Blair Tuke

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Blair Tuke medal table
Blair Tuke (2018)
Blair Tuke (2018)

sailing

New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
Olympic games
silver London 2012 49er
gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 49er
World championships
silver Perth 2011 49er
silver Zadar 2012 49er
gold Marseille 2013 49er
gold Santander 2014 49er
gold Buenos Aires 2015 49er
gold Clearwater 2016 49er
gold Auckland 2019 49er
gold Geelong 2020 49er

Blair Tuke , MNZM (born July 25, 1989 in Kawakawa ) is a New Zealand sailor .

successes

Blair Tuke took part in two Olympic Games . In 2012 in London he started with Peter Burling in the 49er dinghy . The two finished the regatta behind the Australian and in front of the Danish crew in second place, which they won the silver medal. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he and Peter Burling managed to outperform the 2012 Games. This time they finished first with a larger margin ahead of the Australians Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen and received the gold medal as Olympic champions . At the opening ceremony of the Games, he and Burling were the flag bearers of the New Zealand delegation.

At world championships , he and Peter Burling won the title six times with the 49er dinghy between 2013 and 2020. In 2011 and 2012 the two took second place. He won the America's Cup with Team New Zealand in 2017 .

In 2015 the World Sailing Association named Tuke and Burling as World Sailor of the Year . At the end of 2016, like Burling, he was named a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his Olympic success .

Web links

Commons : Blair Tuke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. New Year Honors List 2017. In: dpmc.govt.nz. December 31, 2016, accessed February 15, 2020 .