The Women's Elliott 6m was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The competition followed a match race format. It consisted of a round-robin a quarter finals, semi-finals, petit-final and final series. The top eight crews from the round-robin were seeded into the quarter finals.

Summary A total of 98 matches were sailed: Sixty-seven matches were sailed in the round robin (including the rematch between FIN and POR. Finland originally won the round robin race against Portugal, but this was annulled after a protest by Portugal due to a Portuguese boat getting stuck at the turning mark. Finland won the rescheduled race as well.) The quarter finals (best 3 out of 5) 16 matches were sailed. Semi-finals, best 2 out of 3 (best 3 out of 5) was planned. Russia appealed the decision to stop the semi-finals after 3 matches and the results of 4th match of the petite final to CAS. The appeal to the semi-finals decision was later rejected.) Six matches were sailed. Petit-final and final series (best 3 out of 5) 4 matches. In the final a total of 5 matches were sailed.

Schedule  ● Practice race  ● Round Robin on Nothe  ● Knock-out on Nothe  ● Semi-finals on Nothe  ● Finals on Nothe Date JulyAugust26Thu27Fri28Sat29Sun30Mon31Tue1Wed2Thu3Fri4Sat5Sun6thMon7Tue8Wed9Thu10Fri11Sat12Sun Women's Elliott 6m ● 11 13 12 12 9 8 Spareday 1 8 12 Spareday 10 9

Course areas and course configurations

For the Elliott 6m the majority of racing took place on course area Nothe, however some racing also occurred in the Portland area. The location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area. The target time for the course was 18 minutes. All races were conducted on windward/leeward course configurations of 2 laps.

Results Source: Round Robin

Rank Country Races Won Lost Points 1 111111111111111011 21PEN 111011111111928 300 10111111111838 4000 1111110111838 50010 100111111656 601000 01111111656 7000011 0011111565 8000DNF010DSQ1 101011474 900000010 1111147410000000DNF010 11113831100000DNF00DNF0DNF00 11111011200000001000 111101

Knock-out and Finals

5th to 8th place Sail-offs for places 5–8, scheduled for August 9, were cancelled due to low winds. The Round-robin results were used for final placement.

Final ranking Rank Country Helmsman Crew Round Robin Knock out Semi Finals Finals Támara EchegoyenÁngela PumariegaSofía Toro3111 Olivia PriceNina CurtisLucinda Whitty1112 Silja LehtinenSilja KanervaMikaela Wulff5113 4 Ekaterina SkudinaElena OblovaElena Syuzeva2114 5 Anna TunnicliffeDeborah CapozziMolly O'Bryan – Vandemoer45-- 6 Claire LeroyÉlodie BertrandMarie Riou66-- 7 Lucy MacGregorAnnie LushKate MacGregor77-- 8 Renee GroeneveldAnnemieke BesMarcelien Bos – de Koning88-- 9 Stephanie HazardJenna HansenSusannah Pyatt9--- 10 Lotte Meldegaard PedersenSusanne BoidinTina Gramkov10--- 11 Rita GonçalvesMariana LobatoDiana Neves11--- 12 Anna KjellbergMalin KällströmLotta Harrysson12 ---

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