470 GOLD

Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox won gold in their first World Cup Series regatta – and first event in Europe – at the recent Genoa event.

The pair finished third in the men’s 470 medal race and, crucially, were two boats ahead of Zangjun Xu and Chao Wang of China who started the day in first, to win the event by one point. That gold medal came on the back of the silver won by Isaac McHardie and William McKenzie and bronze picked up by Peter Burling and Blair Tuke in the 49er on the first day of medal racing.