Emirates Team New Zealand

Emirates Team New Zealand, current holders of the Americas Cup following a successful campaign in Bermuda in 2017 to win it from the USA and then an equally successful defence in 2021 to retain the Cup. The Team had its beginnings in the New Zealand Challenge team which contested the 1987 Americas Cup event, sailed at Fremantle, Western Australia. It has missed only one event since the 2010 Deed of Gift Challenge between Alinghi and Oracle at Valencia. That makes it the longest-lived team in recent Americas Cup history. The team has won the Cup twice at San Diego in 1995, beating Stars and Stripes 5-0 and at Auckland in 2000, beating Luna Rossa 5-0. In 1995, few New Zealanders would have been unaware of the Americas Cup regatta in San Diego and the public watched live television enthralled as their team clinically dismembered first the challengers and then the defender. In a flawless display, an efficient and focused team gave New Zealand a great sense of national pride. Led b...