In a massive upset the British pair, Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell, take 49er Gold at the Tokyo Games.
Fletcher and Bithell outsailed the defending champions, Pete Burling and Blair Tuke of New Zealand, who take the Silver, with Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel of Germany the Bronze.
Fletcher and Bithell won the Medal race, with Heil and Ploessel taking second and the Kiwi pair in third place.
Victory in the medal race, with Burling and Tuke in third place, tied the Brits and Kiwis on 58 points, with Fletcher and Bithell claiming overall victory with the medal race win.
This is the first time that Britain has won the 49er event since the class was introduced in the Sydney 2000 Games.
49er Men – Final after 12 races + Medal race (21 entries)
Gold GBR Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell – – 2 – – 58 pts
Silver NZL Peter Burling and Blair Tuke – – 6 – – 58 pts
Bronze GER Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel – – 4 – – 70 pts
4th ESP Diego Botin and Iago Lopez Marra – – 14 – – 70 pts
5th DEN Jonas Warrer and Jakob Jensen – – 16 – – 82 pts
6th NED Bart Lambriex and Pim van Vugt – – 12 – – 87 pts
7th POR Jorge Lima and Jose Costa – – 22 OCS – – 94 pts
8th CRO Sime Fantela and Mihovil Fantela – – 18 – – 106 pts
9th POL Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Kolodzinski – – 8 – – 108 pts
10th AUT Benjamin Bildstein and David Hussl – – 10 – – 114 pts
