Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Star

The Star was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics program in Kiel-Schilksee. Seven races were scheduled and completed. 36 sailors, on 18 boats, from 18 nation competed.^[2][3]

Star[1] at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Star (1968 - 1996 Configuration)
Venue	Kiel-Schilksee (Olympiazentrum)
Dates	First race: 29 August 1972 (1972-08-29) Last race: 8 September 1972 (1972-09-08)
Competitors	36 from 18 nations
Teams	18
Medalists
David Forbes John Anderson  Australia Pelle Petterson Stellan Westerdahl  Sweden Wilhelm Kuhweide Karsten Meyer  West Germany
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Race schedule

Due to the interruption of the Games on 6 September 1972, the race was postponed till 7 September. Then the race conditions were unsuitable. Heavy fog and poor wind conditions made it not possible to race until 8 September. Also the medal ceremony was also postponed until 8 September.^[4]

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Event competitions

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Event finals

Date	August						September
	26th Sat	27th Sun	28th Mon	29th Tue	30th Wed	31st Thu	1st Fri	2nd Sat	3rd Sun	4th Mon	5th Tue	6th Wed	7th Thu	8th Fri	9th Sat	10th Sun	11th Mon
Star (planning)				●	●	●	●	Spare day	Spare day	●	●	●	Spare day	Spare day
Star (actual)				●	●	●	●	Spare day	Spare day	●	●		Fog	●

Course area and course configuration

For the Star course area B(ravo) was used. The location (54°30'30'’N, 10°13'00'’E) points to the center of the 2 nm radius circle.^[1][5] The distance between mark 1 and 3 was about 2nm.

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Final results

These are the results for the Star event:^[6]

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Crew	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Race 4		Race 5		Race 6		Race 7		Total	Total – discard
				Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.
	Australia	David Forbes	John Anderson	3	5.7	8	14.0	2	3.0	3	5.7	4	8.0	1	0.0	3	5.7	42.1	28.1
	Sweden	Pelle Petterson	Stellan Westerdahl	2	3.0	7	13.0	1	0.0	4	8.0	5	10.0	18	24	5	10.0	68.0	44.0
	West Germany	Wilhelm Kuhweide	Karsten Meyer	4	8.0	3	5.7	11	17.0	2	3.0	6	11.7	4	8.0	4	8.0	68.0	44.0
4	Brazil	Jörg Bruder	Jan Willem Aten	6	11.7	10	16.0	8	14.0	5	10.0	1	0.0	2	3.0	8	14.0	68.7	52.7
5	Italy	Flavio Scala	Mauro Testa	5	10.0	6	11.7	3	5.7	10	16.0	13	19.0	9	15.0	1	0.0	77.4	58.4
6	Portugal	António Correia	Henrique Anjos	10	16.0	4	8.0	6	11.7	11	17.0	3	5.7	5	10.0	17	23.0	91.4	68.4
7	Great Britain	Stuart Jardine	John Wastall	1	0.0	13	19.0	4	8.0	6	11.7	11	17.0	10	16.0	10	16.0	87.7	68.7
8	Hungary	András Gosztonyi	György Holovits	16	22.0	5	10.0	7	13.0	13	19.0	9	15.0	8	14.0	2	3.0	98.0	76.0
9	Soviet Union	Boris Budnikov	Vladimir Vasilyev	7	13.0	1	0.0	DSQ	26.0	14	20.0	8	16.0	14	20.0	9	15.0	102.0	76.0
10	United States	Alan Holt	Richard Gates	13	19.0	DSQ	26.0	13	19.0	7	13.0	2	3.0	12	18.0	11	17.0	115.0	89.0
11	Austria	Manfred Stelzl	Peter Luschan	8	16.0	15	21.0	5	10.0	15	21.0	7	13.0	7	13.0	18	24.0	116.0	92.0
12	Canada	Ian Bruce	Peter Bjorn	9	15.0	12	18.0	16	22.0	1	0.0	15	21.0	15	21.0	13	19.0	116.0	94.0
13	Bahamas	Durward Knowles	Montague Higgs	12	18.0	2	3.0	10	16.0	12	18.0	DNF	24.0	16	22.0	14	20.0	121.0	97.0
14	Switzerland	Edwin Bernet	Rolf Amrein	DSQ	26.0	16	22.0	9	15.0	14	20.0	10	16.0	3	5.7	15	21.0	125.7	99.7
15	Norway	Bjørn Lofterød	Odd Roar Lofterød	14	20.0	14	20.0	12	18.0	9	15.0	12	18.0	11	17.0	7	13.0	121.0	101.0
16	Virgin Islands	Ken Klein Sr.	Peter Jackson	11	17.0	11	17.0	17	23.0	17	23.0	14	20.0	6	11.7	12	18.0	129.7	106.7
17	East Germany	Herbert Weichert	Hans–Joachim Lange	15	21.0	9	15.0	14	20.0	DNF	24.0	16	22.0	13	19.0	6	11.7	132.7	108.7
18	Argentina	Guillermo Calegari Sr.	Luis Hector Schenone	17	23.0	17	23.0	15	21.0	16	22.0	17	23.0	17	23.0	16	22.0	167.0	134.0

Legend: DSQ – Disqualified; Discard is crossed out and does not count for the overall result. Gender: – male; – female;

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Star during the 1972 Summer Olympics

Further reading

• "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
• "Sailing at the 1972 München Summer Games: Mixed Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2014.