SASKIA Clark is still massively disappointed that her and partner Hannah Mills did not win gold a year ago today.

The duo, who are defending their World Championship crown in La Rochelle, France, this week, bagged silver in the women’s 470 class and Clark feels she and Hannah really lost the gold rather than anything else.

The Weymouth sailor said: “You live and learn, and we learned there was a bit of a hole in our training to do with the match racing side of things and that’s something we’ll work on.

“However, it’s was really cool that I was part of Team GB’s medal success. It’s quite funny how the performance side feels quite separate and different to the Olympics side.

“Obviously there were nerves and excitement going into the Games, but given the circumstances of our late partnership, I think Hannah and I felt reasonably calm and ready for racing. We were one of the last to start, and we’d rehearsed that.

“Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy and And-rew Simpson won their medals the day after we started so that whole dynamic is quite different in an event build- up. We were really ready to go racing.

“On our second to last day of racing when we’d secured a silver medal and we knew we were going into the medal race on equal points with gold, we had a real sense of relief that we hadn’t choked, that we had delivered and everything we’d planned for we had got to that point.

“The goal was to go into the medal race with a chance of winning gold, so to have the silver medal secured and the gold very much on was a real sense of relief that day.

“I’m still massively disappointed we didn’t manage to turn silver into gold and that it wasn’t a classic medal race.”