Andrew Murdoch (NZL) looks for the Committee Boat end of the start line with 12 sec to go in the start of the 2008 Olympics Medal Race in the Laser. Richard Gladwell
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In this sequence, Murdoch started at the Committee end of the line, then tacked for the seawall at Qingdao, to escape the tide, initially he was buried, however when he came off the wall he was ahead of most of the fleet, and picked up the remainder after another couple of tacks.
The wind lightened as the fleet neared the top mark, and Murdoch rounded with a good lead. Behind him the match race between series leader Paul Goodison (SWE) and Rasmus Mygren (SWE) had resulted in the Swede being sailed off the course and out of contention for any medal.
In the end it was the Slovenian sailor Vasilij Zbogar who took the Silver medal and Dieho Romero (ITA) the bronze. Andrew Murdoch was in fifth place six points away from a medal.
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