Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Finn

Ten boats qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.

However, there was a heavy battle with Jonas Høgh Christensen of Denmark that was only decided at the last mark of the medal race.

Dutchman Pieter-Jan Postma almost took the gold while Ainslie and Høgh Christensen were battling it out, but at the last buoy Postma hit the camera on the New Zealand boat and took a penalty lap, dropping him to 4th place.

For the Finn course areas Nothe, West, and South.

Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4] Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); DNE – Non excludable disqualification; DNF – Did not finish; DSQ – Disqualified; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

Ben Ainslie's gold postbox in Lymington
Course areas
Graph showing the daily standings in the Men's Finn during the 2012 Summer Olympics