Tauranga sailors Luke Stevenson and Sam Bullock have finished the 420 World Championship at Riva Del Garda in seventh place out of 122 boats in the open fleet.

Their result helped New Zealand take the team trophy with Alex Malone and Bianca Backer-Barbarich winning the women's section, first of 80 boats; and Frankie Lardies and Finn Drummond coming second in the open fleet.
Luke and Sam qualified fourteenth for gold fleet out of the 122 boats. The bottom 61 boats then made up the silver fleet.
Each day they improved their position into the top 10 and were sixth overall going into the last race (sixteenth of the contest) – unfortunately the boat just behind them won the final race.
Frankie Lardies and Finn Drummond were second overall, New Zealand's top finish, and Luke and Sam were New Zeland's next best and top of the New Zealand youth boats.