Yachting: European success for Evans and Burling

New Zealand sailors Carl Evans and Peter Burling have won the European 420 championship in Portugal overnight (NZ time).

Having dominated the regatta, they needed only one top-five result from the last three races to secure the title.

This duly came when Evans and Burling, the reigning world champions in the class, won the penultimate race to finish on 24 points, comfortably clear of the silver medallists, Israel, on 61.

- NZPA