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Savannah, USA

The sailing competition took place in Savannah, which was 240 miles south-east of Atlanta. The administration base on Tybee Island was created five miles out of town from where another three-mile ferry journey was needed to reach the temporary Olympic Marina on Wilmington Island. Further still was a day marina, built of out barges towed around from the Mississippi, which was moored near Williamson Island. Finally athletes sailed into the shallow, murky waters of Wassaw Sound for the racing.

Convective activity played havoc at the start of the regatta, with a furious lightning storm coming through on practice day and only three of eight races possible on the first day. Thunderstorms and light winds totalled up to make this a difficult regatta in terms of both commuting and competing.

Spain’s Teresa Zabell won a second successive 470 Women’s gold, with Japan’s Alicia Kinoshita and Yumiko Shige in the silver position and with it claiming Japan's first Olympic medal in the 470 Class. The Ukrainians Yevhen Braslavets and Ihor Matviyenko claimed the Men’s 470 gold, with Ruslana Taran and Olena Pakholchyk the bronze - double glory and the Ukraine's first 470 medals.

Men

Position	Crew	Nation
1	Eugen BRASLAVETS Ihor MATVIYENKO	UKR
2	John MERRICKS Ian WALKER	GBR
3	Victor Hugo ROCHA Nuno BARRETO	POR
4	Mika Lauri AARNIKKA Petri LESKINEN	FIN
5	Dmitri BEREZKIN Yevgeniy BURMATNOV	RUS
6	Gwenael BERTHET Jean-Francois BERTHET	FRA
7	Martin BILLOCH Martin RODRIGUEZ	ARG
8	Kevin BURNHAM Morgan REESER	USA
9	Jordi CALAFAT Francisco SANCHEZ	ESP
10	Tonu TONISTE Toomas TONISTE	EST
11	Andreas KOSMATOPOULOS Konstantinos TRIGONIS	GRE
12	Torsten HAVERLAND Ronald RENSCH	GER
13	Marko MISURA Ivan KURET	CRO
14	Tomaz COPI Mitja MARGON	SLO
15	Matteo IVALDI Michele IVALDI	ITA
16	Zdzislaw STANIUL Marek CHOCIAN	POL
17	Kenji NAKAMURA Masato TAKAKI	JPN
18	Marcus WESTERLAND Henrik WALLIN	SWE
19	Ran SHENTAL Nir SHENTAL	ISR
20	Paul HANNAM Brian STOREY	CAN
21	Botond LITKEY Zsolt NYARI	HUN
22	Andrew STONE Rohan COOKE	NZL
23	Tom KING Owen MCMAHON	AUS
24	Benny KOUWENHOVEN Jan KOUWENHOVEN	NED
25	Bryant SIH Brady SIH	TPE
26	Pedro FERNANDEZ Angel Alfredo JIMENEZ	CUB
27	David RAMON Oscar RAMON	AND
28	Daeyoung KIM Sung An JUNG	KOR
29	Rodrigo AMADO Leonardo SANTOS	BRA
30	Christopher RAST Jean-Pierre ZIEGERT	SUI
31	Peter Antony Mega ELTON Nicolas EPIPHANIOU	CYP
32	Jaroslav FERIANEC Igor KARVAS	SVK
33	Andrew Kenneth GOODING Joseph STOCKHAUSEN	JAM
34	Sukru SANUS B.kerem OZKAN	TUR
35	Shaw Her SIEW Yi Yong LIM	SIN
36	Yuk Wah CHAN Andrew SERVICE	HKG

 Women

Position	Crew	Nation
1	Theresa ZABELL Begona VIA DUFRESNE	ESP
2	Yumiko SHIGE Alicia KINOSHITA	JPN
3	Ruslana TARAN Olena PAKHOLCHYK	UKR
4	Kris STOOKEY Louise VAN VOORHIS	USA
5	Kathrin ADLKOFER Susanne BAUCKHOLT	GER
6	Susanne WARD Lise Michaela WARD	DEN
7	Federica SALVA Emanuela SOSSI	ITA
8	Addy Elizabeth BUCEK Jennifer Norton LIDGETT	AUS
9	Leigh PEARSON Penny DAVIS	CAN
10	Ida Katrine ANDERSEN Linda ANDERSEN	NOR
11	Sue CARR Bethan RAGGATT	GBR
12	Anat FABRIKANT Shany KEDMY	ISR
13	Louise COLE Denise LYTTLE	IRL
14	Lena CARLSSON Boel BENGTSSON	SWE
15	Florence LE BRUN Annabel CHAULVIN	FRA
16	Janet Lee SHEARER Leslie Jean EGNOT	NZL
17	Katerina KALOUDI Emilia TSOULFA	GRE
18	Katalin BACSICS Eniko NEMETH	HUN
19	Alenka OREL Janja OREL	SLO
20	Mei Han CHEUNG Chun Mei TUNG	HKG
21	Haimei LIU Fengqin JI	CHN
22	Paula REINOSO Sofia USANDIZAGA	ARG

Source: ISAF

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Published Date: 26/01/2010