WEYMOUTH, England — Marina Alabau of Spain won the Olympic gold medal in women's windsurfing Tuesday in the discipline's final race in the games.
Alabau came into the medals race with a 14-point lead and preserved it by finishing first.
Windsurfing
got the heave-ho from the lineup for the 2016 Rio Olympics in a vote in
May, replaced by kiteboarding. The International RS:X Class Association
filed a legal challenge last week against the International Sailing
Federation.
Tuuli Petaja of Finland jumped from third place
overall to take the silver medal thanks to a fourth-place finish in the
medals race. Poland’s Zofia Noceti-Klepacka jumped from fifth overall to
take the bronze by finishing third.
