Since then it’s been back to the States, on to New Zealand, then Switzerland (although it was sailed in Valencia in Spain), then the USA again and finally back to New Zealand where it now resides.īritain has yet to win the trophy that started life with a race around the Isle of Wight, but now Ben Ainslie – the four-time Olympic gold medallist – has combined with the founder, Chairman and major shareholder of INEOS, Jim Ratcliffe to form INEOS Team UK and to finally win it back. In 1983 the Australians won an epic match 4-3 to take the Cup back to Perth in Western Australia. The Cup became legendary for the longest winning streak in sport – it took 132 years to beat the Americans for the first time, and it wasn’t the British who did it. No one could have known just how famous it would subsequently become as sailing’s premier international trophy. A few years later it was renamed the America’s Cup and gifted again this time as the prize for a challenge competition open to yacht clubs of all nations. The prize was won by a yacht called America and left British shores for the New York Yacht Club. It was bought by Henry Paget, Marquess of Anglesey and in 1851 given to the Royal Yacht Squadron as the winner’s prize for a race around the Isle of Wight. America’s Cup began life in the shop window of famous London jewellers an elaborate silver ewer crafted in 1848 by Garrards.
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