News Alert - Skandia Sail for Gold 2010 Gold Medals Decided

14/8/2010 16:45

Medal day in Weymouth find out who the winners are......

Australia went home laden with gold after an astonishing week of racing in Weymouth Bay – the 2012 Olympic venue. The Aussies picked up gold in four classes; Nicky Souter, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price in the Women’s Match Racing, the Skud-18 was won by Daniel Fitzgibbon and Rachael Cox on Friday, Tom Slingsby took gold in the Laser Men, and Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen made up the top quartet with a win in the 49er class.

The French team pushed Australia all the way, with three gold medals – Pierre Leboucher and Vincent Garos won the 470 Men, Charline Picon took gold home in the RS:X Women, and in the 2.4mR, it was Damien Seguin who did the business for France. The Dutch team then edged the home nation out of the gold medal table with wins in two classes, Marit Bouwmeester in the Laser Radial and Udo Hessels, Marcel van de Veen and Mischa Rossen in the Sonar. While Team Skandia GBR were left with a single gold, which was Giles Scott in the Finn. The consolation for the most successful Olympic sailing nation of the last three Olympiads was a hatful of silver and bronze – two silver and four bronze.

The venue, Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy is the 2012 Olympic venue and it threw everything at the competitors this week – saving the best for last, with a medal race day that was the best of the British summer; wind, rain, calms and even a little sunshine right at the end. The huge entry of 975 sailors from 57 nations spread across 712 boats in 13 classes will go home having learned to expect the unexpected in August 2012.

470 Men Results
Gold Leboucher and Garos FRA 31 points  
Silver Belcher and Page AUS 35 points  
Bronze Patience and Bithell GBR 58 points  

470 Women’s Results 
Gold Kondo and Tabata JPN 74 points  
Silver Pacheco and Betanzos ESP 91 points
Bronze Maxwell and Kinsolving USA 91 points  

49er Results 
Gold Outteridge and Jensen AUS 65 points  
Silver Kruger Andersen and Thorsell DEN 82 points
Bronze Morrison and Rhodes GBR 84 points  

Finn Results 
Gold Scott GBR 60 points  
Silver Lobert FRA 63 points
Bronze Kljakovic Gaspic CRO 66 points  
Laser Results  Gold Slingsby AUS 62 points  Silver Goodison GBR 74 points  Bronze Leigh CAN 93 points  

Laser Radial Results
Gold Bouwmeester NED 40 points
Silver Multala FIN 43 points
Bronze Winther NZL 46 points  

RS:X Men’s Results
Gold Rodrigues POR 38 points  
Silver Van Rijsselberge NED 42 points  
Bronze Dempsey GBR 43 points   

RS:X Women Results  
Gold Picon FRA 44 points
Silver Manchon ESP 50 points  
Bronze Shaw GBR 63 points  

Star results
Gold O'Leary and Kleen IRE 52 points  
Silver Loof and Tillander SWE 61 points  
Bronze Kusznierewicz and Zycki POL 65 points  

Women’s Match Racing 
Gold - Souter, Curtis and Price AUS 
Silver - Leroy, Bertrand and Riou FRA 
Bronze - Tunicliffe, Vandemer and Capozzi USA

2.4mR Results- Final  
Gold Seguin FRA 12 points  
Silver Schmitter NED 13 points  
Bronze Kol NED 27 points  

Skud-18 Results- Final  
Gold Fitzgibbon and Cox AUS 11 points
Silver Rickham and Birrell GBR 14.7 points  
Bronze McRoberts and Hopkin CAN 26 points

Sonar Results – Final
Gold Hessels, Rossen and Van de Veen NED 21 points
Silver Robertson, Stodel and Thomas GBR 26 points  
Bronze Cohen, Vexler and Efrati ISR 27 points  