Sailing
The United States entered crews in all three of the sailing events, held in the Qingdao International Sailing Centre. Maureen McKinnon-Tucker and Nick Scandone clinched a gold medal in the SKUD-18 class with two races left in the series. First-time Paralympian John Ruf won a bronze medal in a competitive 2.4 mR final race, where the top seven players of the fleet started within single-digit points of each other.
| Athlete | Event | Race | Total points | Net points Total-(#) |
Rank | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||
| John Ruf | 2.4 mR – 1 person keelboat | 2 | 6 | 1 | (9) | 1 | 7 | (10) | 3 | 4 | 4 | CAN | 47 | 28 | |
| Maureen McKinnon-Tucker Nick Scandone |
SKUD18 – 2 person keelboat | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | (3) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | (12) DNS |
CAN | 26 | 11 | |
| Tim Angle Rick Doerr Bill Donohue |
Sonar – 3 person keelboat | 1 | 9 | 10 | 6 | (11) | 10 | 2 | 3 | 4 | (15) RAF |
2 | 73 | 47 | 8 |
- Key
- (#) = Worst two results discarded
- CAN = Race cancelled
- DNS = Did not start
- RAF = Retired after finishing
Read more about this topic: United States At The 2008 Summer Paralympics
Famous quotes containing the word sailing:
“O western orb sailing the heaven,
Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“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)
“Theologians should not be ashamed to admit that they cannot enter a contest with such antagonists [the sceptics], and that they do not want to expose the Gospel truths to such an attack. The ship of Jesus Christ is not made for sailing on this stormy sea, but for taking shelter from this tempest in the haven of faith.”
—Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)