[7] Burling married long time partner, Lucinda Nelson, on the weekend of the 4th March 2023 in the Coromandel Peninsula, on New Zealand's North Island.

[9][10] He started sailing at the age of six in the Welcome Bay estuary near his home in Tauranga, in an old wooden Optimist called Jellytip.

[citation needed] At age 13, he was 2nd in the New Zealand P class Nationals (under 17), to Timaru local hero Thomas Olds.

[20] He won the NZ Starling nationals (under 19) – (winning both the Fleet racing and Matchracing titles) twice – at age 14[21] and 15.

[22] At the age of fifteen Burling and Carl Evans won the 2006 420 class Worlds in the Canary Islands – the youngest sailors ever to do so.

[23] At 16 years old Burling successfully defended his 420 title to win the 420 class Worlds sailed in Auckland.

[citation needed] Emirates Team New Zealand won the 2024 America's Cup in Barcelona on 20 October 2024.

Peter Burling became only the second helmsman to win three America's Cups in consecutive contests after Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1930, 1934 & 1937).

Burling has won 22 America's cup races, beating the record of 17 previously held by Jimmy Spithill.

Burling was the winning skipper and helmsman for Emirates Team New Zealand's 2021 America's cup campaign.

[25][26] 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.

[27][28] He helmed for Team Korea's White Tiger Challenge, in the 2011–13 America's Cup World Series in San Francisco in 2012.

[34] Burling and Tuke won silver at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics - missing the gold medal on countback.

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 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 Hyères 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)[88] 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)[89] 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)[90][91] 2013 1st 49er European Championships (Aarhus, Denmark)[92] 2013 1st – Australian Moth Nationals 2013 2nd China cup (Tactician for Team Vatti) 2013 1st 49er Sail Auckland (with Blair Tuke) 2012 1st China cup (Tactician for Team Vatti) 2010 1st 49er North American Championships (with Blair Tuke) 2009 Completed 120 nm Coastal Classic course in 49er (Auckland to Russell) with Blair Tuke[93][94] 2009 New Zealand National Youth Matchracing Champion (with Blair Tuke and Scott Burling) 2008 2nd New Zealand Keelboat Nationals[95] 2008 New Zealand Champion in Elliot 5.9 (helm) 2006 New Zealand Champion in Starling (age 15) 2006 New Zealand Champion in 420 (age 15) 2006 1st 420 Junior Europeans (age 15)[96] 2005 New Zealand Champion in Starling (age 14) 2005 New Zealand Champion in 420 (age 14) 2005 New Zealand Champion in Elliot 5.9 (helm)(age 14) 2004 2nd NZ P class Nationals (age 13) 2003 1st NZ Optimist Nationals (age 12) 2002 2nd NZ Optimist Nationals (age 11)