UP TO 46,000 tickets have been sold for the Olympic sailing events in Dorset.

Spectators for 2012 have snapped up all the £20 and £35 events tickets for 10 days of the two-week period in Weymouth and Portland, as well as three of the medal race days, which cost £55 per ticket.

Nothe Gardens in Weymouth is the proposed official spectator site, subject to borough council planning approval, and up to 4,600 people a day are expected to be accommodated – meaning that up to 46,000 have bought 2012 tickets for the borough events so far.

It comes as London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) has confirmed that 2.3million tickets will be available in the second round of 2012 tickets sales, across a range of price categories and sports.

LOCOG has revealed that there is ‘good availability’ of tickets for the 470 women’s medal race and women’s Elliott 6m matchracing event on August 10 and the Elliott 6m one-on-one medal race on August 11.

‘Low availability’ remains for £55 tickets for the 49er men’s high-performance skiff dinghy class medal race and Elliott 6m on August 8 and the 470 men’s dinghy event medal race and Elliott 6m on August 9.

Nationally, the largest number of remaining tickets involve the largest venues with football, volleyball and hockey having the most availability – 1.7 million of the remaining 2.3 million tickets are for football.

More than 2.5 million people have tickets from the first round of sales – and everyone who was unsuccessful in the first round will now be able to apply for tickets in 310 sessions, including 44 medal events, for archery, athletics, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, canoe sprint, mountain biking, dressage, football, fencing, handball, hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, synchronised swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, volleyball, wrestling, and weightlifting.

LOCOG has sent a detailed list of availabilities directly to applicants who did not receive tickets in the first round so they can be prepared when the second round sale begins at 6am on June 24.

The first 10 days of sales until 6pm on July 3 will only be open exclusively to the people who applied in the initial application phase but were not allocated any tickets.

LOCOG chairman Sebastian Coe said: “We recognise that the massive demand for tickets has meant that many sports fans were disappointed not to receive tickets.

“That’s why we are prioritising them specifically in the second round, and giving them the first choice of tickets available.

“There are over two million Olympic tickets on offer at a wide range of prices and our objective is to get these into the hands of as many of the original applicants as possible.”