page_title: Peter Burling (sailor)
section_title: Olympic classes
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Burling (sailor) / Adult career / Olympic classes
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter Burling (right) and long time team mate Blair Tuke in Kerikeri, 2016.
context_page_description: Peter Burling MNZM is the 2017 America's Cup champion helmsman, and an Olympic gold and silver medallist.
  He is a founder of Live Ocean - a registered New Zealand charity which supports and invests in promising marine science, innovation, technology and marine conservation projects. www.liveocean.com
  He was named as male World Sailor of the Year at the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards in 2017. He and his 49er partner Blair Tuke also won the award in 2015, and were finalists in 2014 and 2016.
  Burling has won six 49er World Championships, two 420 class World Championships and the 2015 Moth World Championships.
  Burling sailed as watch captain and helmsman with Team Brunel on the Round-the-World 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race finishing 3rd overall in the closest finish in the history of the race, with the top 3 boats going into the final leg effectively tied on points and finishing just 25 minutes apart. Team Brunel won 3 of the final 5 legs, including the leg from Auckland to Brazil, which the organisers say was the hardest leg in the history of the race.
  Together with Blair Tuke, he is joint CEO of the New Zealand SailGP team.
context_section_description: Burling with Blair Tuke were Olympic flag bearers for New Zealand at the 2016 Olympics.  They were just the 4th New Zealand flagbearers to win a gold medal at the same Olympics.
  At age 25, Burling was the youngest ever 49er Olympic gold medal skipper. He and Tuke won the 2016 Olympics with two races to spare and by an overall 43 point margin – winning by the most points of any sailing class in the Olympics in over 50 years. 
  At the 2012 London Olympics, Burling (then aged 21) was the youngest 49er sailor.  He won the silver medal as helm in the 49er class alongside Blair Tuke.His silver medal was, jointly, New Zealand's 100th Olympic medal.
  Burling and Tuke are the first sailors to win six 49er class World Championships (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020).  They  won all 28 of the major regattas in the 49er between the London Olympics (2012) and the Rio Olympics (2016). The only regatta they did not win in this time was when they finished 3rd in a short 2 day regatta prior to the Olympics. In all the major regattas (Olympics, Worlds, Europeans, World Cup) in 2015 and 2016 they led into the medal races by over 20 points – effectively winning the regattas before the medal race.
  Burling finished 11th in the 470 class at the 2008 Olympics. At 17 years old (still at school), he was the youngest sailor ever to represent New Zealand at the Olympic Games. Burling was the youngest sailing competitor at the 2008 Olympics and the youngest member of the 2008 New Zealand Olympic team.
caption: Burling (right) and Blair Tuke wearing their Olympic gold medals in 2016
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