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Two Person Heavyweight Dinghy (Flying Dutchman), Open

Date27 July – 3 August 1992
StatusOlympic
LocationPuerto Olímpico, Barcelona
Participants46 from 23 countries
FormatPoints awarded for placement in each race. Best six of seven scores to count for final placement.

The Flying Dutchman class, as a two-person heavyweight dinghy class, had been on the Olympic Program since the 1960 Roma Olympics, but it would be discontinued after 1992. It was not replaced as the trend has been towards smaller and lighter boats in Olympic yachting / sailing.

Americans Paul Foerster and Stephen Bourdow took a big lead by winning the second, third, and fourth races, but they could not fully shake the Spanish crew of Luis Doreste and Domingo Manrique. Doreste and Manrique won only one race, the first, but were consistent and held on for the win despite finishing 13th in the final race.

This was Doreste’s second Olympic gold medal, having won the 470 class at the 1984 Olympics. His brother, José Luis, also won an Olympic sailing gold medal, in the 1988 Finn class. Paul Foerster later won two more Olympic medals in the 470 class, silver in 2000 and gold in 2004. The bronze medal skipper in Barcelona, Jørgen Bojsen-Møller of Denmark, came in as the defending gold medalist in Flying Dutchman, and was competing in the class at his fourth Olympics.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCNet PointsTP
1SpainESP29.748.7Gold
Domingo ManriqueLuis Doreste
2United StatesUSA32.755.7Silver
Paul FoersterStephen Bourdow
3DenmarkDEN37.754.7Bronze
Jens Bojsen-MøllerJørgen Bojsen-Møller
4New ZealandNZL68.093.0
Greg KnowlesMurray Jones
5GermanyGER70.495.4
Albert BatzillPeter Lang
6SwedenSWE78.4100.4
Johan LindellMats Nyberg
7NorwayNOR80.7100.7
Knut FrostadOle Petter Pollen
8SwitzerlandSUI81.7104.7
Jan EckertPiet Eckert
9CanadaCAN82.7103.7
Frank McLaughlinJohn Millen
10FranceFRA97.0127.0
Thierry BergerVincent Berger
11Unified TeamEUN97.7127.7
Georgy ShaydukoViktar Budantsev
12SloveniaSLO100.7127.7
Goran ŠošićMitja Kosmina
13BrazilBRA102.7131.7
Alan AdlerMarcus Temke
14IrelandIRL106.7132.7
David WilkinsPeter Kennedy
15Great BritainGBR107.0133.0
Adrian SteadPeter Allam
16AustriaAUT107.0134.0
Markus SchneebergerStephan Schurich
17Hong KongHKG109.0133.0
Simon EllisSven Merkel
18NetherlandsNED113.0142.0
Gerhard PotmaWillem Potma
19South AfricaRSA128.0156.0
Dave HudsonDavid Kitchen
20IsraelISR130.0159.0
Eldad AmirYoel Sela
21ItalyITA138.0168.0
Flavio GrassiLuca Santella
22CroatiaCRO145.0173.0
Bojan GregoSebastijan Miknić
23HungaryHUN146.0173.0
Tamás PomuczTamás Somogyi