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Rio Olympics sailing results August 16th; Caleb Paine wins bronze

By Sarabeth Pollock

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 16: Caleb Paine of the United States celebrates winning the bronze medal in the Finn class on Day 11 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Marina da Gloria on August 16, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 16: Caleb Paine of the United States celebrates winning the bronze medal in the Finn class on Day 11 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Marina da Gloria on August 16, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images) /
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Recap of Olympics sailing on Tuesday, August 16th; Team USA’s Caleb Paine wins bronze in the men’s finn.

Olympics sailing continued on Tuesday, August 16th, with more preliminaries in the men’s and women’s 49er skiff, and the medal race in men’s finn dinghies and the mixed nacra 17 multihulls. Team USA’s Caleb Paine, a Point Loma High School alumni, won first place in the men’s finn race and took home the bronze medal, the first United States medal in sailing since 2008. Brazil took home two medals in today’s races.

On Monday, racing continued with the final preliminaries in the men’s and women’s 470 dinghies and men’s and women’s 49er skiffs. Monday’s medal race in women’s laser radial dinghies and men’s laser dinghies were postponed until Tuesday.

On Sunday, Team Netherlands had a very good day in the medal races in men’s and women’s 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.

Here are the results for Day 11 of Olympics sailing:

Men’s finn (dinghy) Medal Race: 1st place Caleb Paine, United States; 2nd place Giles Scott, Great Britain; 3rd place Jorge Zarif, Brazil

Mixed nacra 17 (multihull) Medal Race: 1st place New Zealand, 2nd place Australia, 3rd place Austria

Women’s laser radial (dinghy) Medal Race: 1st place Alison Young, Great Britain; 2nd place Ashley Stoddart, Australia; 3rd place Josefin Olsson, Sweden

Men’s laser radial (dinghy) Medal Race: 1st place Robert Scheidt, Brazil; 2nd place Jean Baptiste Bernaz; 3rd place Tom Burton, Australia

Men’s 49er (skiff) Preliminaries Race 10: 1st place Great Britain

Women’s 49er FX (skiff) Preliminaries Race 10: 1st place Denmark

Men’s 49er (skiff) Preliminaries Race 11: 1st place Denmark

Women’s 49er FX (skiff) Preliminaries Race 11: 1st place France

Women’s 49er FX (skiff) Preliminaries Race 12: 1st place Spain

Men’s 49er (skiff) Preliminaries Race 12: 1st place Ireland

Next: 50 greatest summer olympians

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

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