Sail: Britain Yngling trio wins first Games gold

AAP General News (Australia)
08-20-2004
Sail: Britain Yngling trio wins first Games gold

By Justin Palmer

ATHENS, Aug 19 Reuters - Britain's Shirley Robertson, Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb won
the first ever Yngling gold medal at an Olympic regatta with one race to spare on Thursday.

Robertson, who won the Europe class in Sydney, sealed her second successive gold as
the trio secured an unassailable lead with an eighth place in race 10.

The British trio hold a nine-point lead over Denmark's Dorte Jensen, Helle Jespersen
and Christine Otzen, who look set to fight it out for silver with the Ukraine crew. The
Yngling, a three-person boat with keel and three sails, replaced the Soling boat in Olympic
sailing after the 2000 Sydney Games.

It was Britain's first gold of these Games.

Reuters nh

KEYWORD: OLY SAI YNGLING

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