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Last Updated: Friday, 21 March 2008, 21:26 GMT
Hat-trick of golds for GB sailors
Paul Goodison
Goodison won gold in the single-handed Laser class in Palma
Nick Dempsey and Paul Goodison matched Ben Ainslie's success to make it a hat-trick of gold medals for Great Britain at the Princess Sofia Trophy.

Dempsey and Goodison won the RS:X windsurfing and the single-handed Laser class respectively in Palma, Majorca.

Nick Thompson, Goodison's team-mate and training partner, ensured a British one-two in the Laser event.

Goodison said: "This event was almost like a test run for Beijing so it was important for me to do well here."

606: DEBATE

Britain's sailors overcame big waves and wind speeds in excess of 20 knots in Palma bay to take their final medal tally for the European circuit event to three golds, two silvers and one bronze.

Triple Olympic medallist Ainsle, 31, topped the Finn leaderboard with a day to spare.

World champions Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson won silver in the Yngling women's keelboat fleet, while Christina Bassadone and Saskia Clark clinched bronze in the 470 women's race.

In the 49er event, Paul Campbell-James and Mark Asquith ended the regatta in ninth place.



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