Mills and McIntyre’s silver lining bolsters British Sailing Team’s Hyeres haul
Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre doubled the British Sailing Team’s medal tally at the World Cup Series in Hyeres, France, in the final race of the week-long Olympic classes regatta claiming a silver medal in the final race.
The pair began the women’s 470 medal race finale safe in the knowledge that they had second place sown up, but wanting to steal gold from France’s Camille Lecointre and Aloise Retornaz.
Rio 2016 gold medallist Mills and crew McIntyre crossed the line in eighth position, two places ahead of their rivals, but it wasn’t enough to usurp Lecointre and Retornaz from the top spot.
“I feel good,” said Mills, 30, from Cardiff. “It was a really exciting race. It was nice to have the confidence of having the silver medal and being able to attack, attack, attack. But we were frustrated we couldn’t quite pull it off.”
Their success in Hyeres brings their tally to one gold and four silvers as they build toward a tilt at a world championships in Aarhus, Denmark, in August.
Mills and McIntyre’s medal adds to the silver the British Sailing Team won on the penultimate day by Ben Saxton and Nicola Boniface in the Nacra 17.
World Cup Series Hyeres was the third and final round of the international series. The final will take place in Marseille from 3 – 10 June.
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