Sailing
The United States qualified in all 11 Olympic sailing classes and sent 18 athletes to the races in Qingdao, China. Laser Radial sailor Anna Tunnicliffe and Finn sailor Zach Railey became the first American sailors to win Olympic medals in their respective classes since 1992.
- Men
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | M* | ||||
| Ben Barger | RS:X | 21 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 18 | 25 | 31 | EL | 218 | 26 | |
| Andrew Campbell | Laser | 14 | 18 | 1 | 26 | 32 | 8 | DSQ | 31 | CAN | EL | 174 | 26 | |
| Graham Biehl Stu McNay |
470 | 26 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 23 | EL | 105 | 13 | |
| John Dane III Austin Sperry |
Star | 8 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 4 | EL | 86 | 11 | |
- Women
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | M* | ||||
| Nancy Rios | RS:X | 25 | 24 | 22 | 26 | 24 | 27 | DNF | 26 | 22 | EL | 224 | 26 | |
| Anna Tunnicliffe | Laser Radial | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | CAN | 4 | 37 | 01 ! | |
| Amanda Clark Sara Mergenthaler |
470 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 7 | EL | 89 | 12 | |
| Sally Barkow Debbie Capozzi Carrie Howe |
Yngling | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 10 | CAN | CAN | 10 | 63 | 8 | |
- Open
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | M* | ||||
| Zach Railey | Finn | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | CAN | CAN | 6 | 45 | 02 ! | ||||||
| Chris Rast Tim Wadlow |
49er | 5 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | CAN | CAN | CAN | 22 | 89 | 6 | |
| John Lovell Charlie Ogletree |
Tornado | 14 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 15 | EL | 114 | 15 | ||||||
Read more about this topic: United States At The 2008 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word sailing:
“To sunny waters some
By fatal instinct fly; where on the pool
They sportive wheel, or, sailing down the stream,
Are snatched immediate by the quick-eyed trout
Or darting salmon.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)
“The Colonel went out sailing,
He spoke with Turk and Jew
With Christian and with Infidel
For all tongues he knew.
“O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
And he came sailing home.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)