America's Cup 2013 - Teams: Challengers and Defender



USA 2013 Defender	SWE Challenger of Record	NZL Challenger Candidate	ITA Challenger Candidate

©2012 Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA	©2012 Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA	©2012 CupInfo.com	©2012 Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA
Oracle Team USA	Artemis Racing	Emirates Team New Zealand	Luna Rossa Challenge 2013
Golden Gate Yacht Club	Royal Swedish Yacht Club	Royal NZ Yacht Squadron	Circolo della Vela Sicilia


Skipper: James Spithill	CEO: Paul Cayard	Skipper: Dean Barker	Skipper: Massimiliano "Max" Sirena

Team Principal: Larry Ellison	Chairman: Torben Törnqvist	Team CEO: Grant Dalton	Team Principal: Patrizio Bertelli
Photos(2):©2012 Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA	Photos:©2012 ACEA/Gilles Martin-Raget (top), Sander van Der Borch/Artemis Racing (bottom)	Photos(2):©2012 Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA	Photos(2):©2012 Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA
Oracle defeated the Swiss Alinghi Team 2-0 in 2010 to win the 33rd America's Cup Match. The team was a challenger candidate twice previously, losing in the Louis Vuitton Cup Final in 2003, and in the LVC Semi-Final in 2007.	Representing Kungliga Svenska Segel Sällskapet (Royal Swedish Yacht Club), this is the first America's Cup campaign for Artemis Racing, though their staff includes many Cup veterans as sailors and designers.	Team New Zealand won the America's Cup in 1995 as a challenger, and defended it in 2000 before losing to the Swiss Alinghi in 2003. ETNZ won the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2007, before losing 5-2, again to Alinghi, in the 32nd America's Cup Match.	Luna Rossa won the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2000, before losing 0-5 to TNZ in the America's Cup Match. Luna Rossa was a challenger candidate in 2003 and 2007 (losing 0-5 in the 2007 LVC Final against ETNZ).
Two AC72's Expected: First boat launched Aug 30, 2012; Second boat expected April 23.	Two AC72's Expected: First sail Nov 13, 2012 Second boat expected April	Two AC72's Expected: First boat launched July 21, 2012 Second boat launched Feb 4	One AC72 Expected: First boat launched Oct 26, 2012

ACWS Entries: 2 Oracle Team USA Spithill Oracle Team USA Coutts	ACWS Entries: 2 Artemis Red Artemis White	ACWS Entries: 1	ACWS Entries: 2 Luna Rossa Piranha Luna Rossa Swordfish

Twitter: @ORACLERacing	Twitter: @ArtemisRacing	Twitter: @EmiratesTeamNZ
Web: Oracle Team USA	Web: Team Site	Web: Team Site and Blog	Web: Team Site



KOR Withdrawn	CHN World Series Competitor	FRA World Series Competitor	GBR World Series Competitor

©2012 Jürg Kaufmann/go4image.com	©2012 Jürg Kaufmann/go4image.com	©2012 Jürg Kaufmann/go4image.com	©2012 Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA
Team Korea	China Team	Energy Team	Ben Ainslie Racing

Sail Korea YC	Mei Fan Yacht Club	Yacht Club de France	Royal Cornwall YC

Skipper: Peter Burling	Skippers: Fred Le Peutrec and Phil Robertson	Skipper: Loïck Peyron	Skipper: Ben Ainslie
			Photo:©2012 Lloyd Image/BAR
CEO: Kim Dong-Young	CEO: Chaoyong Wang	CEO: Bruno Peyron, left, with brother Loïck.
Photos:©2012 Guilain Grenier/Oracle(top) ©2012 Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA	Photos(3): ©2012 Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA	Photos(2): ©2012 Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA
Team Korea, also referred to as the White Tiger Challenge, was the country's first America's Cup team, the fourth confirmed official challenger candidate for the 2013 regatta. Peter Burling was added as Skipper in September 2012. Plans for one AC72 were announced, but though design and materials were said to be in hand, there was no construction reported underway. In March 2013, the team confirmed they have withdrawn from 2013 America's Cup activities, including the ACWS.	China Team was not announced as a paid-up Challenger at the August 1, 2012 deadline, but was still at ACWS San Francisco in August and October as an America's Cup World Series competitor. China's first America's Cup entry was in 2007.	Energy Team was the first America's Cup challenge entry from the Peyron brothers, two of the most accomplished sailors in the world at building and racing large oceangoing multihulls. Energy announced August 1, 2012, that they would not be able to field a challenging yacht for 2013, but will remain in the America's Cup World Series with an eye on becoming a full challenger for the following Defense of the Cup. Loïck will also join Artemis Racing for the 2013 America's Cup.	J.P. Morgan/Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) joined the ACWS circuit in San Francisco in August 2012, fresh off winning his fourth Olympic Gold Medal. BAR is not a challenger for the 34th America's Cup in 2013, but hopes to secure sponsorship for the 35th Defense of the America's Cup.

ACWS Entries: 0	ACWS Entries: 1	ACWS Entries: 1	ACWS Entries: 1

Twitter: @acteamkorea	Twitter: @ChinaTeam1	Twitter: @energyteamFR	Twitter: @BARofficial
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