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The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. [1] [2] [3] America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one from the yacht club that currently holds the trophy (known as the defender) and the other from the yacht club that is challenging for the cup (the challenger).
In June 2016, for the first time in history, an America's Cup race included fresh water sailing, when preliminary races were held on Lake Michigan and based in Chicago, Illinois. [63] [64] Emirates Team New Zealand won the 2017 Louis Vuitton Cup and then challenged the defender, Oracle Team USA. New Zealand won the America's Cup with a score of ...
1974 Herbert Pell Cup: 1977 Newport Alan Bond, Australia: Sun City Yacht Club 1977 Herbert Pell Cup: 1980: Newport Alan Bond, Australia: Royal Perth Yacht Club 1980 Herbert Pell Cup: 1983: Newport Alan Bond, Australia II: Royal Perth Yacht Club 1983 Louis Vuitton Cup: 1987: Fremantle: Sail America, Stars & Stripes 87: San Diego Yacht Club: 1987 ...
The 2024 America's Cup was the 37th staging of the America's Cup yacht race. It was contested from 12 October 2024 as a first-to-seven-wins match-race series in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, between Taihoro, representing the defender, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron; [2] and Britannia, representing the Royal Yacht Squadron of the United Kingdom, which won the Louis Vuitton Challenger ...
New Zealand is trying to win the America’s Cup for a third straight time and fifth overall. The British have never won it in its 173-year history and are in their first final in six decades .
Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli won the first ever Women’s America’s Cup after beating Britain’s Athena Pathway on Saturday. ... The 25 best cheap or free things to do in New Orleans ...
The America's Cup races have been contested using many historical classes in the past. For the 2021 series Team ENTZ developed a new class of 75-foot (23-meter) foiling monohulls named the America's Cup 75 or AC75. [40] [41] The boats were required to be "constructed in country". [42] Teams were allowed to build two boats each. [12]