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Olympics Aussie Tornado Team wins Silver

'Australia’’s Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby have won a Silver medal in the Tornado class in Qingdao, 2008 Olympic Regatta' Richard Gladwell Click Here to view large photo

Australia's Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby have won a Silver medal in the Tornado class in Qingdao.

The pair crossed the line of today's medal race in fifth position, just behind leaders Spain.

The result handed them the Silver medal, while Spain took Gold and Argentina claimed Bronze.

The result takes the Australian Sailing Team's results for this Olympic Games to two Gold and one Silver.

It is the second Olympic Silver medal for Darren Bundock, who won his first medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games with John Forbes, and the first medal for Glenn Ashby.

Today's Tornado medal race was possibly the last appearance of the Tornado at the Olympic Games, as it is not included in the sailing program for London 2012.

More from the Australian sailing team at the end of the day.

Tornado – Overall Results
POS	Country	Skipper/Crew	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Medal Race	Total	Net

1	ESP	Fernando Echavarri	1	6	1	4	7	-13	1	7	1	8	8	57	44
		Anton Paz Blanco
2	AUS	Darren Bundock	5	4	3	1	5	-9	2	8	7	4	10	58	49
		Glenn Ashby
3	ARG	Santiago Lange	-13	1	1	12	4	6	9	1	9	1	12	69	56
		Carlos Espinola
4	CAN	Oskar Johansson	8	3	9	9	1	-15	11	12	2	2	4	76	61
		Kevin Stittle
5	NED	Mitch Booth	3	-13	8	3	10	2	8	3	11	10	6	77	64
		Pim Nieuwenhuis
6	GBR	Leigh McMillan	6	8	13	8	-14	7	7	2	3	12	2	82	68
		Will Howden
7	ITA	Francesco Marcolini	-15	9	4	2	8	4	6	11	8	6	16	89	74
		Edoardo Bianchi
8	GER	Johannes Polgar	10	7	11	5	6	1	5	-13	4	3	22	87	74
		Florian Spalteholz											DNF
9	AUT	Roman Hagara	12	10	-14	10	11	3	3	9	5	5	14	96	82
		Hans Peter Steinacher
10	GRE	Iordanis Paschalidis	2	5	12	7	2	12	4	10	6	-13	22	95	82
		Konstantinos Trigonis											DNF

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by Australian Sailing Team Media 6:18 AM Thu 21 Aug 2008 GMT

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