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Kiwis In Qingdao: Medal Race - Andrew Murdoch |
Sail-World presents its coverage of the first medal race in Qingdao involving New Zealand sailors.
Andrew Murdoch competed in the Medal race for the Mens Laser, this afternoon in Qingdao. He had an outside chance of a medal, however in spite of winning the race, he finished 5th overall.
In this sequence, Murdoch started at the Committee end of the line, then tacked for the seawall at Qingdao, to escape the tide, initially he was buried, however when he came off the wall he was ahead of most of the fleet, and picked up the remainder after another couple of tacks.
The wind lightened as the fleet neared the top mark, and Murdoch rounded with a good lead. Behind him the match race between series leader Paul Goodison (SWE) and Rasmus Mygren (SWE) had resulted in the Swede being sailed off the course and out of contention for any medal.
In the end it was the Slovenian sailor Vasilij Zbogar who took the Silver medal and Dieho Romero (ITA) the bronze. Andrew Murdoch was in fifth place six points away from a medal.
 | Paul Goodison (GBR) and Rasmus Myrgren (SWE) indulge in a match race - 2008 Olympics Qingdao - Medal Race - Laser - Richard Gladwell |
 | Vasilij Zbogar (SLO) eventual silver medalist crosses ahead of the Gold medalist, Paul Goodison (GBR) ion the first beat of the 2008 Olympics Qingdao - Medal Race - Laser - Richard Gladwell |
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by Richard Gladwell, Sail-World
6:46 AM Tue 19 Aug 2008 GMT
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