America's Cup factfile
Alinghi (SUI - defender)
Yacht club: Societe Nautique de Geneve
Established: 2000
Boats: SUI 91 and SUI 100
Designed by: Rolf Vrolijk
Built by: Decision Boatyard
Launch dates: May 2006 (SUI 91), March 2007 (SUI 100)
Sailing team: 36
Number of campaigns amongst the crew: 103
Nationalities: 18
Team principal: Ernesto Bertarelli
Team skipper: Brad Butterworth
America's Cup record: Won in 2003
Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL - challenger)
Yacht club: Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron
Established: 1993
Boats: NZL 84 and NZL 92
Designed by: ETNZ Design Team
Built by: Cookson Yachts
Launch dates: December 2005 (NZL 84), October 2006 (NZL 92)
Sailing team: 25
Number of campaigns amongst the crew: 53
Nationalities: 4
Team principal: Grant Dalton
Team skipper: Dean Barker
Louis Vuitton performance: Top ranked team after the round robin stage with 17 wins out of 20. Beat Desafio Espanol in the semi-final 5-2. Beat Luna Rossa 5-0 in the final. Won 27 of their 32 races
America's Cup record: Won in 1995, 2000
Head-to-head
2003 America's Cup: Alinghi beat Team New Zealand 5-0
10 matches races since September 2004: Team New Zealand 6 Alinghi 4
Overall win records
Emirates Team New Zealand have won 90 out of 107 matches - 84 percent success rate
Alinghi have won 61 out of 74 - 82 percent
Since the creation of the Louis Vuitton Cup as a challenger selection series for the America's Cup in 1983, the winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup has beaten the defender on four out of six occasions. Last time, Alinghi was one of them.
(China Daily 06/22/2007 page23)
