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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 bronze at this month's Finn Gold Cup in Portugal. Maloney won the world title in Portugal, not only ill...

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. They are in one of the most hotly contested positions for any Kiwi athletes hoping to make the Games...

Sailing: New Zealand's 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 first event in 18 months. The pair finished 10th at the 2016 Olympics but this result has boosted th...

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 global foiling catamaran league. But bubbling in the back of their minds is an imminent return to the s...

America's 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 America's 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 hero's welcome for America's Cup-winning skipper Peter Burling this weekend, as he returned to the Tauranga yachting club where he learned ...