Battling Murphy bags a bronze medal

A TENSE final race, less than half an hour in length, decided the Laser Radial class at the Sail for Gold Regatta at Weymouth on Saturday with Ireland’s Annalise Murphy claiming a bronze medal.

The Dun Laoghaire single-hander’s medal crowned a year of progression — she has won half the races of her last two events and missed selection for the medal race once in the last year.

Saturday’s ten finalists were an anxious bunch with the race committee forced to make a general recall as the bunch pushed over the line early.