Sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – 12' Dinghy

The 12' Dinghy was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics program in Amsterdam. A combination of Preliminary series and final series were scheduled. 23 sailors from 20 nations competed on twelve 12' Dinghies that were supplied by the Royal Dutch Yachting Union (Koninklijke Verbonden Nederlandsche Watersport Vereenigingen).

12' Dinghy^[1] at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Line drawing of the 12' Dinghy
Venue	Buiten Y
Dates	First race: 2 August 1928 (1928-08-02) Last race: 8 August 1928 (1928-08-08)
Competitors	23 Male from 20 nations
Teams	20
Medalists
Sven Thorell  Sweden Henrik Robert  Norway Bertil Broman  Finland
← 1920

Race schedule^[1]

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Event competitions

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Event finals

Date	August
	2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun	6th Mon	7th Tue	8th
12' Dinghy	1 – 10 11 – 20	Odd Even	1 – 10 11 – 20	Odd Even	Spare day	●●	●●
Total gold medals							1

Course area and course configuration^[1]

For the 12' Dinghy the courses were just outside the locks on the buiten Y in front of Durgerdam.

At that time the Zuiderzee had an open connection with the North Sea. The sea water was salt or at best brackish.

1928 Olympic Course Areas

 

Course area and course for the 12' Dinghy

Weather conditions ^[2]

Date	Race	Wind speed	Wind direction
2-AUG-1928	1st race 1 – 10 2nd race 11 – 20	7 knots (3.6 m/s) - 10 knots (5.1 m/s)
3-AUG-1928	1st race odd 2nd race even	8 knots (4.1 m/s) - 11 knots (5.7 m/s)
4-AUG-1928	1st race 1 – 10 2nd race 11 – 20	11 knots (5.7 m/s) - 17 knots (8.7 m/s)
5-AUG-1928	1st race odd 2nd race even	13 knots (6.7 m/s) - 21 knots (11 m/s)
7-AUG-1928	2 contests	8 knots (4.1 m/s) - 11 knots (5.7 m/s)
8-AUG-1928	2 contests	10 knots (5.1 m/s) - 13 knots (6.7 m/s)

Results^[3]

The 1928 Olympic scoring system was used.

Boat assignments

The dinghies sails were assigned as follows:

Dinghy number (1–10)	Country	Dinghy number (11–20)	Country	Category
1	Denmark (DEN)	11	Sweden (SWE)	Odd
2	South Africa (RSA)	12	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Even
3	Norway (NOR)	13	Switzerland (SUI)	Odd
4	Monaco (MON)	14	Great Britain (GBR)	Even
5	Germany (GER)	15	Belgium (BEL)	Odd
6	Italy (ITA)	16	United States (USA)	Even
7	Spain (ESP)	17	Austria (AUT)	Odd
8	France (FRA)	18	Finland (FIN)	Even
9	Hungary (HUN)	19	Latvia (LAT)	Odd
10	Poland (POL)	20	Netherlands (NED)	Even

Final results^[4]

Rank	Country	Helmsman	Sail No.	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Race 4		Race 5		Race 6		Race 7		Race 8		Total
				Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.	Pos.	Pts.
	Sweden	Sven Thorell	11	6	6	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	3	3	1	1	2	2	10 4 x 1st
	Norway	Henrik Robert	3	1	1	5	5	3	5	1	1	2	2	1	1	4	4	3	3	12 3 x 1st
	Finland	Bertil Broman	18	1	1	2	2	10	10	1	1	3	3	9	9	2	2	6	6	14 2 x 1st 2 x 2nd
4	Netherlands	Willem de Vries Lentsch	20	4	4	1	1	RET	10	2	2	7	7	6	6	5	5	1	1	17 2 x 1st 1 x 2nd
5	Germany	Egon Beyn	5	3	3	2	2	1	1	3	3	4	4	4	4	6	6	7	7	9 1 x 1st
6	Italy	Tito Nordio	6	5	5	4	4	2	2	3	3	RET	10	2	2	3	3	5	5	14 2 x 2nd
7	Denmark	Jacob Andersen	1	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	8	8	DNS	10	DNS	10	14 1 x 2nd 3 x 4th
8	Great Britain	Gordon Fowler Harry R Gaydon	14	5	5	6	6	2	2	5	5	6	6	5	5	DSQ^[5]	8	4	4	18 1 x 2nd 1 x 4th
9	United States	Manfred Curry	16	3	3	5	5	3	3	4	4	RET	10	7	7	DNS	10	DNS	10	15 2 x 3rd
10	Latvia	Kurts Klāsens	19	7	7	3	3	5	5	8	8	8	8	10	10	7	7	8	8	23 1 x 3rd
11	Hungary	Raul Uhl	11	4	4	RET^[6]	10	5	5	5	5									24
12	Belgium	Léon Huybrechts	15	2	2	RET	10	4	4	DSQ^[5]	9									25
13	Switzerland	Henri Fivaz	13	8	8	7	7	RDGa^[7]	7	6	6									28
14	Spain	Santiago Amat Cansino	7	6	6	6	6	DNS	10	7	7									29
15	South Africa	Rupert Ellis-Brown	2	7	7	3	3	DNS	10	DNS	10									30
16	France	Charles Laverne Louis Pauly	8	RET	10	7	7	RET	7	6	6									30
17	Poland	Adam Wolff Władysław Krzyżanowski	10	8	8	8	8	DNS	10	7	7									33
18	Czechoslovakia	Rudolf Winter	12	10	10	RET	10	6	6	8	8									34
19	Austria	Robert Johanny	17	9	9	RET	10	RET	10	DNS	10									39
20	Monaco	Emile Barral	4	RET	10	WDR	10	DNS	10	DNS	10									40

Legend: DNS – Did not start; DSQ – Disqualified; RDGa – Redress given with average points; RET – Retired; WDR – Withdrew;

Daily standings

 

Graph showing the daily standings in the 12' Dinghy during the 1928 Summer Olympics

Notes

• For this event one yacht from each country, manned by 1 amateur maximum (maximum number of substitutes 1) was allowed.^[1]
• This event was a gender independent event. However it turned out to be a man's only event.

Other information

During the Sailing regattas at the 1928 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes:

12'Dinghy sailors at the 1928 Olympic Games

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    Sven Thorell (SWE)

Further reading

• "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 – 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
• . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2015.

References

1. Rossum, G. van, ed. (1928). (PDF). Amsterdam: The Netherlands Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
2. "Daggegevens van het weer in Nederland". KNMI. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
3. "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
4. "Note". If it is not clear from other sources, it is assumed that the first person mentioned in the crewlist of the official report is the helmsmen.
5. "Note". Bumped No. 3 (Norway)
6. "Note". Capsized
7. "Note". Damaged through no fault of contestant, so that he was allowed the average number of points gained or still to be gained in the remaining preliminary contests.