America's Cup 2000

Auckland, New Zealand

Prior Events

It was magic in 1995 - Black Magic - as Team New Zealand defeated Dennis Conner's Young America to take the America's Cup in an awesome 5-0 victory off the coast of San Diego, Califonia. Sailing legend Sir Peter Blake led the team with the up-and-coming Russell Coutts as skipper.

America's Cup 2000 - First successful defence outside of America

Auckland became the centre of attention for the build up to the 30th America's Cup as the potential challengers trained and raced in the area for the right to challenge Team New Zealand for the Auld Mug. Italy's Prada Challenge won the challenger series and took on Team New Zealand in the hopes of taking the cup to Europe. But the New Zealander's, again skippered by Russel Coutts, were too strong and won the series 5-0 to become only the second nation in the cup's 149 year history to successfully defend the America's Cup.