Sailing: Matt Wearn retains men’s dinghy Olympic title
On the resail of the men’s dinghy medal race, Australia’s overall fleet leader Matt Wearn only goes and puts the cherry on top by winning the medal race too!
Wearn becomes the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in this Laser (ILCA7) class, successfully defending his title from Tokyo with a total net score of 40 points.
Behind him, Cyprus’s Pavlos Kontides, a silver medallist from 12 years ago in London, crosses in second place to confirm overall silver, too, on 56 points.
And the battle for bronze between Peru’s Stefano Peschiera and Great Britain’s Michael Beckett went to the wire as first the Peruvian, then the Briton, picked up course penalties.
That dropped them to ninth and 10th respectively in the race, enough for Peschiera to hold on to third overall on 80 points.
It’s just Cyprus’s second Olympic medal in any sport in history, with Kontides having won the other in 2012; Peschiera has won Peru’s first Olympic medal in any sport since 1992.