Australia wins first Sailing Gold Medal

by Rob Kothe on 16 Aug 2008 Australian sailors Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page guaranteed a Gold Medal for Australia in the 470 Mens Class this afternoon took an unbeatable 22 point lead going into the 470 Medal Race.

A third place and a tenth in races nine and ten, gave then a ten race series total of 42 points, while the Dutch Coster brothers have 64 point. In third place are the French pairing of Nic Charbonnier and Olivier Bausset on 64 points.

Dockside, most of the Australian team came down to support their 470 Men.

An Australian reporter asked 'How does it feel winning the first Gold Medal for Australia and beating the Brits?

'It does not get any better than that does it' laughed Malcolm Page

'We’ve had enormous support from everyone and some pretty amazing support too. During the week I bumped a call from Nicole Kidman, then 30 seconds later got an SMS wishing us the best. It made good conversation at breakfast.'

Nathan Wilmot explained 'There have been six boat we named after her movies, our favourite move is Dead Calm. – that is the boat we won the test event in, appropriate for the venue. But Australia is the name of this boat and that’s turned out to be the best boat name we’ve had.

The Australian pairing have been dieting for a decade, nNow they are on the eve of their retirement. What are you going to eat tonight, they were asked?- 'A lot, we don’t know what, just a lot..'

470 - Men - Overall Results
POS	Country	Skipper/Crew
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Net
1	AUS	Nathan Wilmot	4	7	3	3	3	4	5	-16	3	10	58	42
		Malcolm Page
2	NED	Sven Coster	11	-15	12	2	8	15	2	8	4	2	79	64
		Kalle Coster
3	FRA	Nicolas Charbonnier	6	3	8	1	6	18	3	14	7	-20	86	66
		Olivier Bausset
4	GBR	Nick Rogers	19	5	1	4	9	6	20	-30	2	3	99	69
		Joe Glanfield								OCS
5	ESP	Onan Barreiros	8	2	6	9	13	13	13	4	11	-18	97	79
		Aaron Sarmiento
6	ITA	Gabrio Zandona	10	4	7	7	2	21	19	6	-29	5	110	81
		Andrea Trani
7	POR	Alvaro Marinho	2	8	15	6	11	7	9	-30	10	14	112	82
		Miguel Nunes								OCS
8	CRO	Sime Fantela	18	6	9	-30	12	17	6	7	15	1	121	91
		Igor Marenic				OCS
9	ARG	Javier Conte	14	14	4	11	19	9	7	-30	5	9	122	92
		Juan de la Fuente								OCS
10	JPN	Tetsuya Matsunaga	1	20	-24	13	10	14	1	9	21	4	117	93
		Taro Ueno
11	NZL	Carl Evans	7	10	14	12	-30	10	22	12	1	7	125	95
		Peter Burling					BFD
12	GRE	Andreas Kosmatopoulos	5	26	11	8	5	5	18	3	20	-29	130	101
		Andreas Papadopoulos
13	USA	Stuart Mcnay	26	12	-30	17	15	1	4	1	6	23	135	105
		Graham Biehl			OCS
14	ISR	Gideon Kliger	13	16	13	14	-30	11	15	2	12	12	138	108
		Udi Gal					BFD
15	SWE	Anton Dahlberg	16	18	2	5	-30	20	17	13	14	6	141	111
		Sebastian Ostling					BFD
16	IRL	Ger Owens	22	1	17	15	1	-25	21	15	13	24	154	129
		Philip Lawton
17	BRA	Fabio Silva	9	-30	10	18	4	30	16	10	24	13	164	134
		Samuel Albrecht		OCS				OCS
18	SLO	Karlo Hmeljak	3	11	19	10	18	-30	25	20	25	8	169	139
		Mitja Nevecny						OCS
19	POL	Patryk Piasecki	20	9	20	23	17	16	8	-24	23	15	175	151
		Kacper Zieminski
20	RUS	Mikhail Sheremetyev	-27	21	22	21	24	12	11	11	18	17	184	157
		Maxim Sheremetyev
21	BLR	Sergei Desukevich	-29	27	16	26	16	2	12	17	16	27	188	159
		Pavel Logunov
22	SIN	Yuanzhen Xu	15	17	18	19	-30	8	10	19	27	26	189	159
		Terence Koh					BFD
23	SUI	Tobias Etter	21	23	5	25	7	-30	27	26	9	19	192	162
		Felix Steiger						OCS
24	AUT	Matthias Schmid	24	19	-25	24	14	24	24	5	19	11	189	164
		Florian Reichstadter
25	KOR	Cheul Yoon	17	24	21	-27	20	3	23	25	22	25	207	180
		Hyeong Tae Kim
26	CHN	Weidong Wang	12	-30	23	16	21	26	30	22	8	28	216	186
		Daokun Deng		DSQ					OCS
27	FIN	Niklas Lindgren	28	22	27	-30	25	19	14	23	17	21	226	196
		Heikki Elomaa				DSQ
28	TUR	Deniz Cinar	23	13	26	22	22	23	26	21	-28	22	226	198
		Ates Cinar
29	CAN	Stephane Locas	25	25	-30	20	23	22	30	18	26	16	235	205
		Oliver Bone			OCS				OCS

470 - Women - Overall Results
POS	Country	Skipper/Crew
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Net
1	AUS	Elise Rechichi	2	2	4	1	-9	4	2	5	3	2	34	25
		Tessa Parkinson
2	NED	Marcelien De Koning	3	1	9	5	2	2	10	7	4	-16	59	43
		Lobke Berkhout
3	BRA	Fernanda Oliveira	11	-16	5	10	7	6	6	2	7	4	74	58
		Isabel Swan
4	ISR	Nike Kornecki	8	13	1	2	8	-19	3	1	11	15	81	62
		Vered Buskila
5	AUT	Sylvia Vogl	9	-20	13	7	1	7	1	13	6	11	88	68
		Carolina Flatscher		DSQ
6	CZE	Lenka Smidova	6	4	-12	11	11	5	11	11	9	1	81	69
		Lenka Mrzilkova
7	ITA	Giulia Conti	14	7	6	3	6	11	4	-19	12	6	88	69
		Giovanna Micol
8	ESP	Natalia Via Dufresne	4	5	2	6	13	10	13	-17	2	17	89	72
		Laia Tutzo
9	GBR	Christina Bassadone	-20	8	3	4	15	13	8	3	15	5	94	74
		Saskia Clark	DSQ
10	GER	Stefanie Rothweiler	7	6	11	9	5	12	-20	8	8	12	98	78
		Vivien Kussatz							OCS
11	FRA	Ingrid Petitjean	1	11	16	8	-17	9	9	9	13	9	102	85
		Gwendolyn Lemaitre
12	USA	Amanda Clark	12	12	10	14	4	-17	7	6	17	7	106	89
		Sarah Mergenthaler
13	SLO	Vesna Dekleva	-20	3	8	16	12	3	15	18	14	3	112	92
		Klara Maucec	DSQ
14	JPN	Ai Kondo	13	-15	14	15	14	1	12	10	1	13	108	93
		Naoko Kamata
15	SWE	Therese Torgersson	10	14	18	-20	19	8	5	14	5	8	121	101
		Vendela Santen				DSQ
16	ARG	María Fernanda Sesto	16	-18	17	12	10	16	14	4	10	14	131	113
		Consuelo Monsegur
17	SUI	Emmanuelle Rol	15	9	7	13	3	15	-20	15	18	19	134	114
		Anne Sophie Thilo							OCS
18	CHN	Yimei Wen	5	10	19	17	16	14	-20	12	16	10	139	119
		Chunyan Yu							OCS
19	SIN	Liying Toh	17	17	15	18	18	18	-20	16	19	18	176	156
		Deborah Ong							OCS