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One Person Dinghy (12 foot), Open

Date2 – 8 August 1928
StatusOlympic
LocationBuiten-IJ, Amsterdam
Participants23 from 20 countries
FormatEight races, two on the last two days. The 20 competitors were separated into two groups of 10 for the 1st and 3rd races, and two differing groups of 10 for the 2nd and 4th races. Races 1-4 were preliminary, with point-for-place scoring, the top ten finishers advancing to the final four races. Final placements were determined by a majority ordinal system, based on the results of all eight races.

The 1928 one-person dinghy event was contested in 12-foot dinghies, a very old class designed by Britain’s George Cockshott, that was named because the length of the boat was required to be 12-feet (3.66 m). Only 12 boats were provided by the organising committee so competition on the Buiten-Y lake so the 20 entrants were split into two qualifying groups for the early part of the event before ten finalists sailed the remaining four races. With the title decided on the majority ordinals system, the four wins obtained by Sweden’s Sven Thorell gave him the gold medal with one race still to come. Henrik Robert of Norway repeated his feat of four years earlier by winning the silver medal with Bertel Broman of Finland rounding off an all Scandinavian 1-2-3.

Scoring was by a point-for-place scoring system in round one and using majority ordinals (placements) in the final round, with final standings apparently decided by majority ordinals. This led to Léon Huybrechts (BEL), who did not qualify for the final, ranking ahead of two boats that did compete in the final. However, despite looking at several different options of the scoring, the final standings in the 1928 Official Report do not fully match either scoring system.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Sven ThorellSWEGold
2Henrik RobertNORSilver
3Bertel BromanFINBronze
4Willem de Vries LentschNED
5Edgar BeynGER
6Tito NordioITA
7Jacob AndersenDEN
8Gordon Fowler / Harry GaydonGBR
9Léon HuybrechtsBEL1
10Manfred CurryUSA
11Kurts KlāsensLAT
12Rupert Ellis-BrownRSA
13Raul UhlHUN
=14Santiago AmatESP
=14Charles Laverne / Louis PaulyFRA
16Henri FivazSUI
17Rudolf WinterTCH
18Adam Wolff / Władysław KrzyżanowskiPOL
19Robert JohannyAUT
ACÉmile BarralMON

Round One (2 – 5 August 1928)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPointsMO
1Edgar BeynGER91 1st, 1 2nd, 2 3rdsQ
=2Sven ThorellSWE102 1sts, 1 2nd, 1 6thQ
=2Henrik RobertNOR102 1sts, 1 3rdQ
4Bertel BromanFIN132 1sts, 1 2nd, 1 10thQ
=5Jacob AndersenDEN141 2nd, 3 4thsQ
=5Tito NordioITA141 2nd, 1 3rdQ
7Manfred CurryUSA152 3rdsQ
8Willem de Vries LentschNED161 1st, 1 2nd, 1 4thQ
9Gordon Fowler / Harry GaydonGBR181 2nd, 2 5thsQ
10Kurts KlāsensLAT231 3rd, 1 5thQ
11Raul UhlHUN241 4th
12Léon HuybrechtsBEL251 2nd, 1 4th
=13Santiago AmatESP292 6ths
=13Charles Laverne / Louis PaulyFRA291 6th, 1 7th, 2 10ths
=15Rupert Ellis-BrownRSA301 3rd, 1 7th
=15Henri FivazSUI301 6th, 1 7th, 1 8th
=17Rudolf WinterTCH331 6th, 1 8th
=17Adam Wolff / Władysław KrzyżanowskiPOL331 7th, 2 8ths
19Robert JohannyAUT391 9th
DNFÉmile BarralMON40DNF / WD

Group One (2 – 5 August 1928)

Race One

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Henrik RobertNOR1-48:49
2Jacob AndersenDEN1-49:06
3Edgar BeynGER1-51:27
4Raul UhlHUN1-52:38
5Tito NordioITA1-52:47
6Santiago AmatESP1-52:51
7Rupert Ellis-BrownRSA1-54:55
8Adam WolffPOL1-57:41
DNFCharles LaverneFRA
DNFÉmile BarralMON

Race Two

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Sven ThorellSWE1-16:56
2Edgar BeynGER1-17:33
3Kurts KlāsensLAT1-19:38
4Jacob AndersenDEN1-19:51
5Henrik RobertNOR1-24:57
6Santiago AmatESP1-26:01
7Henri FivazSUI1-32:36
DNFRobert JohannyAUT
DNFRaul UhlHUN2
DNFLéon HuybrechtsBEL3

Race Three

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Edgar BeynGER1-04:56
2Tito NordioITA1-05:00
3Henrik RobertNOR1-10:50
4Jacob AndersenDEN1-16:55
5Raul UhlHUN1-39:56
DNFCharles LaverneFRA
DNSSantiago AmatESP
DNSAdam WolffPOL
DNSRupert Ellis-BrownRSA
DNSÉmile BarralMON

Race Four

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Henrik RobertNOR1-19:29
2Sven ThorellSWE1-19:36
3Edgar BeynGER1-20:00
4Jacob AndersenDEN1-23:17
5Raul UhlHUN1-25:25
6Henri FivazSUI1-26:14
7Santiago AmatESP1-26:41
8Kurts KlāsensLAT1-27:56
DQLéon HuybrechtsBEL4
DNSRobert JohannyAUT

Group Two (2 – 5 August 1928)

Race One

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Bertel BromanFIN2-01:47
2Léon HuybrechtsBEL2-03:33
3Manfred CurryUSA2-04:19
4Willem de Vries LentschNED2-04:34
5Harry GaydonGBR2-06:01
6Sven ThorellSWE2-08:35
7Kurts KlāsensLAT2-09:20
8Henri FivazSUI2-10:28
9Robert JohannyAUT2-10:33
10Rudolf WinterTCH2-13:37

Race Two

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Willem de Vries LentschNED1-14:58
2Bertel BromanFIN1-17:13
3Rupert Ellis-BrownRSA1-19:12
4Tito NordioITA1-19:27
5Manfred CurryUSA1-20:15
6Harry GaydonGBR1-25:22
7Charles LaverneFRA1-25:30
8Adam WolffPOL1-29:13
DNFRudolf WinterTCH5
DNSÉmile BarralMON

Race Three

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Sven ThorellSWE39:47
2Gordon FowlerGBR40:27
3Manfred CurryUSA46:57
4Léon HuybrechtsBEL48:56
5Kurts KlāsensLAT49:15
6Rudolf WinterTCH52:51
DNFHenri FivazSUI6
DNFBertel BromanFIN
DNFWillem de Vries LentschNED
DNFRobert JohannyAUT

Race Four

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Bertel BromanFIN1-23:54
2Willem de Vries LentschNED1-24:00
3Tito NordioITA1-24:50
4Manfred CurryUSA1-25:46
5Gordon FowlerGBR1-26:13
6Louis PaulyFRA1-28:30
7Władysław KrzyżanowskiPOL1-29:57
8Rudolf WinterTCH1-37:51
DNSRupert Ellis-BrownRSA
DNSÉmile BarralMON

Final Round (7 – 8 August 1928)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCMO
1Sven ThorellSWE4 1sts
2Henrik RobertNOR3 1sts
3Bertel BromanFIN2 1sts, 2 2nds
4Willem de Vries LentschNED2 1sts, 1 2nd
5Edgar BeynGER1 1st
6Tito NordioITA2 2nds
7Jacob AndersenDEN1 2nd, 3 4ths
8Gordon Fowler / Harry GaydonGBR1 2nd, 1 4th, 3 5ths
9Manfred CurryUSA2 3rds
10Kurts KlāsensLAT1 3rd, 1 5th

Race One

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Sven ThorellSWE1-18:55
2Henrik RobertNOR1-19:13
3Bertel BromanFIN1-19:28
4Edgar BeynGER1-19:29
5Jacob AndersenDEN1-19:32
6Gordon FowlerGBR1-19:49
7Willem de Vries LentschNED1-20:03
8Kurts KlāsensLAT1-21:11
DNFTito NordioITA
DNFManfred CurryUSA

Race Two

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Henrik RobertNOR1-20:56
2Tito NordioITA1-12:58
3Sven ThorellSWE1-21:59
4Edgar BeynGER1-22:27
5Gordon FowlerGBR1-23:45
6Willem de Vries LentschNED1-24:07
7Manfred CurryUSA1-24:31
8Jacob AndersenDEN1-24:37
9Bertel BromanFIN1-24:53
10Kurts KlāsensLAT1-25:24

Race Three

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Sven ThorellSWE1-36:09
2Bertel BromanFIN1-36:46
3Tito NordioITA1-37:32
4Henrik RobertNOR1-39:27
5Willem de Vries LentschNED1-39:41
6Edgar BeynGER1-39:54
7Kurts KlāsensLAT1-42:39
DQGordon FowlerGBR7
DNSJacob AndersenDEN
DNSManfred CurryUSA

Race Four

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Willem de Vries LentschNED1-28:50
2Sven ThorellSWE1-32:16
3Henrik RobertNOR1-32:17
4Gordon FowlerGBR1-32:44
5Tito NordioITA1-33:35
6Bertel BromanFIN1-35:42
7Edgar BeynGER1-35:49
8Kurts KlāsensLAT1-38:03
DNSJacob AndersenDEN
DNSManfred CurryUSA