IT HAS been a wonderful day for Weymouth and Portland's sailors as Giles Scott has guaranteed himself the Olympic Finn gold on his Games debut (provisional result) after his performance in Rio today just hours after Nick Dempsey secured a silver medal.
Heading into their final two races of the 10-race opening series today, Portland-based Scott held a 17-point advantage over his nearest rival Vasilij Zbogar (SLO).
And scores of eighth and second from the Finn’s two races out on the Niterói ocean course outside of Guanabara Bay this evening mean the four-time World Champion Scott cannot be knocked off the top of the podium in Tuesday’s Medal Race.
With that race worth double points, even if Scott, 29, was disqualified and scored the worst possible result of 22 points, he still couldn’t be beaten to the gold medal.
Scott’s victory means that Britain has now won the Finn men’s heavyweight dinghy class as the last five Olympics – Iain Percy (Sydney 2000), Ben Ainslie (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012) and Scott (Rio 2016).
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