – Qualified for next phase; DNF – Did not finish; DSQ – Disqualified; PEN – Penalty given by the protest committee;

Knock-out and Finals

	Knock Out 7 – 8 August 2012									Semi Finals 10 August 2012									Finals 11 August 2012
	8	Netherlands	0	1	0	0	x
	1	Australia	1	0	1	1	x
											Australia	0	1	1	x	x
											Finland	1	0	0	x	x
	5	Finland	1	1	0	1	x
	4	United States	0	0	1	0	x
																				Australia	0	1	0	1	0
																				Spain	1	0	1	0	1
	6	France	0	0	0	x	x
	3	Spain	1	1	1	x	x
											Spain	0	1	1	x	x			Third place
											Russia	1	0	0	x	x
	7	Great Britain	0	1	1	0	0													Finland	1	0	1	1	x
	2	Russia	1	0	0	1	1												4	Russia	0	1	0	0	x

5th to 8th place

Sail-offs for places 5–8, scheduled for August 9, were cancelled due to low winds. The Round-robin results were used for final placement.

Final ranking

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Crew	Round Robin	Knock out	Semi Finals	Finals
	Spain	Támara Echegoyen	Ángela Pumariega Sofía Toro	3	1	1	1
	Australia	Olivia Price	Nina Curtis Lucinda Whitty	1	1	1	2
	Finland	Silja Lehtinen	Silja Kanerva Mikaela Wulff	5	1	1	3
4	Russia	Ekaterina Skudina	Elena Oblova Elena Syuzeva	2	1	1	4
5	United States	Anna Tunnicliffe	Deborah Capozzi Molly O'Bryan – Vandemoer	4	5	-	-
6	France	Claire Leroy	Élodie Bertrand Marie Riou	6	6	-	-
7	Great Britain	Lucy MacGregor	Annie Lush Kate MacGregor	7	7	-	-
8	Netherlands	Renee Groeneveld	Annemieke Bes Marcelien Bos – de Koning	8	8	-	-
9	New Zealand	Stephanie Hazard	Jenna Hansen Susannah Pyatt	9	-	-	-
10	Denmark	Lotte Meldegaard Pedersen	Susanne Boidin Tina Gramkov	10	-	-	-
11	Portugal	Rita Gonçalves	Mariana Lobato Diana Neves	11	-	-	-
12	Sweden	Anna Kjellberg	Malin Källström Lotta Harrysson	12	-	-	-

Further reading

• "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
• "London 2012". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.

References

1. ^ "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Notice of Race" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
2. "Match race competition format". 2012 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
3. ^ "Semi-final & Petit final appeal (ОКР подал апелляцию в CAS по поводу результата полуфинала в классе "Эллиот 6")" (in Russian). Retrieved 4 April 2014.
4. "Lehtisen venekunnan voitto vesittyi – lähtö uusitaan". Retrieved 4 April 2014.
5. "CAS decision". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
6. "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
7. "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment" (PDF). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
8. "Women's Three Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.

• Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Elliott 6m
• Women's events at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• 2012 in women's sailing