British sailors put on an impressive display as the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta threw open its doors to over 1000 spectators for the final medal deciding day of the event over the weekend.

Team GBR landed a spectacular seven medals in front of the home crowd with two gold, four silver and one bronze adding to the two silvers won in the Paralympic classes on Friday to ensure the largest medal haul of any nation at the event.

The wind initially refused to play at the scheduled race start time at Weymouth and Portland’s National Sailing Academy however, despite medal races being canned in Finn, Star, Laser, RS:X Men’s and Women’s windsurfing classes, medal race action graced the crowds in five classes – the Elliot 6m, Laser Radial, 470 Men’s, 470 Women’s and 49er.

Regatta Golds went to British Olympic Star Champions Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson, having not dropped from top spot all week, and Nic Asher and Elliot Willis in the 470 Men’s class.

Top three by class:

Finn
1. Ivan Gaspic, CRO, 25 points

2. Edward Wright, GBR, 34

3. Zach Railey, USA, 38

Laser

1. Tom Slingsby, AUS, 10

2. Pavlos Kontides, CYP, 35

3. Andreas Geritzer, AUT, 36

Laser Radial

1. Sari Multala, FIN, 28 points

2. Sarah Steyaert, FRA, 36

3. Marit Bouwmeester, NED, 45

470 Men

1. Nic Asher / Elliot Willis, GBR, 36

2. Luke Patience / Stuart Bithell, GBR, 38

3. Onan Barreiros / Aaron Sarmiento, ESP, 41

470 Women

1. Lisa Westerhof / Lobke Berkhout, NED, 37

2. Jo Aleh / Olivia Powrie, 40

3. Pippa Wilson / Saskia Clark, 43

49er

1. Nathan Outteridge / Iain Jensen, AUS, 40

2. Pietro Sibello / Gianfranco Sibello, ITA, 66

3. Manu Dyen / Stephane Christidis, FRA, 67

Star

1. Iain Percy / Andrew Simpson, GBR, 25

2. Fredrik Loof / Johan TIllander, SWE, 38

3. Flavio Marazzi / Enrico De Maria, SUI, 41

RS:X Men

1. Ricardo Santos, BRA, 16

2. Joau Rodrigues, POR, 28

3. Julien Bontemps, FRA, 35

RS:X Women

1. BLanca Mancon, ESP. 19

2. Bryony Shaw, GBR, 27

3. Flavia Tartaglini, ITA, 30

Women’s Match Racing

1. Renee Groeneveld / Annemieke Bes / Brechtje van der Werf, NED

2. Lucy Macgregor / Annie Lush / Ally Martin, GBR

3. Anna Tunnicliffe / Molly Vandermoer / Alice Manard, USA

2.4mr

1. Thierry Schmitter, NED, 9

2. Damien Seguin, FRA, 10

3. Andre Rademaker, NED

Skud-18

1. Scott Whitman / Julia Dorsett, USA, 7

2. Alexandra Rickham / Niki Birrell, GBR, 10

3. John McRoberts / Brenda Hopkin, CAN, 18

Sonar

1. Rick Doerr / Hugh Freund / Maureen McKinnon-Tucker, USA, 12

2. John Robertson / Hannah Stodel / Steve Thomas, GBR, 14

3. Bruno Jourden / Eric Flageul / Nicolas Vimon-Vicary, FRA, 23

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