Paris 2024 Sailing: All results, as Austria take historic mixed dinghy gold

Austria’s Lara Vadlau and Lukas Maehr made Olympic history in Marseille after clinching gold in a nail-biting inaugural mixed dingy race at Paris 2024, finishing three points ahead of Okada Keiju and Yoshioka Miho of Japan on Thursday, 8 August.

It was Austria’s first gold medal of Paris 2024 and the first sailing gold for the landlocked country since Athens 2004.

"The last race was like the whole week," a relieved Vadlau said of the final. "We were often in the back and just made our way forward. This was by far the best week of our life. We said today we will end the week and make it a great one."

"It's a big, big honour to represent Austria at an Olympic Games and it's amazing," Maehr added. "We, as a small country without any sea, can still fight against such big nations and be a good sailing nation.

"We have a long tradition of good sailors, but it's very, very hard work to keep this level and the know-how, and we are as successful as we are now because we have so much support from home."

Japan will start the celebrations after winning silver, their first sailing medal of any colour in 20 years, when Okada's coach, Seki Kazuto, won bronze alongside Todoroki Kenjiro in the men's 470.

In a race postponed 24 hours due to a lack of wind, Sweden’s Anton Dahlberg and Lovisa Karlsson took bronze after edging ahead of Spain’s Jordi Xammar Hernandez and Nora Brugman Cabot who finished fourth.

"It's a big, big achievement," Okada said. "Austria and Spain and Sweden went right, and only we went left (on the course). So it made me feel a little bit nervous, but I believed in my eyes and that the left winds were coming, so it was really good for us."

Dahlberg said their move to the right of the course almost cost them dear. "We had a splendid start. We wanted to be on the right and we had a really good opportunity to tack in over the fleet. We didn't take that opportunity and then it became hard, very hard, but we never stopped believing. We took all the opportunities we had, and you know we were hunting.

"We just kept on, kept on, kept on. It feels amazing right now," he added.

Sailing: Mixed dinghy podium

Gold: Lara Vadlau and Lukas Maehr, Austria

Silver: Okada Keiju and Yoshioka Miho, Japan

Bronze:Anton Dahlberg and Lovisa Karlsson, Sweden

All results on Olympics.com