Ireland's Matt McGovern and Ryan Seaton finished their Olympic campaign 10th overall after taking ninth in the 49er Medal Race on Thursday evening.
They extended their stay in Rio thanks to a fantastic Race 12 victory that lifted them up to eighth overall after 19th and 20th-placed finishes left them outside the top ten.
They realistically had no chance of threatening the medals today but their ninth wraps up what's been a really positive campaign as they enjoyed two wins on the water in the preliminaries as well as a second.
New Zealand's Peter Burling and Blair Tuke took the gold ahead of Australia (Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen) and Germany (Erik Heil, Thomas Ploessel).
Ireland have performed strongly on the waters of Rio.
On Tuesday Annalise Murphy won silver following a superb performance in the Laser Radial medal race, where the Dubliner finished in fifth place.
That came on the back of Skibbereen brothers Gary and Paul O’Donovan snatch a superb silver of their own in the lightweight double-sculls final.
#IRL's 49ers finish 9th in a second Medal Race of the week for #TeamIreland. 10th overall. Quite the week on the 🇧🇷🌊 pic.twitter.com/tbZRvokpbq
— Team Ireland (@olympiccouncil) August 18, 2016
