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Britain Tops Sail for Gold Medal Tally at Weymouth
In the Paralympic classes, Britain had two silver medals; John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas in the sonar, and Alex Rickham and Niki Birrell in the skud 18. Megan Pascoe’s fourth in the 2.4 meters put her in gold-winning position in the ISAF World Cup, the same position as Robertson, Stodel and Thomas. Rickham and Birrell won the silver.
Britain’s Olympic sailors have taken nine medals to outmanoeuvre the rest of the regatta in the Skandia Sail for Gold at Weymouth.
Given the magnificent facilities of the 2012 Olympic Sailing venue at Portland, Britain’s sailors produced outstanding results in the Skandia Sail for Gold regatta, once again establishing Britain as the world’s top sailing nation. A medal haul of two gold, six silver and a bronze was unmatched by any other nation’s team.
Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson were the first to be assured of their gold medal, in the star class, when the medal race was canceled. The Olympic champions had led the series from the outset and never looked in any danger of being beaten.
Nic Asher and Elliott Willis were the next to be crowned – the British pair had been in second, equal on points with the Australians Matthew Belcher and Martin Page, who had led the series all week. But the Australians were over the starting line early and that ditched their chances; they were fourth overall. Asher and Willis were eighth, good enough for gold, and bronze in the season-long ISAF World Cup. A second in the medal race took Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell into the silver-medal place.
Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Ally Martin were narrowly beaten in the final of the women’s match racing, but their silver medal also consolidated their victory in the ISAF World Cup. Nick Thompson took the laser class and Ed Wright the finns (in which he also took the silver medal at Weymouth), while Asher and Willis claimed a bronze.
The men’s world champion in the RS:X sailboards, Nick Dempsey, sat out this regatta but in the women’s event Bryony Shaw won silver. In the women’s 470, the new pairing of Pippa Wilson and Saskia Clark took home the bronze medal.
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