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Result: Team GB win gold in women's 470 sailing

Great Britain win their 21st gold medal of the 2016 Olympic Games after Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark triumph in the women's 470 sailing.

Great Britain have won their 21st gold medal of the 2016 Olympic Games after Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark triumphed in the women's 470 sailing on Thursday.

Mills, 28, and Clark, 36, who won silver at London 2012, held a 20-point lead going into the finale and only needed to finish the race on Thursday to secure first after bad weather forced Wednesday's event to be postponed.

As it transpired, Mills and Clark safely finished eighth out of 10 boats in the finale to claim the gold in Rio.

The Team GB pair beat New Zealand's Polly Powrie and Jo Aleh to the silver medal, while France's Helene Defrance and Camille Lecointre finished in third, claiming bronze in the process.

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Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark of Great Britain sail on the Copacobana course during the Women's 470 Class as part of the Aquece Rio International Sailing Regatta on August 5, 2014
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ChinaChina21131246
JapanJapan175830
United StatesUnited States16171346
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AustraliaAustralia1031427
Great BritainGreat Britain891128
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Saturday's key events


TRIATHLON
· After silvers in both the men's and women's events, Team GB will be fancied to get on the podium again in the mixed relay (11.30pm-1am)

SWIMMING
· Touted as Michael Phelps's successor, Caeleb Dressel already has two gold medals from these Games and he will be going for a third in the men's 50m butterfly final (2.30am)
· It is Katie Ledecky vs. Ariarne Titmus III in the women's 800m freestyle final, with Ledecky entering as firm favourite (2.46am)
· Great Britain will be heavily fancied to add another gold medal to their swimming haul, having produced by far the fastest qualifying time for the mixed 4x100m medley relay final (3.43am)

ATHLETICS
· Dina Asher-Smith is one of three British women in the 100m semi-finals (3.01am-3.20am), and will hope to challenge for a medal in what is likely to be a star-studded final (1.50pm)
· The inaugural Olympic 4x400m mixed relay event concludes with Great Britain one of the eight finalists going for gold (1.35pm)

RUGBY SEVENS
· Team GB's dreams of an unlikely gold are still alive in the women's event as they face France in their semi-final (3.30am). The winners will face either New Zealand or Fiji in the gold medal match later in the day (10am)

SAILING
· Gold medals are up for grabs in the windsurfer - RS:X finals. Emma Wilson participates for Team GB in the women's final (6.33am), while Tom Squires is in action in the men's (7.33am)

TENNIS
· Following his shock semi-final defeat, ending his hopes of a Golden Slam in 2021, Novak Djokovic battles for bronze against Pablo Carreno Busta (7am)
· The women's singles event reaches its conclusion with the gold medal match between Belinda Bencic and Marketa Vondrousova

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