Laser World Championship - Slingsby secures third title

5:34 PM Sun 5 Sep 2010 GMT

'Tom Slingsby wins his third Laser Worlds title - Laser World Championships' Paul Wyeth / RYA

Laser World Championship - With a fourteenth from a dramatic, blustery 14th and final race off England's Hayling Island Australia's Tom Slingsby clinched his third Champion title in four years ahead of Skandia Team GBR's Nick Thompson who took silver. The title finale saw the strongest winds so far of the seven day regatta, gusting up to 23 knots kicking up the big waves that Hayling Bay is renowned for. By winning the final dramatic blustery race New Zealand's Andrew Murdoch secured his second World Championships bronze medal of his career. There were heart-stopping times for both Slingsby and Thompson ...

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