Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification
# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in Event Sailor Sailor at Games
1 Great Britain Host Country N/A N/A Ben Ainslie
2 Netherlands 2011 Worlds 2 Pieter-Jan Postma Pieter-Jan Postma
3 Denmark 2011 Worlds 4 Jonas Høgh Christensen Jonas Høgh Christensen
4 Spain 2011 Worlds 5 Rafael Trujillo Rafael Trujillo
5 France 2011 Worlds 6 Jonathan Lobert Jonathan Lobert
6 Estonia 2011 Worlds 8 Deniss Karpak Deniss Karpak
7 United States 2011 Worlds 9 Zach Railey Zach Railey
8 Croatia 2011 Worlds 10 Ivan Kljaković Gašpić Ivan Kljaković Gašpić
9 Finland 2011 Worlds 12 Tapio Nirkko Tapio Nirkko
10 Slovenia 2011 Worlds 13 Vasilij Žbogar Vasilij Žbogar
11 Sweden 2011 Worlds 14 Daniel Birgmark Daniel Birgmark
12 Canada 2011 Worlds 16 Chris Cook Greg Douglas
13 Australia 2011 Worlds 19 Brendan Casey Brendan Casey
14 Greece 2011 Worlds 20 Ioannis Mitakis Ioannis Mitakis
15 New Zealand 2011 Worlds 21 Dan Slater Dan Slater
16 Ukraine 2011 Worlds 22 Oleksiy Borysov Oleksiy Borysov
17 Italy 2011 Worlds 24 Filippo Baldassari Filippo Baldassari
18 Brazil 2011 Worlds 32 Jorge Zarif Jorge Zarif
19 Russia 2011 Worlds 33 Eduard Skornyakov Eduard Skornyakov
20 Poland 2012 Worlds 6 Piotr Kula Piotr Kula
Men 's events -- Heavyweight One-person Dinghy - Finn
75% of the qualification places for Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics were awarded based on results at the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships, and the remaining 25% at the World Championships for each boat class.