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Rio Olympics sailing 2016 results: August 15

By Sarabeth Pollock

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 15: Giulia Conti of Italy and Francesca Clapcich of Italy compete during their Women's 49er FX class race on Day 10 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Marina da Gloria on August 15, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 15: Giulia Conti of Italy and Francesca Clapcich of Italy compete during their Women's 49er FX class race on Day 10 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Marina da Gloria on August 15, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images) /
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Complete results for Olympics sailing on Monday, August 15th; two medal races postponed until Tuesday.

Olympics sailing events are coming to a close in Rio over the next four days, signaling an end to the final preliminary events and transitioning into medal events. So far, there have been two sailing medal events: men’s and women’s RS: X windsurfers on Sunday.

The men’s laser and women’s laser radial dinghy medal races were scheduled for Monday but were added to Tuesday’s schedule, while the preliminaries continued in men’s and women’s 49er and 470 skiffs. Monday’s preliminaries were dominated by France, who won half of the events.

On Sunday, Team Netherlands won both the men’s and women’s medals in the RS: X windsurfers. On the men’s side, Dorian van Rijsselberghe came in first place for the Netherlands, followed by Ivan Pastor of Spain and Chun Leung Michael Cheng of Hong Kong, China. Van Rijsselberghe has been dominating the men’s RS: X preliminaries and it’s no surprise that he’s the gold medalist.

The medal race for the women’s RS: X windsurfers was a tight race between a group of women who all had strong showings in the preliminaries. Lilian de Geus of the Netherlands came in first, taking the gold medal, followed by Charline Picon of France with silver, and Chen Peina of China with bronze. Brazilian Patricia Freitas came in fourth place.

Olympics sailing continues on Tuesday, August 16th, with more preliminaries in the men’s and women’s 49er skiff, 470 dinghy, and the medal race in men’s finn dinghies and the mixed nacra 17 multihulls, as well as the rescheduled medal races in men’s laser and women’s laser radial dinghies.

Here are the full results for Day 10 of Olympics sailing:

12:05pm ET: Men’s 49er (skiff) Preliminaries Race 7: 1st place France

12:05pm ET: Women’s 49er FX (skiff) Preliminaries Race 7: 1st place France

1:05pm ET: Men’s 49er (skiff) Preliminaries Race 8: 1st place France

1:05pm ET: Women’s 49er FX (skiff) Preliminaries Race 8: 1st place Spain

2:05pm ET: Women’s 49er FX (skiff) Preliminaries Race 9: 1st place Spain

2:05pm ET: Men’s 49er (skiff) Preliminaries Race 9: 1st place New Zealand

Next: 50 greatest summer olympians

The sailing competition comes to an end on Thursday, August 18.

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