New Zealand beat Great Britain to win America's Cup

New Zealand retained the America's Cup by beating Great Britain successful the 37th variation of the event.

Ben Ainslie's Ineos Britannia squad were 6-2 down going into Saturday's racing and needed to triumph contention 9 to enactment successful the best-of-13 bid successful Barcelona.

However, contempt immoderate unit from the British boat, Emirates Team New Zealand secured triumph by 37 seconds to instrumentality an unassailable 7-2 lead.

New Zealand, who won the contention successful 2017 and 2021, person go the archetypal squad to assistance the Auld Mug connected 3 consecutive occasions since the USA (1987-1992).

Great Britain, who person ne'er won the trophy successful the competition's 173-year history, were appearing successful their archetypal last since 1964.

"Firstly, I've got to accidental a immense good done to Team New Zealand," said British skipper Ainslie.

"What an astonishing run and team. In my view, they are the champion squad ever successful the America's Cup.

"To our team, I conscionable can't accidental capable acknowledgment to everyone for each the effort they've enactment successful implicit the years to get america this far.

"We had our moments successful the finals but, astatine the extremity of the day, the amended squad won."

He added: "This isn't going to beryllium the extremity of the travel for us. We acceptable retired 10 years agone to triumph the America's Cup [and] we're getting person each time.

"The instrumentality is to support going and get it location adjacent time."