Woy Woy sailor Liesl Tesch will add a gold medal to her collection, winning the Skud 18 class at the Paralympics with a race to spare.
London marks Tesch’s sixth Paralympic Games.
She has previously won silver and bronze medals in wheelchair basketball, but this will be her first gold.
Tesch and partner Daniel Fitzgibbon, who have only been sailing together since the beginning of last year, are leading the field by six points.
It comes after a tough week for Tesch, having lost her mother to cancer on day one of racing.
“I knew that mum wasn’t well at all but I thought she’d make it through the week so it was a real shock to get the news after day one here,” said Tesch. “She was definitely out there with us, today the sun was shining and the breeze was great, mum was certainly looking down on us and pushing us along.
