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Olympic Games Central and South America 20 W TEAMS / 20 COUNTRIES - 26 M TEAMS / 26 COUNTRIES

Rio 2016 Olympic Games Sailing Competition

Brazil

Event website

The Sailing Competition of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games will take place on Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay. Follow updates at http://2016olympics.470.org

In October 2009, the IOC elected Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as host city for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad during its 121st Session in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Brazil has a proud record in Olympic sailing, in fact sailing is one of the nation's most successful Olympic sports. Torben Grael is the only sailor to have won five Olympic medals, whilst Robert Scheidt is only one behind with two golds and two silvers. At Beijing 2008 Fernanda Oliveira and Isabel Swan became the first female Brazilian sailors to win an Olympic medal. Brazil also showed its dedication to the future of the sport as it hosted the 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship with great success.

Results

470 W

Pos	Nation	Crew	Points
1	GBR	Hannah Mills / Saskia Clark	44
2	NZL	Jo Aleh / Polly Powrie	54
3	FRA	Camille Lecointre / Helene Defrance	62
4	NED	Afrodite Zegers / Anneloes van Veen	63
5	JPN	Ai Kondo Yoshida / Miho Yoshioka	66

470 M

Pos	Nation	Crew	Points
1	CRO	Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic	43
2	AUS	Mathew Belcher / Will Ryan	58
3	GRE	Panagiotis Mantis / Pavlos Kagialis	58
4	USA	Stuart McNay / Dave Hughes	71
5	GBR	Luke Patience / Chris Grube	75