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Friday, 28 May 2021, 6:54 am Josh Junior knows how significant it is to have earned selection for the Tokyo Olympics in the Finn class. The 31-year-old was selected ahead of close friend and training partner Andy Maloney for the one position available to New Zealand in the heavyweight dinghy on the back of his consistently high results at pinnacle events. In 2019 he became the first Kiwi to win the Finn Gold Cup (world championships) since its introduction in 1956 and he followed that with bro...

ROBERT DEAVES Josh Junior is the only New Zealander to win the Finn Gold Cup, claiming the golden goblet at the last championships held in late 2019. Josh Junior admits he’s under-prepared for his defence of the Finn Gold Cup that has huge ramifications to the New Zealand yachting team for the Tokyo Olympics. Snaring the title again in Portugal over the next week would be huge for Junior, but simply beating his good friend and America’s Cup team mate Andy Maloney might be more important. ...

Sailing: New Zealands Olympic 470 team take out European title 7 May, 2021 08:15 PM 3 minutes to read New Zealand Olympians gathered at The Cloud with 100 days to go before Tokyo 2021. Video / Jed Bradley New Zealand Olympians gathered at The Cloud with 100 days to go before Tokyo 2021. Video / Jed Bradley NZ Herald New Zealand sailors Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox have fired a warning shot to their Tokyo Olympics rivals after taking out the European championships in the 470 class in their f...

Stuff Sports 8 April, 2021, 5:37 pm Josh Junior celebrates with coach Andrew Murdoch after becoming the first Kiwi to win the Finn Gold Cup. Picture: STUFF SPORTS. Good mates and fierce rivals, premier New Zealand sailors Josh Junior and Andy Maloney have made a pact they hope will see both get to the Tokyo Olympics in differing roles. Fresh off their America’s Cup success with Team New Zealand, the pair are about to head to Bermuda to help debut New Zealand’s involvement in the SailGP glo...

Americas Cup skipper Peter Burling comes home for Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club centennial 4 Apr, 2021 07:00 PM 7 minutes to read Celebrations at the viaduct after Team NZ wins Americas Cup. The Tauranga yachting club where hometown hero Peter Burling learned the ropes celebrated 100 years of sailing this weekend. Burling spoke to the Bay of Plenty Times about the influence the club and Tauranga Harbour has had on his life. It was a humble heros welcome for Americas Cup-winning sk...

Sam Meech will contest the Laser national championships at the Worser Bay Boating Club. It might come as a surprise to learn Sam Meech, one of the worlds best Laser sailors, has never won a national Laser title in this country. The 29-year-old collected bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics but doesnt often get the chance to line up at the nationals because of international commitments. He was on track to do it at the Manly Sailing Club in 2019 but missed the final day (when leading) to attend And...

Staffan Persson set to take part in national laser champs, after launching a rocket into space. Staffan Persson will casually launch a rocket into space on Saturday night, before trying to find his inner warp speed at next weeks Laser national championships in Wellington. Persson, who hails from Stockholm in Sweden, has been in the country since mid-December (he got out of managed isolation on New Years Eve) to oversee the launch of a small communications satellite being launched by Rocket Lab...