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Kingston, Canada

The terrorist murder of nine of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics meant that the Montreal Games were held under the tightest security. Sailing took place in another Canadian province, Ontario instead of Quebec, at Kingston. In a bid to modernise Olympic sailing, two venerable keelboats were dropped, the Star and Dragon. In their places a modern, glassfibre, trapezing dinghy in the shape of the 470 designed by Frenchman Andre Cornu, and a multihull with the Tornado class.

The first 470 winner was West German Frank Hübner.

Position	Crew	Nation
1	Frank HÜBNER Harro BODE	FRG FRG
2	Antonio GOROSTEGUI CEBALLOS Pedro Luis MILLET SOLER	ESP ESP
3	Ian BROWN Ian RUFF	AUS AUS
4	Viktor POTAPOV Aleksandr POTAPOV	URS URS
5	Marcus PATERSON Brett BENNETT	NZL NZL
6	Philip J B CREBBIN Derek F C CLARK	GBR GBR
7	Jean-Claude VUITHIER Laurent QUELLET	SUI SUI
8	Marc LAURENT Roger SURMIN	FRA FRA
9	Robert Michael WHITEHURST David Thomas WHITEHURST	USA USA
10	Mitsushi KURODA	JPN
11	Marco Antonio PARADEDA Luiz Antonio SOHNI AYDOS	BRA BRA
12	Lars LONBORG Dan Ibsen SORENSEN	DEN DEN
13	Josephus (Joop) WERKHOVEN Robert WERKHOVEN	NED NED
14	Roberto VENCATO Roberto SPONZA	ITA ITA
15	Morten JENSEN Hans Petter JENSEN	NOR NOR
16	Colin PARK Jay CROSS	CAN CAN
17	Eugene Scott SIMMONS Lawrence LINDO	BER BER
18	Henry Mikko Ilari BRUMMER Ali Rudi Rainer BIAUDET	FIN FIN
19	Peter WINTERS Carl WINTERS	BEL BEL
20	Olle JOHANSSON Lars JOHANSSON	SWE SWE
21	Joaquim Leca RAMADA Francisco Antunes MOURAO	POR POR
22	Andras DE LISOCKY Beatriz DE LISOCKY	COL COL
23	Robert DIX Peter DIX	IRL IRL
24	Santi THAMSUCHARIT Damrong (tha) SIRISAKORN	THA THA
25	Miguel Antonio CASELLAS Jose Roberto BENITEZ	PUR PUR
26	Juan MAEGLI NOVELLA Jorge SPRINGMUHL	GUA GUA
27	Demetrios GERONTARIS Antonios BONAS	GRE GRE
28	Geoffrey KIRKCONNELL Peter MILBURN	CAY CAY

 Source: ISAF

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Published Date: 26/01/2010