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The EDHEC Sailing Cup (Course Croisière EDHEC in French) is the leading student-sporting event in Europe, and the world’s biggest intercollegiate offshore regatta.〔http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2014/08/13/biggest-intercollegiate-offshore-regatta-world/〕 Three French students willing to broaden the sport of sailing created it in 1969. It gathers 3,000 participants coming from 23 countries (USA, Australia, Spain, UK, Poland…) and from more than 160 universities in the world (HEC Paris, University of Oxford, University of Chicago, ESADE…). Throughout the years the EDHEC Sailing Cup has grown in diversity. Today the EDHEC Sailing Cup is composed of four different trophies: the Sea Trophy (the regatta), the Land Trophy (a Multi-sport raid), the Sand Trophy (a beach soccer, beach rugby and beach volley competition) and the Air Trophy (a Kitesurfing and Windsurfing contest).〔http://www.federvela.it/files/EDHEC%20Sailing%20Cup%20presentation.pdf〕 == History == Three students, Jean-Luc Picot, Francis Prat and Pierre Jouanet decided to organize a student regatta. It took place from May 1 to May 4 in 1969 at Dunkerque. For its first edition the former EDHEC Business School Cup gathered 14 crews, and was won by a Dutch boat. Older than the Vendée Globe, the Volvo Ocean Race and other sailing event, the EDHEC Sailing Cup was a precursor in the high-level competitions. Seven years after its creation the regatta reached the symbolic number of 100 crews from 10 nationalities and took is actual name, the “EDHEC Sailing Cup”. 329 boats attended the 18th edition, a record. For the 19th edition the organizing team decided to build a Village to welcome participants, partners and activities in one place. The same year was also created the “Chaîne Avitaillement”, an open air free supermarket. For its 23rd edition, 20 international boats participated in the regatta including the first African boat, from Tunisia, and boats from USA or Brazil. In 1994 was created the Land Trophy. It was at the beginning created as a substitution for the Sea Trophy. It was a great success and it became a fully Trophy. In 1998 an Israeli-Palestinian participated in the regatta, the “Peace Boat.”〔http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001129/112944e.pdf〕 6,000 participants attend to the EDHEC Sailing Cup in Brest. In 1999, the EDHEC Sailing Cup became the leading sporting student event in Europe. In order to give a more sporting dimension to the event, the Sand Trophy was created in 2006. In 2010 was organized for the first time the Orange Port of call, a coastal race that gathers the participants, at night in an area away from the Village under a marquee. In 2013, the EDHEC Sailing Cup and the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta, organized by Storm Trysail Foundation and Larchmont Yacht Club, created a partnership, which offers to the winner of each regatta the whole cost of the participation in the other one.〔http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/exchange-program〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edhec Cup」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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