Английская Википедия:2003 Louis Vuitton Cup

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6th Louis Vuitton Cup
Date	1 October 2002 – 19 January 2003
Winner	Шаблон:Flagicon Alinghi
Location	Auckland, New Zealand

The 6th Louis Vuitton Cup was held in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2003. The winner, Alinghi, went on to challenge for and win the 2003 America's Cup.

The teams

The Yacht Club Punta Ala was the challenger of record.

Club	Team	Skipper	Yachts
Шаблон:Flagicon Société Nautique de Genève	Alinghi	Шаблон:Flagicon Russell Coutts	SUI-64
Шаблон:Flagicon Royal Ocean Racing Club	GBR Challenge	Шаблон:Flagicon Ian Walker	GBR-70
Шаблон:Flagicon Union Nationale Pour La Course au Large	Le Defi Areva	Шаблон:Flagicon Luc Pillot	FRA-69
Шаблон:Flagicon Reale Yacht Club Canottieri Savoia	Mascalzone Latino	Шаблон:Flagicon Vincenzo Onorato	ITA-72
Шаблон:Flagicon Seattle Yacht Club	OneWorld	Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Gilmour	USA-65 & USA-67
Шаблон:Flagicon Golden Gate Yacht Club	Oracle BMW Racing	Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Holmberg Шаблон:Flagicon Chris Dickson	USA-76
Шаблон:Flagicon Yacht Club Punta Ala	Prada Challenge	Шаблон:Flagicon Francesco de Angelis	ITA-74
Шаблон:Flagicon New York Yacht Club	Team Dennis Conner	Шаблон:Flagicon Dennis Conner	USA-66 & USA-77
Шаблон:Flagicon Gamla Stans Yacht Sallskap	Victory Challenge	Шаблон:Flagicon Mats Johansson	SWE-63 & SWE-73

Alinghi

Founded by Swiss businessman Ernesto Bertarelli, Alinghi featured Russell Coutts and Brad Butterworth who had both joined from Team New Zealand. Jochen Schümann was also involved in the team.

GBR Challenge

Put together by Peter Harrison and New Zealander David Barnes, the team was skippered by Ian Walker and included Jim Turner. GBR 70 was known as Wight Lightning while GBR 78 was called Wight Magic.

Le Defi Areva

Despite 2000 skipper Bertrand Pacé joining Team New Zealand, Le Defi returned in 2003 with Luc Pillot skippering FRA 79.

Mascalzone Latino

Headed by shipping magnate Vincenzo Onorato, Mascalzone Latino featured an all-Italian crew. The syndicate was only established in 2001 and Paolo Cian served as helmsman and the crew included Flavio Favini, Shannon Falcone, Giuseppe Brizzi, Davide Scarpa, and Pierluigi De Felice. and Francesco De vita

OneWorld

Part-financed by Microsoft mogul Paul Allen, OneWorld was based in Seattle. Skippered by Peter Gilmour, the team was docked one Louis Vuitton point by an arbitration panel for being in possession of design secrets from another team.

The design team included Laurie Davidson, Bruce Nelson and Phil Kaiko and the sailing team included 10 Olympic medallists, three round-the-world winners, 60 world championship titles in various classes, and 16 America's Cup winners.

The crew included Kevin Shoebridge as a trimmer, Mark Mendelblatt as backup helmsman, Kevin Hall, Rick Dodson, David Endean, Grant Spanhake, Peter Waymouth, Matt Mason, Joey Newton, James Spithill, Jeremy Scantlebury, Alan Smith, Andy Fethers, Andrew Taylor, Scott Crawford, and Olympians Craig Monk, Don Cowie, Ben Ainslie, Kelvin Harrap, Charles and Jonathan McKee.

Oracle BMW Racing

Founded by Larry Ellison who bought the assets of 2000 syndicate AmericaOne. The team was skippered by Peter Holmberg and also featured Paul Cayard, Matt Welling, John Cutler, Phil Jameson, Brad Webb, Brian MacInnes, Cameron Dunn, and Chris Dickson. USA 71 and USA 76 were designed by Bruce Farr.

Roy Heiner sailed the trial boat.

Prada Challenge

Founded by Patrizio Bertelli, Prada's crew included members of the 2000 Young America syndicate. They were again skippered by Francesco de Angelis and Rod Davis, Pietro D'Alì, Thomas Burnham, Hartwell Jordan, Piero Romeo, Gavin Brady, Francesco Bruni, Andrew Hemmings, Steven Erickson, Matteo Plazzi, Gilberto Nobili, Massimo Gherarducci, Alberto Barovier, and Torben Grael were in the crew.

Team Dennis Conner

Team Dennis Conner's USA 77 suffered a massive blow when it sank off the Californian coast in July before the Cup began. The helmsman was Ken Read and the team included Terry Hutchinson.

Victory Challenge

Principal backer Jan Stenbeck died of a heart attack in August 2002. This was Sweden's first America's Cup bid since 1992 and the crew included Magnus Holmberg, Lars Linger, Stefan Rahm, Mikkel Røssberg, Jesper Bank, Mats Johansson, Roger Hall and Olympian Magnus Augustson.

Their boats were designed by Germán Frers and Cole (Skip) Lissiman was their coach.

Round robin

Team name	Races	Won	RR1 Pts.	RR2 Pts.	Total Pts.	Ranking
Шаблон:Flagicon Alinghi	16	13	7	6	13	1
Шаблон:Flagicon BMWOracle	16	12	5	7	12	2
Шаблон:Flagicon OneWorld	16	13	8	5	12*	3
Шаблон:Flagicon Prada Challenge	16	11	4	7	11	4
Шаблон:Flagicon Victory Challenge	16	7	3	4	7	5
Шаблон:Flagicon GBR Challenge	16	7	4	3	7	6
Шаблон:Flagicon Stars & Stripes	16	6	5	1	6	7
Шаблон:Flagicon Le Defi Areva	16	2	1	1	2	8
Шаблон:Flagicon Mascalzone Latino	16	1	0	1	1	9

* OneWorld was docked one race win.

External links

• Ultimatesail.com