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Rio Olympic Sailing – New Zealand wins 49er Gold, Australia silver

by Andy Rice - World Sailing on 18 Aug 2016
Gold for Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) in the Men's 49er class at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Energy/World Sailing
For Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL), the Medal Race was a victory lap, the Kiwis having won the 49er Men's gold medal with two races to spare after dominating the 20-boat fleet at Rio 2016 over the past week.

The unstoppable Kiwis dominated today's Medal Race just as they have dominated the 49er fleet for the past four years, the four-time World Champions undefeated since taking the Olympic silver medal in London 2012.

Silver for Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jension (AUS) in the Men's 49er class at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition © Sailing Energy/World Sailing
Silver for Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jension (AUS) in the Men's 49er class at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition © Sailing Energy/World Sailing



Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel (GER) began the day in silver medal position, but started the race very badly after a near capsize just 20 seconds before the start. This put the Germans on the back foot and opened the door for Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen (AUS) to seize the advantage. The 2012 Olympic Champions did enough to stay ahead of their rivals and won silver for Australia, Germany taking bronze.

Bronze for Erik Heil & Thomas Ploessel (GER) in the Men's 49er class at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition © Sailing Energy/World Sailing
Bronze for Erik Heil & Thomas Ploessel (GER) in the Men's 49er class at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition © Sailing Energy/World Sailing



 49ER - MEN - Overall Results

Pos

NOC

Crew

Race

Points
   

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

MR

Total

Net

1

NZL

Peter Burling

Blair Tuke

1

1

5

2

(7)

6

2

3

1

3

5

4

2

42

35

2

AUS

Nathan Outteridge

Iain Jensen

(13)

8

2

5

10

12

4

5

8

2

7

7

8

91

78

3

GER

Erik Heil

Thomas Ploessel

6

3

1

3

4

13

14

4

5

10

4

(18)

16

101

83

4

DEN

Jonas Warrer

Christian Peter Lübeck

8

9

(21)
DSQ

15

1

5

6

13

14

18

1

2

6

119

98

5

FRA

Julien d'Ortoli

Noe Delpech

(20)

12

16

12

2

9

1

1

3

17

9

14

4

120

100

6

GBR

Dylan Fletcher-Scott

Alain Sign

15

10

7

(20)

14

4

5

6

9

1

6

3

20

120

100

7

ARG

Yago Lange

Klaus Lange

11

7

6

16

12

16

(21)
DSQ

2

2

11

3

11

14

132

111

8

POL

Lukasz Przybytek

Pawel Kolodzinski

2

13

9

9

5

9.3
RDG

(18)

11

7

16

18

9

10

136.3

118.3

9

ESP

Diego Botín le Chever

Iago López Marra

16

5

3

13

6

10

13

15

(18)

12

2

13

12

138

120

10

IRL

Ryan Seaton

Matthew Mcgovern

14

2

4

1

13

17

12

7

13

19

(20)

1

18

141

121

11

BRA

Marco Grael

Gabriel Borges

10

11

8

7

(19)

7

10

17

10

8

15

6

  

128

109

12

AUT

Nico Delle - Karth

Nikolaus Resch

17

6

10

18

3

14

3

14

(21)
DNF

4

11

16

  

137

116

13

SUI

Sebastien Schneiter

Lucien Cujean

5

16

12

4

(17)

15

15

10

16

5

17

5

  

137

120

14

ITA

Ruggero Tita

Pietro Zucchetti

7

(20)

19

11

15

8

9

9

6

7

10

19

  

140

120

15

CRO

Pavle Kostov

Petar Cupac

9

17

11

10

11

1

17

(18)

15

13

8

10

  

140

122

16

POR

Jorge Lima

José Costa

4

4

18

6

16

(21)
DSQ

11

19

4

9

19

12

  

143

122

17

BEL

Yannick Lefèbvre

Tom Pelsmaekers

19

14

13

17

9

3

8

8

12

(20)

14

8

  

145

125

18

JPN

Yukio Makino

Kenji Takahashi

3

15

17

8

8

2

19

12

17

15

16

(20)

  

152

132

19

USA

Thomas Barrows, III

Joseph Morris

18

19

14

14

(21)
DSQ

11

16

16

11

6

13

17

  

176

155

20

CHI

Benjamin Grez Ahrens

Cristóbal Grez Ahrens

12

18

15

19

18

(21)
DSQ

7

20

21
DNF

14

12

15

  

192

171
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