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Windsurfer (Mistral), Women

Date15 – 25 August 2004
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympiako Kentro Istioploias Agiou Kosma, Athina
Participants26 from 26 countries
FormatPoints awarded for placement in each race. Best ten of eleven scores to count for final placement.

This was the third consecutive, and final, Olympics in which the windsurfers used the Mistral board. Defending champion Alessandra Sensini of Italy was the favorite, having recently won the 2004 World Championships, but she had a struggle against French sailor Faustine Merret and China’s Yin Jian. Sensini entered the final race in the lead, but only by two points ahead of Merret and five ahead of Yin. When Sensini finished seventh in the final race, she dropped back to a bronze medal, as Merret won the gold with a second-place finish in the 11th race, which was won by Yin, who moved up to the silver medal.

The top five places were remarkably taken by five sailors who had, or would win, the gold medal in this event at some time. Merret won in 2004, Sensini in 2000, and Yin would come back in 2008 and win the gold. Fourth-place went to Hong Kong China’s Lee Lai-Shan (aka San-San), the 1996 gold medalist, and fifth was New Zealander Barbara Kendall, the 1992 Olympic champion.

Sensini’s bronze medal was her third consecutive in the class, after gold in 2000 and bronze in 1996. At Qingdao in 2008, she would win a silver medal behind Yin Jian, giving her four Olympic sailing medals, the most ever won by a woman at the Olympics.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCNet PointsTP
1Faustine MerretFRA31.044.0Gold
2Yin JianCHN33.044.0Silver
3Alessandra SensiniITA34.041.0Bronze
4Lee Lai ShanHKG42.069.0
5Barbara KendallNZL58.085.0
6Jessica CrispAUS74.087.0
7Amelie LuxGER87.0105.0
8Blanca ManchónESP95.0110.0
9Natasha SturgesGBR103.0119.0
10Olha MaslivetsUKR103.0130.0
11Jannicke StålstrømNOR107.0134.0
12Zofia KlepackaPOL113.0133.0
13Lee KorzitsISR117.0134.0
14Anja KäserSUI121.0148.0
15Antonia-Athina FraiGRE123.0150.0
16Carrie Butler-BeashelUSA126.0145.0
17Masako ImaiJPN135.0153.0
18Sigrid RondelezBEL148.0169.0
19Irina KonstantinovaBUL152.0174.0
20Vita MatīseLAT193.0216.0
21Gabriela ChatzidamianouCYP195.0222.0
22Catalina WaltherARG208.0235.0
23Rosa Irene CamposMEX220.0245.0
24Lívia GyőrbiróHUN227.0252.0
25Carol Borges-MendelblattBRA229.0254.0
26Karla BarreraPUR250.0276.0