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2020 1st 49er World Championships – Geelong, Australia (sailing with Blair Tuke)

2020 2nd 49er Oceanias (sailing with Blair Tuke)

2019 1st 49er World Championships – Auckland, New Zealand (sailing with Blair Tuke)

2019 3rd 49er Oceanias (sailing with Blair Tuke)

2019 7th Princessa Sofia Regatta (sailing with Blair Tuke)

2019 3rd World Cup Regatta Genoa (sailing with Blair Tuke)

2019 1st 49er Europeans (sailing with Blair Tuke)

2019 1st 49er Olympic test event (sailing with Blair Tuke)

He was named as male World Sailor of the Year at the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards in 2017. He and his 49er partner Blair Tuke also won the award in 2015, and were finalists in 2014 and 2016.

Burling sailed as watch captain and helmsman with Team Brunel on the Round-the-World 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race finishing 3rd overall in the closest finish in the history of the race, with the top 3 boats going into the final leg effectively tied on points and finishing just 25 minutes apart. Team Brunel won 3 of the final 5 legs, including the leg from Auckland to Brazil, which the organisers say was the hardest leg in the history of the race.

Burling was the helmsman for Emirates Team New Zealand's 2017 America's Cup campaign, which was raced in Bermuda. On 27 June 2017, he became the youngest winning helmsman in the history of the Americas Cup, when at age 26 he and his team won the 35th competition for the cup.

2017–2018 3rd Volvo Ocean race sailing on Team Brunel.

2017 3rd Rolex Fastnet race (Line honours) (sailing on Nikita)

2017 Rolex Fastnet race 3rd (Line honours) (sailing on Nikita)

2017 2nd – 2017 – 2nd Int Moth World Championships – Lake Garda, Italy

2017 1st (Emirates Team New Zealand) Americas Cup. – Helm

2017 1st (Emirates Team New Zealand) Louis Vuitton America’s Cup Challenger Playoffs Finals – Helm

2017 1st Swan River Match Cup (Perth) – helm, sailing with Blair Tuke, Glenn Ashby, Josh Junior.

Burling with Blair Tuke were Olympic flag bearers for New Zealand at the 2016 Olympics. They were just the 4th New Zealand flagbearers to win a gold medal at the same Olympics.

At age 25, Burling was the youngest ever 49er Olympic gold medal skipper. He and Tuke won the 2016 Olympics with two races to spare and by an overall 43 point margin – winning by the most points of any sailing class in the Olympics in over 50 years.

2016 3rd 49er Rio de Janeiro International Sailing week

2016 1st 49er Kieler Woche regatta, Germany (with Blair Tuke)

2016 1st 49er Sailing World Cup Hyeres regatta, France (with Blair Tuke)

2016 1st 49er European Championships – Barcelona, Spain (with Blair Tuke)

2016 1st 49er World Championships – Clearwater, Florida, USA (with Blair Tuke)

2016 1st America's Cup World Series regatta, New York

2016 3rd America's Cup World Series regatta, Oman

2016 4th America's Cup World Series regatta, Chicago

2016 5th America's Cup World Series regatta, Toulon, France

2016 4th America's Cup World Series regatta, Japan

Burling has won six 49er World Championships, two 420 class World Championships and the 2015 Moth World Championships.

Burling was the 2015 International Moth World Champion. He was 2nd in the 2017 Moth Worlds.

2015–2016 3rd overall in 2015–2016 America's Cup World Series.

2015 1st 49er World Championships – Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Blair Tuke)

2015 1st 49er South American Champs, Buenos Aires (with Blair Tuke)

2015 1st 49er Olympic Test Event, Rio de Janeiro (with Blair Tuke)(Aug 2015)

2015 1st 49er Rio de Janeiro International sailing week (with Blair Tuke)(Aug 2015)

2015 1st 49er Europeans (Porto, Portugal) (with Blair Tuke)

2015 1st 49er ISAF Sailing World Cup Weymouth regatta (Weymouth, England) (with Blair Tuke)

2015 1st 49er ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres regatta (Hyeres, France) (with Blair Tuke)

2015 1st 49er Princess Sofia Regatta (Palma, Mallorca) (with Blair Tuke)

2015 2nd America's Cup World Series Bermuda (Oct 2015)

2015 1st America's Cup World Series Gothenburg (Aug 2015)

2015 2nd America's Cup World Series Portsmouth

2014 4th Auckland-to-Fiji yacht race (sailing on Wired)

Burling finished 3rd in the 2014 A class catamaran Worlds.

2014 1st 49er Intergalactic Championships, Rio de Janeiro (with Blair Tuke)

2014 1st 49er South American Championships, Rio de Janeiro (with Blair Tuke)

2014 1st 49er World Championships – Santander, Spain (with Blair Tuke)

2014 1st 49er Rio International Regatta, Rio de Janeiro (with Blair Tuke)

2014 1st 49er European Championships, Helsinki (with Blair Tuke)

2014 1st 49er Hyeres World cup regatta (with Blair Tuke)

2014 1st 49er Mallorca World cup regatta (with Blair Tuke)

2014 3rd Extreme Sailing series St Petersburg, Russia (helming for Emirates Team New Zealand)

2014 3rd Extreme Sailing series Qingdao, China (helming for Emirates Team New Zealand)

2014 4th Auckland-to-Fiji yacht race (sailing on Wired)

2014 1st A class NZ Nationals (Pre-worlds, 65 International competitors, his first competition in A class)

At age 13, he was 2nd to Thomas Olds in the New Zealand P class Nationals (under 17). He won the NZ Starling nationals (under 19) – (winning both the Fleet racing and Matchracing titles) twice – at age 14 and 15.

Burling skippered the New Zealand Sailing Team entry to victory in the inaugural Red Bull Youth America's Cup in San Francisco in September 2013.

Burling and Tuke are the first sailors to win six 49er class World Championships (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020). They won all 28 of the major regattas in the 49er between the London Olympics (2012) and the Rio Olympics (2016). The only regatta they did not win in this time was when they finished 3rd in a short 2 day regatta prior to the Olympics. In all the major regattas (Olympics, Worlds, Europeans, World Cup) in 2015 and 2016 they led into the medal races by over 20 points – effectively winning the regattas before the medal race.

2013 14th (Line honours) Sydney-to-Hobart race (sailing on Pretty Fly 3)

2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Unbeaten in major 49er regattas worldwide (27 49er regatta victories since London Olympics).

2013 Skipper of the winning boat in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup.

Helm for Emirates Team New Zealand – overall leader of 2015 America's Cup World Series.

2013 14th (Line Honours) Sydney-to-Hobart race sailing on Pretty Fly 3

2013 1st – Red Bull Youth America's Cup (skipper/ helm for NZL sailing team)

2013 1st 49er European Championships (Aarhus, Denmark)

At the 2012 London Olympics, Burling (then aged 21) was the youngest 49er sailor. He won the silver medal as helm in the 49er class alongside Blair Tuke.His silver medal was, jointly, New Zealand's 100th Olympic medal.

Burling helmed for Team Korea's White Tiger Challenge, in the 2011–13 America's Cup World Series in San Francisco in 2012.

2010 1st 49er North American Championships (with Blair Tuke)

2009 Completed 120 nm Coastal Classic course in 49er (Auckland to Russell) with Blair Tuke

2009 New Zealand National Youth Matchracing Champion (with Blair Tuke and Scott Burling)

Burling finished 11th in the 470 class at the 2008 Olympics. At 17 years old (still at school), he was the youngest sailor ever to represent New Zealand at the Olympic Games. Burling was the youngest sailing competitor at the 2008 Olympics and the youngest member of the 2008 New Zealand Olympic team.

At 16 years old Burling successfully defended his 420 title to win the 420 Class Worlds sailed in Auckland. He also won the under-18 world championship. Burling finished 6th in the 2007 470 Europeans – his first international 470 regatta and had his best world ranking in the 470 of 5th in 2008.

At the age of fifteen Burling (with Carl Evans) won the 2006 420 Class Worlds in the Canary Islands – the youngest sailors ever to do so. They also won the under-16 and under-18 world championships.

2006 New Zealand Champion in Elliot 5.9 (helm) (age 15)

2005 New Zealand Champion in Elliot 5.9 (helm)(age 14)

In 2003 at the age of 12, Burling won the New Zealand Optimist Nationals and competed in the 2003 Optimist Worlds in the Canary Islands where he finished 40th. He stopped sailing the optimist at age 12.

Burling sailed in his first Optimist nationals at age 9. At the age of 11 in 2002, Burling finished 2nd in the New Zealand Optimist Nationals (under-16). He competed in the 2002 Optimist World Championships in Texas at the age of 11.

Peter Burling MNZM (born 1 January 1991, New Zealand) is the 2017 America's Cup champion helmsman, and an Olympic gold (49er sailing, 2016) and silver (49er sailing, 2012) medallist.

Burling was born in 1991 in Tauranga. His education began at Welcome Bay School and Tauranga Intermediate School.