2008
21
Aug
Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson have won the gold medal in the star, men’s kneel boat (sailing) event at the Beijing Olympics.
Brazil’s Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada took the silver and the bronze went to Sweden’s team of Fredrik Loof and Anders Ekstrom.
2008
21
Aug
Spanish sailor’s Fernando Echavarri and Anton Paz have won the gold medal in the tornado (Multihull) sailing event at the Beijing Olympics.
Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby of Australia won the silver medal and Santiago Lange and Carlos Espinola of Argentina won the bronze medal.
2008
20
Aug
The 2008 world champion Tom Ashley from New Zealand has won the gold medal in the men’s windsurfing, with 52 points. Julien Bontemps of France finished second, just one point behind.
Bontemps dropped his sail as he rounded the first buoy. He was in tears after the finish, hurling his sunglasses into [...]
2008
20
Aug
Yin Jian has won China’s first gold medal in sailing, by wining the women’s RS:X – windsurfing event.
Alessandra Sensini from Italy won the silver medal and Bryony Shaw from Great Britain won the bronze medal.
2008
19
Aug
Anna Tunnicliffe from the United States has won the gold medal in women’s laser, one person dinghy at the Beijing Olympics.
Gintare Volungeviciute from Lithuania win the silver medal and the bronze medal went to Lijia Xu from China.
2008
19
Aug
Paul Goodison of Great Britain has won the gold medal in the laser, men’s one person dinghy.
Vasilij Zbogar of Slovenia won the silver medal and Diego Romero of Italy won the bronze medal.
2008
18
Aug
Australia has added another medal to its count by winning the women’s 470 sailing event. Australia won the same event in the men’s division. The Netherlands won the silver and the bronze medal went to Brazil.
Australia:
RECHICHI Elise
PARKINSON Tessa
Netherlands:
de KONING Marcelien
BERKHOUT Lobke
Brazil:
OLIVEIRA Fernanda
SWAN Isabel
2008
18
Aug
Australia has won the gold medal in men’s 470 two person dingy sailing. Great Britain won the silver and France won the bronze medal.
Australia:
WILMOT Nathan
PAGE Malcolm
Great Britain:
ROGERS Nick
GLANFIELD Joe
France:
CHARBONNIER Nicolas
BAUSSET Olivier
2008
17
Aug
Defending Olympic champion Ben Ainslie of Great Britain won gold in the Finn (Heavyweight Dinghy), sailing evnet. He is the third sailor to win gold in three consecutive Olympic games.
The silver went to Zach Railey of the United States and Guillaume Florent of France won the bronze medal.
2008
17
Aug
Great Britain’s Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson have won the first gold medal in the sailing at the Beijing Olympics.
Netherlands team of MULDER Mandy Mulder, Annemieke Bes and Merel Witteveen have won silver.
Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou, Sofia Papadopoulou and Virginia Kravarioti won the bronze medal