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One Person Dinghy (Laser), Men

Date	8 – 16 August 2016
Status	Olympic
Location	Marina da Glória, Glória, Rio de Janeiro
Participants	46 from 46 countries
Format	Points awarded for placement in each race. Best 9 of 10 scores to count for final placement, and advancement to the medal race.. Medal race points count double.

Tom Burton claimed the gold medal in the Laser for Australia for the second Games in a row following Tom Slingsby’s victory in 2012. After the ten preliminary races the field was led by Croatia’s Tonći Stipanović, whose ten-point margin assured him of at least a silver medal. In the medal race, Stipanović tried from the start to outrace Burton, his last remaining pursuer for gold. But he eventually finished at the back of the fleet in ninth place, which added another 18 points to his total. Burton sailed to a third place in the medal race and his six points gave him the top position and the gold medal, two points ahead of the Croatian. Nevertheless, Stipanović, who finished fourth at the London Olympics, won the first ever sailing medal for his country.

In the preliminaries, none of the boats in this close field managed to win two races. However, 43-year-old veteran Robert Scheidt of Brazil was first in the second preliminary race and also won the medal race. But some 20+ rankings dashed all his hopes to do better than fourth. In his six Olympic appearances since 1996, it was the first time Scheidt went home without a medal after two gold, two silver and one bronze. Sam Meech from New-Zealand, who was already third after the preliminaries, held on to the bronze medal position by placing fourth in the medal race.

Pos	Boat	NOC	Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9	Race 10	Medal Race
1	Tom Burton	AUS	73	17	8	2	10	9	14	7	2	11	4	6	Gold
2	Tonči Stipanović	CRO	75	1	5	7	12	6	7	28	9	7	3	18	Silver
3	Sam Meech	NZL	85	19	3	5	6	14	17	13	6	12	1	8	Bronze
4	Robert Scheidt	BRA	89	23	1	27	4	11	2	4	5	26	11	2
5	Jean-Baptiste Bernaz	FRA	90	11	10	4	17	5	47	3	15	19	2	4
6	Nick Thompson	GBR	103	8	17	9	15	2	1	24	7	6	22	16
7	Pavlos Kontides	CYP	104	7	31	1	14	25	6	8	14	9	8	12
8	Juan Ignacio Maegli	GUA	117	18	14	3	7	16	25	18	17	3	7	14
9	Rutger van Schaardenburg	NED	118	3	21	24	8	1	4	22	4	21	24	10
10	Julio Alsogaray	ARG	129	4	2	14	1	24	37	12	16	14	20	22
11	Charlie Buckingham	USA	108	20	7	10	22	8	26	15	10	10	6	–
12	Francesco Marrai	ITA	109	39	11	18	5	22	11	5	1	13	23	–
13	Ha Ji-Min	KOR	109	26	6	38	3	12	9	10	21	8	14	–
14	Philipp Buhl	GER	126	16	16	8	13	17	13	1	25	34	17	–
15	Sergey Komissarov	RUS	129	2	9	19	23	7	10	16	31	28	15	–
16	Jesper Stålheim	SWE	137	10	23	26	28	10	15	2	3	20	31	–
17	Wannes Van Laer	BEL	140	27	30	12	11	23	12	23	13	1	18	–
18	Kacper Ziemiński	POL	140	34	28	6	[47]	3	5	20	12	22	10	–
19	Cy Thompson	ISV	152	13	4	11	35	32	33	6	20	17	16	–
20	Colin Cheng	SGP	160	5	20	13	18	21	47	27	22	25	9	–
21	Karl-Martin Rammo	EST	169	24	19	17	44	30	28	36	8	2	5	–
22	Gustavo Lima	POR	170	15	15	20	25	15	8	11	28	38	33	–
23	Lee Parkhill	CAN	172	43	37	33	9	19	20	14	23	4	13	–
24	Enrique Arathoon	ESA	177	33	32	28	30	4	3	9	32	18	21	–
25	Michael Hansen	DEN	180	6	24	23	20	31	31	19	26	5	26	–
26	Kaarle Tapper	FIN	187	32	12	31	29	27	18	17	11	23	19	–
27	Kristian Ruth	NOR	209	47	13	32	2	29	16	25	47	15	30	–
28	Viktor Teplý	CZE	222	29	18	30	19	13	23	29	29	32	34	–
29	Milivoj Dukić	MNE	232	12	26	35	24	33	19	32	24	33	29	–
30	Matías del Solar	CHI	238	22	35	22	32	35	24	34	33	24	12	–
31	Stefano Peschiera	PER	242	37	40	16	16	28	22	21	27	35	47	–
32	Finn Lynch	IRL	243	14	27	15	39	18	27	33	30	40	47	–
33	Benjamin Vadnai	HUN	248	9	44	21	21	[47]	30	30	39	29	25	–
34	Youssef Akrout	TUN	257	21	29	34	26	38	32	37	35	16	27	–
35	Khairulnizam Bin Mohd Afendy	MAS	281	38	33	40	33	20	21	47	37	31	28	–
36	Joaquín Blanco	ESP	286	28	47	25	40	26	29	26	[47]	30	35	–
37	Keerati Bualong	THA	287	25	38	37	31	37	39	35	18	27	47	–
38	José Gutiérrez	VEN	314	35	36	36	42	39	35	40	19	37	37	–
39	Andrew Lewis	TTO	324	42	34	39	36	40	34	31	47	36	32	–
40	Stefano Marcia	RSA	331	30	25	42	38	43	38	44	36	39	40	–
41	Cameron Pimentel	BER	339	31	45	41	27	44	42	39	34	42	39	–
42	Yanic Gentry	MEX	340	41	42	29	43	34	36	38	47	41	36	–
43	Ahmed Ragab	EGY	349	36	22	44	41	41	41	42	40	45	42	–
44	Peter Elisa Henry	COK	362	40	39	43	34	36	40	45	47	44	41	–
45	Rodney Govinden	SEY	365	45	41	47	37	42	37	41	41	43	38	–
46	Manuel Lelo	ANG	390	44	43	45	45	47	43	43	38	46	43	–