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MARSEILLE, France — Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands has won the gold medal in the women's dinghy at the Paris Olympics, marking the fourth straight Games in which she has reached the podium. Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom took the silver medal. Line Flem Hoest of Norway got bronze. In the men's dinghy race, Australia's Matt Wearn won gold for the second straight Olympics. Pavlos Kontides of Cyprus won silver while Stefano Peschiera of Peru took bronze. Kontides's medal doubles his country's medal count after he won Cyprus' first Olympic medal ever in 2012.
