Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have won a convincing victory in the 49er class in the Sail Sydney Regatta, beating former world champs Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen.

Peter Burling from Tauranga and Blair Tuke are the 2010 Sail Sydney winners.

'We're only the second ever to beat them (Outteridge/Jensen) so it's pretty cool,” says Blair Tuke of Auckland.
Peter and Blair are delighted with their win over the Aussie sailors who have won all but one of 11 regattas sailed since joining forces.
The four day Sydney regatta finished on Thursday, and is a prelude to the opening event in the ISAF World Sailing Cup series for 2010-2011 starting in Melbourne on Monday.
In Sydney, Peter and Blair raced in 12 races over four days. The New Zealanders won six, and had done enough to secure a podium finish without sailing the final race.

They did sail, finishing with a win and 11 points clear of the Aussie hot shots.
The next best placed of the kiwis sailing in the Olympic classes in Sydney was Josh Junior who won bronze in the Laser, the largest fleet at the regatta.

The laser event was won by 2010 ISAF Sailor of the Year Tom Slingsby, with Jeemin Ha of Korea second.
New Zealand Youth Worlds silver medallists, Alexandra Maloney and Tauranga's Sam Bullock were first in a small fleet in the 29erXX event.
Paralympic sailors Tim Dempsey and Jan Apel finished second among seven boats in the SKUD18 double-handed mixed crew event.
There will be a larger contingent of New Zealand sailors starting in the six day Sail Melbourne regatta on Monday.

2010 Sail Sydney

New Zealand's Final Results

49er (14 boats)
1st Peter Burling and Blair Tuke
5th Marcus Hansen and Aaron Hume-Merry

Laser (48 boats)
3rd Josh Junior

29er XX (5 boats)
1st Alexandra Maloney and Sam Bullock

Laser Radial (22 boats)
10th Rachel Basevi

SKUD18 (7 boats)
2nd Tim Dempsey and Jan Apel