Giles Scott claims Finn World Championship gold by narrowest of margins
Postma needed Scott to finish at least third in order win overall, so during the third leg he let Jonas Hoegh Christensen (DEN) catch up, putting Scott second on points.
Scott remained in third place until the last leg, when he sped past Hoegh Christensen and secured second place in the Medal Race, enough to put him on 30 points overall win the championship and the Finn Gold Cup.
“I came here looking to win,” Scott said. “I felt like I needed to prove myself. I made things difficult for myself at the start but I managed to seek out some decent waves and it was an emotional finish, I nearly ended up in tears.”
Postma was first over the line, cheered on by a big crowd of supporters on the breakwater but he had to settle for the silver medal with 31 points overall.
“I wanted to win here.” Postma said. “Giles did a better job, he won this week and congrats to him.”
Former world champion, Ed Wright (GBR), took the bronze medal, finishing fifth in the Medal Race taking him to 35 points overall.
The Finn championships was thrown wide open with the disqualification Saturday of Ben Ainslie, the triple gold medallist from Great Britain who had been at the top of the overall standings. An international jury disqualified Ainslie from both of Saturday's races for gross misconduct. As the disqualifications could not be discarded from his point score, Ainslie ended up out of the medal race and finished the Regatta in 11th place.