Rio Olympics 2016: Britain's Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark win 470 sailing gold

Great Britain's Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark have won gold in the women's 470 sailing event at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The pair, silver medallists at the 2012 Olympics in London, only needed to finish the medal race on Thursday to win gold, and came in eighth. New Zealand's Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie won silver and Camille Lecointre and Helene Defrance of France took bronze. Britain have now won 21 gold medals in Rio, and a second in sailing after Giles Scott's win in the men's Finn. Wales' Mills, 28, and 36-year-old Clark, who comes from Essex, held a 20-point lead going into the medal race after winning three times and never finishing below eighth in the 10 races in the first series. The medal race had been scheduled to take place on Wednesday, but had been postponed until Thursday because of a lack of wind. Only a disqualification or technical problem could have denied Mills and Clark, fourth in the world rankings, and they stayed out of trouble as they were eighth out of 10. Slovenia won the final race but it was not enough to earn them a medal. The United States were in the bronze-medal position until a late mistake dropped them down to last place in the medal race, and seventh overall. Thank for reading. Kindly use the share button... Follow @IamKevinJasper on Twitter