Team New Zealand beats Italy s Luna Rossa 7-3 to retain America s Cup
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The Team New Zealand crew celebrate after defeating Luna Rossa in race 10.
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Team New Zealand has retained the America’s Cup, beating Italian challenger Luna Rossa 7-3 in the 36th match for sailing’s oldest trophy.
Key points:
New Zealand previously won the America s Cup in 1995, 2000 and 2017
Italy is yet to win the event
The defender came into the sixth day of racing off the coast of Auckland today at match point, with a 6-3 lead in the best-of-13 race series.
Team New Zealand won the 10th race by 46 seconds in a shifty north-easterly breeze to complete its defence of the famous Auld Mug.
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Race 6
Team NZ win by 1m 41s, level series at 3-3
Finish - NZ take the race and level the series at 3-3.
NZ skipper Glenn Ashby states: The regatta starts tomorrow.
Luna Rossa finally finish 1m 41s behind - the margin blew out a bit over that last leg.
Sixth leg - Team NZ reaching 37 knots downwind. Luna Rossa finally reach the top gate, 1m 22s behind.
That s 1.2km in real terms.
Luna Rossa have sailing problem as Team NZ wins race 4 and levels series.
For a brief moment on Friday afternoon the America’s Cup hopes of Peter Burling and Team New Zealand threatened to flutter away in the light breeze from the north. At 2-1 down in the first-to-7 contest for the Auld Mug, entering the final of two races on a glistening summer’s day in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, prospects looked ever so ominous for the cup defenders after they had just been clinically dismantled by the razor-sharp Italian entry, Luna Rossa. But Burling and his staunch crew aboard Te Rehutai never panicked. They never blinked. Even as the pressure must have threatened to suffocate them.
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