Monday, 18 August 2008

Aussies win gold in style with medal race victory

(QINGDAO, August 18) -- With disqualification the only thing standing in the way of gold for Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page of Australia in the Men's 470 (Two Person Dinghy), the pair put an exclamation mark on their victory by finishing first in the medal race. Wilmot and Page took over first place after the third race and never looked back, building an insurmountable 22 point lead before the final race and winning with 44 points overall.

Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield of Great Britain jumped from fourth to second (75 net points) after a third-place finish in the medal race and Nicolas Charbonnier and Olivier Bausset of France (78 points) held off Sven and Kalle Coster of the Netherlands for bronze with a better finish on the final day of racing.

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