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Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia – 26 November, 2011: The Monsoon Cup has this year helped the local hospital - Sultanah Nur Zahirah in Kuala Terengganu through organising a blood donation drive at the Monsoon Cup Race Village to provide blood for its patients and replenish the reserve of its blood bank.
Interested parties were required to register themselves and have a blood test conducted to determine their blood grouping. Following the test, a doctor was on hand to check the candidate’s blood pressure and counsel the potential donor on whether the person was fit or not to donate blood. Adults with a body weight of 45kg and below, and those above the age of 60 were deemed not eligible for donation.
Eligible blood donors were required to lie down for 10 minutes to facilitate the donation process and were given a drink afterwards to replenish their energy.
The hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Suhaimi Yusof, was hopeful that the blood donation drive would become an annual programme at the Monsoon Cup. He said, “Our target is to get around 50 to 100 people to donate blood. We are confident that our regular blood donors will come to support the event. And hopefully the organising staff of the Monsoon Cup will also lend their support.”
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The King Edward VII Gold Cup is the oldest match-racing trophy in the world for competition involving one-design yachts. It was given at the Tri-Centenary Regatta at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1907 by King Edward VII in commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the first permanent settlement in America. C. Sherman Hoyt won the regatta and was the first to accept the now historic cup.
After three decades of holding the Cup, Mr. Hoyt gave it to the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and proposed a regular one-on-one match-race series in 6-Meter yachts. In his letter he expressed the propriety of “my returning a British Royal trophy to the custody of your club, with its long record of clean sportsmanship and keenly contested races between your Bermuda yachts and ours of Long Island Sound, and elsewhere...” The first winner of the Cup in its new format was the celebrated Briggs Cunningham, who was also the first skipper to win the America’s Cup in a 12-Meter.
In the post-war years, the Club placed the Cup in competition in 1956 for match-racing in yachts of the International One Design Class. Bert Darrell had the honor of being first to defend the Cup in this class and won it a total of six times.
By winning his seventh championship in 2004, Russell Coutts surpassed Darrell to become the event’s all-time winner.
Through the years Bermuda has won the Cup 21 times, the United States 17 times, New Zealand 10 times, Australia 5 times, the United Kingdom three times, and in 2002 Denmark claimed the King Edward VII Gold Cup for the first time.