Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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| Venues | Tallinn | |||||||||||||||
| Dates |
First race: 21 July 1980 Last race: 29 July 1980 | |||||||||||||||
| Sailors | 154 from 23 countries | |||||||||||||||
| Boats | 83 | |||||||||||||||
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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 possible 1916 sailing was always a part of the Olympic program. 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 that time an annexed part of the USSR at the Baltic Sea. The sailing was done on the triangular type Olympic courses.
Venue
| The Olympic Yachting Centre in Pirita | |
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 Pirita Olympic Yachting Center | |
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| Town or city | Tallinn |
| Country |
 Estonia |
| Coordinates | 59°28′13″N 24°49′6″E / 59.47028°N 24.81833°ECoordinates: 59°28′13″N 24°49′6″E / 59.47028°N 24.81833°E |
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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 |
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| 3 | 23 | 6 | 83 | 154 | 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
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1980 Olympic Boycott
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.[1] The Tallinn boycott influenced most sailing events. e.g. In the Soling the Canadian team of: Bill Abbott jr., Bill Abbott sr. and Larry Abbott were absent. In several countries boycott parties or alternative sailing events, like a Flying Dutchman event in Luxembourg, were organized.
Classes (equipment)
| Class | Type | Event | Sailors | Trapeze | Mainsail | Jib/Genoa | Spinnaker | First OG | Olympics so far |
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| 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
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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 1980: Finn |
 Finland (FIN)Esko Rechardt |
 Austria (AUT)Wolfgang Mayrhofer |
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 1980: 470 |
.svg.png){kind=small} Brazil (BRA)Marcos Soares Eduardo Penido |
 East Germany (GDR)Jorn Borowski Egbert Swensson |
Finland (FIN) Jouko Lindgrén Georg Tallberg |
 1980: Flying Dutchman |
 Spain (ESP)Alejandro Abascal Miguel Noguer |
Ireland (IRL) David Wilkins James Wilkinson |
 Hungary (HUN)Szabolcs Detre Zsolt Detre |
 1980: Tornado |
Brazil (BRA) Lars Sigurd Bjorkström Alexandre Welter |
Denmark (DEN) Peter Due Per Kjergard |
 Sweden (SWE)Göran Marström Jörgen Ragnarsson |
 1980: Star |
Soviet Union (URS) Valentin Mankin Aleksandr Muzychenko |
Austria (AUT) Hubert Raudaschl Karl Ferstl |
Italy (ITA) Giorgio Gorla Alfio Peraboni |
 1980: Soling |
Denmark (DEN) Poul Richard Høj Jensen Valdemar Bandolowski Erik Hansen |
Soviet Union (URS) Boris Budnikov Alexandr Budnikov Nikolay Poliakov |
 Greece (GRE)Anastasios Bountouris Anastasios Gavrilis Aristidis Rapanakis |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Brazil | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Denmark | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Finland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Austria | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | East Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Remarks
Sailors
During the sailing regattas at the 1980 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes:
- Soviet Union (URS), Valentin Mankin multi medalist in the Star
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Romania (ROM), Mihai Butucaru later committee member of Eurosaf[2]
References
- ↑ Smothers, Ronald (19 July 1996). "OLYMPICS;Bitterness Lingering Over Carter's Boycott". The New York Times.
- ↑ Eurosaf
- (ed.) I. T. Novikov (1981). Games of the XXII Olympiad,Volume I: Organization (PDF). Moscow: OCOG-80. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- (ed.) I. T. Novikov (1981). Games of the XXII Olympiad,Volume II: Facilities (PDF). Moscow: OCOG-80. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- (ed.) I. T. Novikov (1981). Games of the XXII Olympiad,Volume III: Results (PDF). Moscow: OCOG-80. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- Kubatko, Justin. "Sailing at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Sailing". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- Hugh Drake & Paul Henderson (2009). Canada's Olympic Sailing Legacy, Paris 1924 – Beijing 2008. Toronto: CYA.
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