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Multihull (Tornado), Open

Date	21 – 29 July 1980
Status	Olympic
Location	Tallinna Olümpiapurjespordikeskus, Tallinn
Participants	22 from 11 countries
Format	Points awarded for placement in each race. Best six of seven scores to count for final placement.

Only 11 boats started in the Tornado Class, with the field filled out by some Eastern European nations as the US-led boycott definitely affected the quality of the competition. Gold went to Brazilians Alexander Welter and Lars Sigurd Bjorkstrom, who won three races, and two thirds and a fifth for the scoring races. They won comfortably over the Danish crew of Per Kjærgaard Nielsen and Peter Due. That crew had also competed in this class at the 1976 Olympics, placing ninth.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Net Points	TP
1	Brazil	BRA	21.4	33.1	Gold
	Alex Welter • Lars Björkström
2	Denmark	DEN	30.4	43.4	Silver
	Per Kjærgaard Nielsen • Peter Due
3	Sweden	SWE	33.7	46.7	Bronze
	Göran Marström • Jörgen Ragnarsson
4	Soviet Union	URS	35.1	46.8
	Aleksandr Zõbin • Viktor Potapov
5	Netherlands	NED	39.0	50.7
	Govert Brasser • Willem van Walt Meijer
6	Finland	FIN	47.7	59.4
	Juha Siira • Pekka Narko
7	Austria	AUT	67.7	85.7
	Hermann Kupfner • Hubert Porkert
8	East Germany	GDR	82.0	100.0
	Jörg Schramme • Uwe Steingroß
9	Poland	POL	89.0	105.0
	Bogdan Kramer • Jarogniew Krüger
10	Bulgaria	BUL	94.0	112.0
	Krasimir Krastev • Tsvetan Penchev
11	Romania	ROU	98.0	115.0
	Andrei Chiliman • Cătălin Luchian