Day 6 Race Action
Laser Radials battle for Gold at US SAILING's Rolex Miami OCR.
(Credit: Walter Cooper/ US SAILING)

Medal Races Determine Champions in Nine Olympic Classes

MIAMI, FLA. (January 31, 2009) – It’s not often in a sailing regatta that a single 30-minute race decides the outcome, but that’s exactly what happened on the last day of competition for US SAILING’s Rolex Miami OCR, serving as the second of seven on the 2008 - 2009 ISAF Sailing World Cup tour.  The event, which began on Monday, hosted 444 sailors from 41 countries in ten Olympic and three Paralympic classes, with nine of those Olympic classes participating in today’s spectacular finale in which top-ten sailors, determined from scores after five days of fleet racing, competed in medal races that counted double for points and could not be used as throw-outs. (Paralympic and Women’s Match Racing medals were determined yesterday, according to schedule.). More