The 8th Louis Vuitton Cup was held during July and August 2013, in San Francisco, California, United States of America. The three contenders were Artemis Racing (Sweden), Emirates Team New Zealand (New Zealand), and Luna Rossa Challenge (Italy). After a preliminary round robin to determine seeding, Artemis Racing was eliminated in the semi-final round by Luna Rossa Challenge by four races to none. In the final, Emirates Team New Zealand beat Luna Rossa Challenge by seven races to one, and went on to challenge Oracle Team USA for the

2013 America's Cup The 34th America's Cup was a series of yacht races held in San Francisco Bay on September 2013. The series was contested between the defender Oracle Team USA representing the Golden Gate Yacht Club, and the challenger Emirates Team New Zealand r ...

The teams

Twelve yacht clubs applied to challenge the America's Cup before the deadline, though their names were not originally disclosed. They included: *

Club Nautico di Roma Club Nautico di Roma is a private yacht club located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in November 2006. It promotes and organizes various water-sports related events, in sailing, motor boating, fishing and scuba diving. History Club Nautico di Rom ...

(the original challenger of record, withdrew) *

Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet Royal Swedish Yacht Club ( sv, Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet, KSSS), is the largest and oldest yacht club in Sweden and one of the five oldest in the world, formed 15 May 1830. KSSS is also the oldest yacht club in Continental Europe. Ac ...

* Circolo della Vela Sicilia * Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron * Aleph Yacht Club (withdrew) * Yacht Club de France (withdrew) * Měi Fán Yacht Club * Real Club Náutico de Valencia * Club Canottieri Roggero di Lauria (failed eligibility) * Sail Korea Yacht Club On August 2, 2012, the America's Cup Event Authority announced that, following withdrawals or failure to meet the eligibility criteria, only four challenging teams would compete: Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet's Artemis Racing, Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's Team New Zealand, Circolo della Vela Sicilia's Luna Rossa Challenge and Sail Korea Yacht Club's

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In March, 2013, Team Korea withdrew, leaving three challengers. Shown in the order in which they applied, they were:

Artemis Racing (SWE)

The Challenger of Record, Artemis Racing represented the Royal Swedish Yacht Club and was led by skipper

Iain Percy Iain Bryden Percy (born 21 March 1976) is an English sailor and double Olympic champion for Great Britain. Olympics Percy competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he won a gold medal in the Finn class.

, helmsman Loick Peyron and America's Cup veteran Paul Cayard as tactician and CEO. The crew included Rodney Ardern, Magnus Augustson,

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, Curtis Blewett, Chris Brittle, Sean Clarkson, Juliean Cressant, Rodney Daniel, Andy Fethers, Thierry Fouchier, John Gimson, Kevin Hall, Phil Jameson, Iain Jensen, Santiago Lange, Andrew McLean, Craig Monk, Nathan Outteridge, Troy Tindill and coach Andrew Palfrey. Tom Schnackenberg was in charge of performance & design.

Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL)

Led by Grant Dalton and skippered by Dean Barker, Team New Zealand won the America's Cup in

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and

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and the Louis Vuitton Cup in

and

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Luna Rossa Challenge (ITA)

Funded by Patrizio Bertelli, the Italian team previously won the Louis Vuitton Cup in

and were runners-up in

. The crew included skipper Massimiliano Sirena, helmsman Paul Campbell-James,

Chris Draper Chris Draper (born 20 March 1978) is a British sailor who has won multiple World and European championships and a bronze medal at the Sailing at the 2004 Olympic competing in the mixed 49er. He has been a winner of the Extreme Sailing Serie ...

, Giulio Giovanella, Benjamin Durham, Pierluigi De Felice, Dave Carr,

Giles Scott Giles Lyndon Scott (born 23 June 1987) is a British competitive sailor and four-time Finn Gold Cup winner and two-time Olympic gold medallist who won the gold medal for Team GB in the Finn Class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro wh ...

, Nick Hutton, Matteo Plazzi, Alister Richardson,

Simone de Mari Simone de Mari is an Italian sailor who has competed in multiple America's Cups. He sailed in the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup as a grinder for Prada Challenge. De Mari fell overboard during one of the races, but was recovered and Prada Challenge went ...

, Emanuele Marino, Manuel Modena, Marco Montis, Wade Morgan, Francesco Bruni and Olympian

Xabier Fernández Xabier Fernández Gaztañaga (born 19 October 1976 in Ibarra, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country) is a Spanish sailor and olympic champion. Fernandez won a gold medal in the '' 49er class'' with Iker Martínez at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

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was the team's sailing co-ordinator and Umberto Panerai was a trainer.

Round Robins

The three yachts were scheduled to race ten times each, match-racing each competitor five times on a seven-leg course, with the winner of the Round Robins advancing to the final and the other two advancing into the semi-final. On May 9, 2013, Team Artemis Racing's main boat capsized in strong winds, resulting in the death of crewmember Andrew Simpson. Artemis Racing forfeited its ten Round Robin races, entering the competition in the semi-finals stage. Per rules 60.5 and 44.1c, the Artemis boat was deemed to have abandoned each race after the event had run for 10 minutes. While the Emirates and Luna Rossa boats earned black flag victories against Artemis, both boats chose to run a five-leg course for some (Luna Rossa) or all (Emirates, including one seven-leg) of these black flag races. Emirates and Luna Rossa only raced nine times, each forfeiting their final race against the missing Artemis as it could not change the final first-second standings of the Round Robins. Emirates Team New Zealand won the Round Robins with nine points (4 race wins, 5 forfeit wins) to Luna Rossa Challenge's four points (4 forfeit wins) and Artemis Racing's zero points.

Semi-finals

The semi-finals were a best-of-seven event held over the seven-leg course and won 4-nil by Luna Rossa Challenge over Artemis Racing.

Finals

The finals were a best-of-thirteen event held over the five-leg course won by Team New Zealand over Luna Rossa.

References

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