BARCELONA, Spain – Having already clinched one of six berths in match racing competition, Bangor native Kevin Mahaney’s U.S. Soling crew elected not to race in Saturday’s final Olympic fleet regatta.

Mahaney and crewmates Jim Brady of Annapolis, Md., and Doug Kern of Austin, Texas, will begin match racing in a round-robin format Monday at 7:30 a.m. EDT along with five other nations. The top three finishers in match racing win medals.

“We’ve still got a long way to go for gold,” said Mahaney, referring to the match racing. This is the first time in Olympic yachting history match racing will determine the medalist in the Soling class.

The U.S. Soling, under Mahaney’s skippering, recorded fleet racing finishes of first, seventh, third, first, and third out of 24 nations represented for a total of 11.4 points.

In other yachting action, Americans Randy Smyth and Keith Notary ran out of time for a chance at a gold medal Sunday.

Unlike others, they will get another chance for victory in the Tornado class.

Smyth, of Mary Esther, Fla. and Notary, of Merritt Island, Fla., were in the overall lead. On Sunday, they were ahead in the seventh and last race of the division at all the intermediate points.

However, the light winds throughout the day slowed them and they failed to finish in the allotted time.

Only one boat has to cross the finish line within four hours for the race to count. Smyth and Notary were about 15 minutes away from the finish when time ran out.

“We’ll wait another day. We’re patient,” Smyth said. “We would have won today if they put up the shortened course.”

New Zealand gained two golds, while host Spain added to its gold count in other classes Sunday.

Mike Gebhardt of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., a six-time world champion, gained a silver after entering the 10th and final race of the men’s windsurfing class with the overall lead.

France’s Franck David needed to win and Gebhardt come in third. That’s what happened as David led from start to finish, giving David the gold and Gebhardt the silver. Australia’s Lars Klippich got the bronze.

“I can’t be disappointed,” Gebhardt said. “I was beaten. If anybody is going to, I want it to be Franck.”

New Zealand’s Bruce Kendall came in second in Sunday’s race.

“I couldn’t count on just myself,” David said. “I had to win, but that wasn’t enough. As soon as I was in front, I kept looking around to see where the American was.”

New Zealand’s Barbara Kendall won the gold in the women’s windsurfing event ahead of China’s Zhang Xiaodong and Dorien Devries of the Netherlands.

Lanee Butler of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., moved up to fifth by winning two of the final three races.

New Zealand’s Roderick Davis and Donald Cowie won the silver medal in the star class Sunday, a day after the U.S. team clinched the gold. The bronze medal went to Canadians D. Ross MacDonald and Eric Jespersen.

Mark Reynolds of San Diego and Hal Haenel of Los Angeles clinched the gold in the sixth of seven races and did not compete Sunday.

Spaniards Luis Doreste and Domingo Manrique won the Flying Dutchman class, with Paul Foerster of Heath, Texas, and Stephen Bourdow of New Orleans, La., in second. Jorgen and Jens Bojsen of Denmark finished third.

Spain clinched another gold in the Finn class although the final race is scheduled on Monday. Jose Vander Ploeg secured the victory with a win in Sunday’s race to give him an insurmountable lead over Brian Ledbetter of San Diego, 21.70 to 43.0.

The Spanish sailor can sit out the race Sunday and still have only 33.40 points, lower than Ledbetter even if the American wins.

In other divisions, Julia Trotman of Syosset, N.Y., dropped to third in the women’s Europe class after a premature start disqualified her from the sixth race. She still has a shot at the gold in the seventh race Monday.

Kevin Mahaney of Bangor, Maine, Jim Brady of Annapolis, Md., and Doug Kern of Austin, Texas, led in the Soling division following the fleet races. The top six teams enter round-robin races to determine the gold medalist.

J.J. Isler of La Jolla, Calif., and Pam Healy of Port Richmond, Calif., were second in the woman’s 470. Morgan Resser of Miami and Kevin Burnham of Coral Gables, Fla., were runners-up in the men’s 470 class with one day left.