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Peter Blake
Inducted in 2003
From the time in 1971 when Peter Blake won the line honours in the inaugural Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro race, a year hardly went by without him adding to his sailing honours board.
Sporting Category:
  • Yachting
Races were there to be won; challenges there to be overcome: from the round-world race to Fastnet to the Sydney-Hobart to a round-Australia race.

For all those achievements though, Sir Peter Blake's crowning feat may have been organising and leading the successful New Zealand campaign to win the America's Cup in 1995 - and inspiring a nation to don red socks.

His contributions to New Zealand yachting - and to world yachting - were unique.

Sporting Spotlight

Eight, 1971-72

(1971 - 1972)

The success of the New Zealand rowing eight at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the same eight that had won the European championship the year before, was one of those wins that seem to transcend sport.
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