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Global MBA Trophy announces competitor list

14 January 2024

Global MBA Trophy 2023 ©Nikos Alevromytis

London Business School, organisers of the 18th Global MBA Trophy in Piraeus, Athens, Greece in April 2024 have announced a preliminary list of participants.

The event website is Globalmbatrophy.com

Early Bird sign- up ends on 31 January. Also, after that date, the regatta will accept second entries from individual schools for division A spots.

In the Platu 25 Class, Division A, competing for the Global MBA Trophy and ranking in the MBA Sailing League, the following teams have signed up:

Cambridge Judge
IE
Imperial
London Business School
Oxford Said
POLIMI GSoM
WHU

Reichman win in Kiel

4 September 2023

The team from Reichman University in Israel won the 2023 Alumni Business Cup regatta. The event was hosted by the Kieler Yacht Club, and organised by WHU sailing club, taking place in Germany for the first time on the Baltic Sea.

The ABC is the longest running regatta in the MBA Sailing League. 7 teams from 6 international business schools competed on the exciting J70 boats owned by the German Sailing Premier League (Segelbundesliga).

Great weather and wind conditions enabled 14 inshore races and 1 costal race in the Kieler Förde. The Reichman team won 7 inshore races and the coastal race, to narrowly beat Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, winning 5 races)into second with the host WHU team in third.

ABC Regatta – competitors announced

5 August 2023

The Kellogg/ WHU business school team, organisers of the 2023 Alumni Business Cup in the German sailing headquarters of Kiel, have announced the participating teams. There will be at least 8 boats on the start line from the folowing schools:

2x Oxford SAID

2x WHU

Bucerius

Cambridge

Reichman (TLV)

RSM

The organisers are currently recruiting crew for a mixed team for those business schools unable to deploy a full crew of their own.

The regatta takes place on 24th – 27th August. Crews of 5 will compete in J70s.

Event website: https://www.abcuphamburg.de/

Warwick, with Kellogg-WHU, claims its first victory in the league

3 October 2017

21272688_764980960351263_5940324226430673323_o A combined Warwick and Kellogg-WHU team claimed first place at the RSM regatta in Porto, Portugal. Warwick have not won a regatta until now in the history of the league and WHU’s last victory dates back to the same event in 2012.

This was the first edition of the RSM regatta in its new roaming format: future editions will take place in various locations across Europe, rather than in the Netherlands. It was sailed in First 7.5 sports boats.

The win was down to consistent racing over the seven race series. The crew scoring first and second places in six races and a third in the seventh. Meanwhile, second place Skolkovo’s three first places were marred by an OCS and a DSQ for missing a gate. MIP and Chicago were level on points with MIP coming home with third, having won a race. Continue reading “Warwick, with Kellogg-WHU, claims its first victory in the league”