Sailing World Cup Miami - Gold for Australian Paralympic crew

1:37 AM Sat 29 Jan 2011 GMT

'Daniel Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch won Gold on the water at Miami OCR 2011' &copy Rolex/Daniel Forster

Sailing World Cup Miami - New crewmates Daniel Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch have picked up Australia?s first medal at the 2011 Rolex Miami OCR, the second round of the ISAF Sailing World Cup, after winning Gold in the Skud 18 class. Fitzgibbon and Tesch, who only sailed for the first time together in Sydney on Boxing Day 2010 led the Skud 18 fleet from start to finish to eventually win by six points from Americans Scott Whitman and Julia Dorsett. Fitzgibbon, who won Silver at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, and Tesch, a three-time Paralympic Games Wheelchair Basketball medalist, teamed ...

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