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Aussies win 3rd Olympic sailing gold

The Columbian
Published: August 9, 2012, 5:00pm

WEYMOUTH, England (AP) — Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page of Australia held off their British rivals to win the Olympic gold medal in the men’s 470 class Friday, guaranteeing that the team from Down Under will finish with more sailing golds than the host country.

Australia has three sailing golds to Britain’s one. Britain has only one more chance to win gold, the women’s 470.

Britain’s Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell sailed well early in the medals race before being overhauled by the Aussies on the first downwind leg. Patience and Bithell took the silver, and Argentina’s Lucas Calabrese and Juan de la Fuente won the bronze.

Australia finished second in the medals race and the British crew was fourth. The British needed to finish ahead of the Aussies, with a boat between, to win the gold.

Page was on the winning 470 crew in Beijing, sailing with Nathan Wilmot.

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