"Australia, France, Great Britain and Singapore win Gold on final day of 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship"
Excerpt from ISAF Youths Final Day Report: ' On the 420 course, today's breezy conditions were again just about perfect for the British Boy's pairing of Phil Sparks and Ben Gratton, who clinched the title with another dominant race win in today's decider. After being disqualified from race four of the series they've been virtually faultless for the second half of the championship.
' "We knew we were quick in this wind so we were quite conservative on the start and just went for the space," Sparks explains, "We speeded off the line and just went full speed upwind and got to the windward mark in first with a bit of a gap." From there only the Kiwis ever came close to threatening, but by the final run the Brits had victory secure and cruised across the line to take gold. In the battle for silver Chile's Benjam
