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Louis Vuitton instead sponsored the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series and Louis Vuitton Trophy. After Oracle Racing won the America's Cup for the Golden Gate Yacht Club in the 2010 Deed-of-Gift race against Alinghi, Louis Vuitton again sponsored the challenger series for the 34th America's Cup which was held in 2013 on the San Francisco Bay. [5]
The 2024 Louis Vuitton Cup is a sailing competition held to determine the official challenger in the 2024 America's Cup yachting competition to challenge the defender Emirates Team New Zealand. The races were held from August 29 to October 7, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain .
The 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup held in Valencia, Spain, from April 16 to June 6 was the event used to select the challenger for the 2007 America's Cup. Eleven potential challengers competed in the competition which consisted of two round robins , two semi-finals and a final.
Stars & Stripes 87 was a clear contender from the start of the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup regatta, winning 11 of 12 races in the first round robin, including the only round robin victory of any boat over Kiwi Magic. The second round was a period of concern.
In the finals, they defeated Luna Rossa with a whitewash victory of 5–0, winning the Louis Vuitton Cup and the right to challenge Alinghi for the America's Cup. On 3 July 2007, Emirates Team New Zealand lost their final race to Alinghi bringing Alinghi's race wins to 5, successfully defending the 32nd America's cup.
Going into the Louis Vuitton Finals (13-23 January), Kiwi Magic was the favorite. She was clearly a fast boat in both light and heavy air, had beaten Stars and Stripes 87 twice, and had won an incredible thirty-seven of thirty-eight match races.
It was always the Louis Vuitton Cup.” Unfortunately, there are no women participating as sailors at this year’s race. In the competition’s history, Dawn Riley sailed aboard the American boat ...
The 5th Louis Vuitton Cup was held in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2000. The winner, Prada Challenge , went on to challenge for the 2000 America's Cup . It was the first time in the competition's history that there would not be an American challenger or defender.