How does sailing scoring work

Table of Contents. Toggle Navigation Racing Rules of Sailing. See rule Rule: The number of races scheduled and the number required to be completed to constitute a series shall be stated in the notice of race or sailing instructions. However, the notice of race or sailing instructions may make a different arrangement by providing, for example, that no score will be excluded, that two or more scores will be excluded, or that a specified number of scores will be excluded if a specified number of races are completed.

A race is completed if scored; see rule Rule: If a boat has two or more equal worst scores, the score s for the race s sailed earliest in the series shall be excluded. Posted today at pm Class40s in the Transat Jacques Vabre day 6 Skimming and stretching At the end of five days of a race with a totally unpredictable scenario, the 45 Class40s strong fleet is stretching from the Bay of Biscay to the latitude of Lisbon.

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At the Rio Games in the Laser Radial class, Ireland's Annalise Murphy went into the medal race with any position in the top 5 possible for her. She finished 5th in the medal race and jumped from 3rd to 2nd place overall. British sailor Alison Young won the medal race and finished 8th overall. That's it really, it's pretty simple. Just add up the finishing positions in the preliminary races with the worst score discarded. Then add double the final race the "medal race" finishing position. You may hear talk of Irish sailors qualifying for the "medal race", this doesn't mean they can win a medal.

Most boats who qualify for a medal race can't win a medal as their best possible total won't be good enough. Unfortunately, this means that Annalise Murphy is all but out of the running to win a medal in this year's games despite her excellent performances over the last few races.

She is well behind the leaders in her category and would need all of them to finish last or be disqualified from the remaining three races.