Bart Lambriex and Pim van Vugt, overtaken at the top by Germany’s Jakob Meggendorfer and Andreas Spranger yesterday, took first place on a tiebreak in the 49er racing, while Annemiek Bekkering and Annette Duetz concluded a convincing victory in the 49erFX.

Lambriex and van Vugt, who had trailed by two points going into today’s double-scoring medal race, crossed the line third, for a score of six, one position ahead of Meggendorger and Spranger, who scored eight, putting both teams level on 41 points - and with the higher-placed medal-race standing, victory went to the Dutch.

Lucas Rual and Emile Amoros, who are also heading to Tokyo 2020 this summer, earned third place overall on 44 points after adding a final four points after finishing second on the day.

The medal race was won by their French compatriots Kévin Fischer and Noé Delpech, who finished fourth overall on 55.

"It feels great - it was a very nice regatta, pretty close with some French teams and the Germans up until the end, so it was really good racing and we’re very happy with the win," Lambriex told World Sailing.

Commenting on the medal race, Van Vugt explained, "We had a little incident at the start but that was in our favour so that was good and we still did what we wanted to do.

"From then on we tried to stay ahead of the guys that came closer and closer.

"We managed to do that and it was all fine.

"We’re really happy with the result."

Bekkering and Duetz, the 2018 world champions, carried an 11-point lead into the 49erFX medal race, which they proceeded to win in the tricky light winds to finish 22 points clear of second place.

A seventh-place finish was enough to earn silver for Germany’s Marla Bergmann and Hanna Wille and they were joined on the podium by team mates Maru Scheel and Freya Feilcke, who crossed the finish line fourth ahead of their closest rivals to move into the top three for bronze.

Speaking after the podium ceremony, Duetz said: "It’s very nice, especially back home here in Medemblik, with family and friends out here to support us and cheer for us.

"It was a very exciting medal race; it was light breeze, onshore but still very unstable, and a big pressure difference on the racecourse, so also a big shift in the ranking.

"We were very happy to come away with a good result."

On heir own preparations for this summer’s Olympic Games, Duetz added: "We’ll have a few days off, then next week we’ll train in Scheveningen so we’ll have a bit more racing there.

"We’ll do a final training camp before we head to Japan in July."

Today’s medal races concluded what was the first World Cup Series event since January 2020.

The next event in this year’s series is set to be announced in the coming weeks.

The sailing competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is due to start on July 25.