Australia's Olympic sailing hopefuls couldn't qualify for Rio with wins at the Melbourne world cup - but they won anyway.
Ashley Stoddart finished second in the final race of the Laser Radial to win overall and set herself up for a run into the world championships on Mexico in April.
"I think I managed the racing well, my speed was good and my decision making was good," Stoddart told AAP on Sunday.
Women's 470 sailors Carrie Smith and Jaime Ryan won their final race to secure the title, ahead of Jaime's sister Sasha and her partner Aurora Paterson.
"We learned a few lessons that we were hoping to, so we got to keep improving, that was our main thing," Smith said.
A photo finish for second place saw Australians Tess Lloyd and Caitlin Elks sneak home to win the 49erFX title ahead of a New Zealand team.
A tactical move to keep their spinnaker up paid off as Lloyd and Elks caught the Kiwis on the line to get the overall win.
"I sort of thought we may have just got it, but I wasn't going to get too excited," Lloyd said.
Windsurfer Joanna Sterling had already wrapped up the RS:X title on Saturday, but still took out the final race on Sunday to confirm her win.
All four of the winning women's teams have already qualified Australia for spots at the Olympics, but they have to perform well at various upcoming world championships to secure those spots for themselves.
Alexander and Patrick Conway won every race to take out the men's 470, while Oliver Tweddell won the Finn on countback.
New Zealand pair Logan Beck and Jack Simpson won the 49er, Singapore's Colin Cheng won the Laser and Germany's Florian Gruber won the Formula Kite.
The Melbourne sailing world cup was held on St Kilda beach for the first time, with the event locked in at the new venue until 2017.
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