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Another golden chapter in Laser sailing for Australia

 

Another golden chapter in Laser sailing for Australia

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Matt Wearn of Team Australia celebrates winning gold after finishing first in the Men's Laser class on day nine of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Enoshima Yacht Harbour on August 01, 2021 in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Olympic champion Matt Wearn has joined an elite, and very distinguished group, of Australian Laser sailors.

'This kid has got it'. Those are the words London 2012 Laser gold medallist and triple World Champion Tom Slingsby remembers his coach saying, when he first saw newly crowned Olympic champion Matt Wearn race over a decade ago.