Monday, August 18, 2008 - 4:00 PM

Sailors Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page have won Australia's 10th gold medal of the Beijing Games with victory in the men's 470 class today.

Wilmot and Page went into the race with the gold virtually guaranteed, needing only to complete the course as they entered sitting in first place on 42 points, 22 ahead of nearest rival the Netherlands.

The pair held such an advantage after their 10-race opening series that they only had to make a genuine attempt to start the medal race to be assured of gold under racing rules.

They won the title in style, though, taking out the medal race.

Britain's Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield won silver and France's Nicolas Charbonnier and Olivier Bausset took bronze.

Wilmot, 28, and Page, 36, announced earlier this year they would retire from 470 dinghy sailing after the Beijing Games.

Fellow Australians Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson are poised to take gold when the women's event concludes later today.