HANNAH Mills and Saskia Clark were the British Sailing Team’s golden girls on a final day of World Cup racing in Hyeres which also yielded a silver and two bronze medals for Great Britain’s Olympic medal hopefuls.

The four medals from the final day of Olympic classes competition at the stormy French Riviera venue on Sunday add to the silver medal won by the Paralympic trio of John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas on Saturday.

Mills and Clark’s medal race was the first to get underway, with the Olympic silver medallists – who both train at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy – going in to the final race in overall second, just a point behind the French leaders and a point ahead of the Brazilian crew in third.

“It was exciting – it was absolutely freezing as well!” Mills explained of the final race. “I think some English weather maybe helped us! It was really exciting, really tight, all the top boats were right up there in the mix so it was a ‘who beat who’ scenario.”

The Brazilian team of Fernanda Oliviera and Ana Luisa Barbachan got off to a superior start, leaving the Brits to protect their silver position against the hosts of Camille Lecointre and Helene Defrance.

But the New Zealand Olympic Champions Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie reined in the Brazilian duo on the second lap, which meant that Mills and Clark’s third place in the medal race, with the French still behind them, allowed them to take gold.

“We had our eyes on what was going on, we caught the Brazilians up quite a lot up on that second beat and once we saw that the Kiwis had definitely passed them we relaxed a bit on them and really wanted to protect from the French to make sure we got the win,” Mills continued.

All but guaranteed a podium finish heading into the final day, Bryony Shaw consolidated her silver medal position in the RS:X women’s windsurfing event. She finished third in the medal race to extend her impressive run of podium finishes, but admitted to feeling frustrated with part of her regatta.

“It’s been a tough week with just little mistakes here and there that haven’t really shown my form in the results. But I finished third in the medal race and second overall so that’s a good result, but I’ve had some little frustrations in my own sailing this week,” the 33-year-old explained.

“I’m really pleased that there are no major things to work on heading in to Rio. I’ll keep my head down and keep smiling, keep enjoying it and hopefully it will all come together in the summer.”

Nick Dempsey made it two windsurfing medals with a bronze in the RS:X men’s race, although he never made it on to the water on Sunday. Beset by weather delays, the men’s windsurfing fleet were unable to start a race before the official cut off time, so Dempsey’s overall third place from the previous day stood.

The Olympic silver and bronze medallist was content with his performance at a venue he historically has not enjoyed.

“It’s really easy to look back on this week and see all the points you’ve lost and that you feel like you really could’ve, should’ve won,” he explained.

“But at the end of the day it’s another good event for me. I was second in Brazil in December, second in Miami, fourth at the Worlds, third here. It’s all good stuff and it’s all racing out for the front, racing for gold medals.

“That’s all really encouraging and just backs up that everything’s on track and looking good for the summer. Now it will be nice to really turn the focus 100 per cent to Rio and start working on the final details of how we’re going to win.”