The Australian Sailing Team’s Skud 18 crew of Daniel Fitzgibbon and Rachael Cox has won the Bronze medal at the 2010 IFDS World Championship in The Netherlands and in doing so has qualified Australia for the 2012 London Paralympic Games.
 
Fitzgibbon and Cox were the star performers on the final day of the regatta winning both Skud 18 races.

Great Britain won Gold and the USA Silver.
 
“Rachael and I had a really good day overall with two race wins and good breeze, we’re very happy with how we went today,” Fitzgibbon said. 

“We were a bit disappointed with how we started the regatta but to finish the way we did means that what we are working on is going well for us.” 

“The best thing about today is that we qualified Australia for the 2012 London Paralympic Games in the two person keel boat class so it looks like Australia is going to London!”
 
The majority of the Australian team will now head to Italy for recovery before the final round of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Weymouth, England, at the beginning of August.