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Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia – 26 November 2011: While the skippers are battling it out for supremacy on the water at the Monsoon Cup, a group of local and international sportsmen of a different sort are fighting it out for the honours too.
In conjunction with the Monsoon Cup, multiple side events are taking place and today it’s all about the action on the water with a National Kayak Competition, National Long Boat Competition and Traditional Boat Competition. With over 520 participants coming from both overseas and locally, the waters of Kuala Terengganu will be teeming with action.
Responsible for organising the events, Dzulkafli Abbas said: “We’ve got people coming from all around to take place in these events during the Monsoon Cup. We could not be more delighted to be involved in the event as it’s really exciting for the participants to be out on the water alongside the world’s greatest sailors.”
A big part of the Monsoon Cup is the side events which aim to get locals involved in the week. Traditionally the monsoon season is a hard time for the locals however by having the final event of the World Match Racing Tour in town, it attracts people and brings in revenue to the area. The side events are a huge attraction and, alongside the Monsoon Cup itself, help ensure the hotels in the region are at 100% capacity throughout the event.
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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.