Pink and Peacock have cause for early celebrations as they ensured victory in the 49er class with a day to spare, with teammates Paul Brotherton-Mark Asquith and Dave Evans-Ed Powys all but guaranteeing a clean sweep of the podium spots in the skiff event.

The battle for Finn glory continues, with Britain's three contenders finishing in the top three in both of the fleet's races today, as well as occupying the top three spots heading into the final 10-boat showdown.

Giles Scott holds on to the lead, but Andrew Mills claimed the best of the day's results with a 2,1 seeing him into second overall, just one point ahead of teammate Ben Ainslie.

"It was quite a tricky day with some good 15-20 degree shifts but I seemed to have some good pace and managed to hold it all together," Mills said.

The British men's 470 crews had a tougher time, but still hold on to the top two spots heading into the final day.

Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell have a four point edge of teammates Nic Asher and Elliot Willis, who lead the Australian world champions by a similar margin.

Penny Clark and Katrina Hughes bounced back from a black flag disqualification in their first race of the day to maintain their second place overall, six points off the French series leaders, while Sarah Ayton and Saskia Clark also make the medal race cut in ninth place.

Hannah Mills and Katie Archer had the best of the day's results with 1,4,1 but it was not enough to boost them into the missed the medal spots, they missed out by one point.

The Laser finale looks set to be a tense one, with Olympic champion Paul Goodison, Swede Rasmus Myrgren and Argentinian Julio Alsogaray all effectively tied for the lead in the double-points scoring medal race, and Britain's world silver medallist Nick Thompson snapping at their heels in fourth.

Nick Dempsey needs to get one board between him and the leading Dutchman Dorien van Rijsselberge to clinch gold in the RS:X men's windsurfing event, with Bryony Shaw in a strong position for silver in the women's event.

There was disappointment for Lucy Macgregor, Mary Rook and Kate Macgregor when they lost out 3-0 to United States Anna Tunnicliffe in the semi-finals of the women's match racing event.

They will fight it out for bronze against another American team, helmed by Sally Barkow, in tomorrow's play-off

Alison Young will be the sole British representative in the Laser Radial medal race, qualifying in ninth.


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