Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre win 470 World Championship title in Japan
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Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre won four of the twelve races at the 2019 470 World Championship regatta
Britain's Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre won World Championship gold in the Enoshima Yacht Harbour that will host the Tokyo 2020 Olympic regatta.
They finished seventh in the 470 medal race, one place ahead of Japan's Ai Kondo Yoshida and Miho Yoshioka, to pip the 2018 champions to the title.
It is a second world title for Rio 2016 champion Mills, who had already qualified for Tokyo 2020 with McIntyre.
Welsh sailor Mills teamed up with England's McIntyre in January 2017.
The duo won world silver later that year, before winning bronze last year to qualify for next year's Olympics.
Mills won her Olympic title and silver medal with Saskia Clark, who retired from Olympic sailing after the Rio Games.
She will become the most successful female Olympic sailor if she wins gold in Tokyo.