One-Person Heavyweight Dinghy (12 foot), Men

The 1928 one-person dinghy event was contested in 12-foot dinghies, a very old class designed by Britain’s George Cockshott, that was named because the length of the boat was required to be 12-feet (3.66 m). Only 12 boats were provided by the organising committee for a competition on the Buiten-IJ lake, so the 20 entrants were split into two qualifying groups for the early part of the event before 10 finalists sailed the remaining four races. With the title decided on the majority ordinals system, the four wins obtained by Sweden’s Sven Thorell gave him the gold medal with one race still to come. Henrik Robert of Norway repeated his feat of four years earlier by winning the silver medal, with Bertel Broman of Finland rounding off an all Scandinavian 1-2-3.

Scoring was by a point-for-place scoring system in round one and using majority ordinals (placements) in the final round, with final standings apparently decided by majority ordinals. This led to Léon Huybrechts (BEL), who did not qualify for the final, ranking ahead of two boats that did compete in the final. However, despite looking at several different options of the scoring, the final standings in the 1928 Official Report do not fully match either scoring system.