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Multihull (Tornado), Open

Date17 – 24 September 2000
StatusOlympic
LocationRushcutters Bay Marina, Rose Bay, New South Wales
Participants32 from 16 countries
FormatPoints awarded for placement in each race. Best nine of eleven scores to count for final placement.

The Tornado boats had been changed since the 1996 Olympics with the addition of a second trapeze, which allows a sailor to stand on the boat edge to counter the boat’s weight and keep it flatter while turning.

The Austrian crew of helmsman Roman Hagara and Hans-Peter Steinacher won this class in one of the most dominating performances in Olympic sailing history. After nine races they had five wins, two second, a third, and a fourth. The pair did not start the final two races and still won, the only time this has occurred at the Olympics (through 2012), although in the 1948 Star, the crew could have skipped two races and won, and in the 1952 Finn, Paul Elvstrøm could have skipped the final three races. The Austrian crew was known as specialists in light winds, which was the case for most of their races. Hagara and Steinacher would defend their gold medal at the 2004 Olympics. Silver medalist John Forbes of Australia had won a bronze medal in this event in 1992, but with a different helmsman.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCNet PointsTP
1AustriaAUT16.050.0Gold
Roman HagaraHans-Peter Steinacher
2AustraliaAUS25.037.0Silver
Darren BundockJohn Forbes
3GermanyGER38.059.0Bronze
Roland GäblerRené Schwall
4FranceFRA43.065.0
Pierre PennecYann Guichard
5New ZealandNZL46.073.0
Chris DicksonGlen Sowry
6Great BritainGBR53.087.0
Hugh StylesAdam May
7United StatesUSA57.085.0
John LovellCharlie Ogletree
8Puerto RicoPUR58.082.0
Quique FigueroaPedro Colón
9SpainESP58.084.0
Fernando León Pepote
10ArgentinaARG75.0107.0
Santiago LangeMariano Parada
11BrazilBRA78.0112.0
Kiko Pellicano Santinha
12SwedenSWE88.0118.0
Martin StrandbergMagnus Lövdén
13DenmarkDEN96.0129.0
Stig Raagaard HansenHelene Raagaard Hansen
14ItalyITA98.0132.0
Lorenzo Giacomo BodiniMarco Bruno Bodini
15Russian FederationRUS118.0151.0
Konstantin YemelyanovAleksandr Yanin
16PortugalPOR122.0156.0
Hugo RochaNuno Barreto