The 2012 470 World Championships was the second of the two qualification events for the 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition with 7 slots available for the 470 men and 5 for the 470 women. The Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships was the first qualification event, with 19 slots for the 470 men event available and 15 qualification slots for the 470 women available. As host nation, Great Britain is automatically guaranteed a place in each of the 10 events at the 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition.

There are a total of 27 nation places for the 470 men event and 20 for the women event.

Detailed below are the final nations qualified and confirmed teams. Good luck to all - have the time of your life ...

Flag	Code	470 Men	470 Women
	ARG	Qualified: 2011 Team: Lucas Calabrese / Juan de la Fuente	Qualified: 2011 Team: Fernanda Sesto / Consuelo Monsegur
	AUS	Qualified: 2011 Team: Mat Belcher / Malcolm Page	Qualified: 2011 Team: Elise Rechichi / Belinda Stowell
	AUT	Qualified: 2011 Team: Matthias Schmid / Florian Reichstadter	Qualified: 2012 Team: Lara Vadlau / Eva Maria Shimak
	BRA		Qualified: 2011 Team: Fernanda Oliveira / Ana Barbachan
	CAN	Qualified: 2012 Team: Luke Ramsay / Michael Leigh
	CHI	Qualified: 2012 Team: Benjamin Grez / Diego Gonzalez
	CHN	Qualified: 2011 Team: Daokun Deng / Weidong Wang	Qualified: 2012 Team: Wang Xiaoli / Huang Xufeng
	CRO	Qualified: 2011 Team: Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic	Qualified: 2012 Team: Enia Nincevic / Romana Zupan
	DEN		Qualified: 2012 Team: Henriette Koch / Lene Sommer
	ESP	Qualified: 2011 Team: Onan Barreiros / Aaron Sarmiento	Qualified: 2011 Team: Tara Pacheco / Berta Betanzos
	FIN	Qualified: 2011 Team: Joonas Lindgren / Niklas Lindgren
	FRA	Qualified: 2011 Team: Pierre Leboucher / Vincent Garos	Qualified: 2011 Team: Camille Lecointre / Mathilde Geron
	GBR	Qualified: Host Nation Team: Luke Patience / Stuart Bithell	Qualified: Host Nation Team: Hannah Mills / Saskia Clark
	GER	Qualified: 2011 Team: Ferdinand Gerz / Patrick Follmann	Qualified: 2011 Team: Kathrin Kadelbach / Friedrike Belcher
	GRE	Qualified: 2011 Team: Panagiotis Kampouridis / Efstathios Papadopoulos
	IRL	Qualified: 2012 Team: Ger Owens / Scott Flanigan
	ISR	Qualified: 2011 Team: Gideon Kliger / Eran Sela	Qualified: 2011 Team: Gil Cohen / Vered Bouskila
	ITA	Qualified: 2011 Team: Gabrio Zandona / Pietro Zucchetti	Qualified: 2011 Team: Giulia Conti / Giovanna Micol
	JPN	Qualified: 2011 Team: Ryunosuke Harada / Yugo Yoshida	Qualified: 2011 Team: Ai Kondo / Wakako Tabata
	KOR	Qualified: 2012 Team: Gunwoo Park / Sungmin Cho
	NED	Qualified: 2011 Team: Sven Coster / Kalle Coster	Qualified: 2011 Team: Lisa Westerhof / Lobke Berkhout
	NZL	Qualified: 2011 Team: Paul Snow-Hansen / Jason Saunders	Qualified: 2011 Team: Jo Aleh / Olivia Powrie
	POL		Qualified: 2012 Team: Agnieszka Skrzypulec / Jolanta Ogar
	POR	Qualified: 2011 Team: Alvaro Marinho / Miguel Nunes
	RSA	Qualified: 2012 Team: Asenathi Jim / Roger Hudson
	RUS	Qualified: 2012 Team: Mikhail Sheremetyev / Maxim Sheremetyev
	SLO		Qualified: 2011 Team: Tina Mrak / Teja Cerne
	SUI	Qualified: 2011 Team: Yannick Brauchli / Romuald Hausser
	SWE	Qualified: 2011 Team: Anton Dahlberg / Sebastien Ostling	Qualified: 2011 Team: Lisa Ericson / Astrid Gabrielsson
		Qualified: 2012 Team: Deniz Cinar / Ates Cinar
	USA	Qualified: 2011 Team: Stuart McNay / Graham Biehl	Qualified: 2011 Team: Amanda Clark / Sarah Lihan
TOTAL		27 Nations	20 Nations

More Information:
2012 Olympic News on 470.org
2012 Olympic Qualification System
Olympic Results Archive
ISAF 2012 Olympic Microsite
Official London 2012 Olympic site
Olympic Medallists - By Nation
Olympic Medallists - By Year

Image: Benjamin Grez / Diego Gonzalez of Chile © Thom Touw

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Published Date: 05/06/2012