What was thatyachting race was called the Hundred-Guinea Cup until a team from the U.S. won the race in 1851?

Question

What was thatyachting race was called the Hundred-Guinea Cup until a team from the U.S. won the race in 1851?

Answer 1

The Schooner America won the Hundred Guinea Cup on August 22, 1851. The Crew donated their trophy to the New York Yacht Club under the condition that the cup "be preserved as a perpetual Challenge Cup for friendly competition between foreign countries," and the America's Cup race was born. From 1870, the next time the race was held, until 1980, American yachts won the America's Cup race 24 times without a loss (the race was not always an annual event). The Australian yacht Australia II finally took the cup when it won the race in 1983.

Answer 2

It's called the America's Cup, which was named not after the country but the actual schooner that won the first race.

Answer 3

the cup was one of 3-6 cups made as trophies.  it was bought by a british nobleman, and donated for the prize of the royal yacht squadron's 1851 regatta, and was known as the royal yacht squadron cup.  then it was known as the hundred guinea cup, and now the america's cup (for the american schooner that won it)