SDA Bocconi’s crew won the POLIMI GSoM regatta in Cala Dei Sardi, Sardinia, in May, with a second place and a first place in the gold fleet on finals day. They pipped first round leaders Imperial into second place, Imperial scored a third and a first. RSM rounded out the podium.
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POLIMI GSoM sit at the top of the MBA Sailing League after two regattas, but with only 4 points separating first and fifth place, everything is still to play for in 2025.
The POLIMI team have 5 points scoring 3rd at the Global MBA Trophy in Greece and 2nd in the POLIMI regatta in Sardinia. Just behind are SDA Bocconi on 6 points, with a 2nd and a 4th, then LBS with 7 points, IE with 8 and Imperial with 9 points.
Next up is the RSM regatta in Malta in July.
| School | LBS GMT, Piraeus | POLIMI GSoM Sardinia | TOTAL | Position | Number of Regattas | change | |
| POLIMI GSoM | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | +2 | |
| SDA Bocconi | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | = | |
| LBS | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | +1 | |
| IE | 7 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | +2 | |
| Imperial | 1 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | -4 | |
| WHU/Kellogg | 5 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 1 | -1 | |
| Oxford | 9 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 2 | +1 | |
| RSM | 8 | 8 | 16 | 8 | 1 | -1 | |
| Insead | 10 | 8 | 18 | 9 | 1 | = | |
| Tuck | 11 | 8 | 19 | 10 | 1 | = | |
Imperial college Business School lifted the Global MBA Trophy aloft in Piraeus, Greece after two days of hard- fought racing. They beat 2024’s winners, SDA Bocconi into second place and 2023’s winners , POLIMI GSoM into third, scoring two wins, two second places and a third place. Racing was in Platu 25 sports boats. The event was presented in partnership with Mastercard by London Business School Alumni Sailing Club and the Yacht Club of Greece.
Continue reading “Imperial win the Global MBA Trophy 2025”The crew from SDA Bocconi, won the 8- race RSM Regatta on the 19/20 July 2024 in Malta. They won three of the races in the regatta, placing 2nd in two and 3rd in two more. They pipped the regatta leaders, IE in the final race, when IE scored a 5th place, after having won 4 of teh preceeding races. The remaining race was won by the “Caviar” team, while Imperial filled up the podium.
Six teams were racing SB20 sportsboats in the picturesque waters off Valletta, Malta. The regatta was organised by the RSM sailing club and hosted by the Royal Malta Yacht Club. Participants were hosted at a nearby hotel and enjoyed Maltese hospitality each evening.
The full results are displayed below
London Business School won the POLIMI regatta held at Cala dei Sardi in Sardinia, Italy, despite being unable to start the final race in the regatta when their rudder fixings snapped. The team scored three race wins in the 6 race series, to come top, level on points with the POLIMI 1 and POLIMI 2 teams. POLIMI 2 scored 2 race wins, and POLIMI 1 won the remaining race.
In Division B, the crew from POLIMI won both races, with IE/POLIMI second and POLIMI/IE third in each.
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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
IE retained a very closely fought regatta in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, on 13-14 October winning three of the six races sailed. They held off LBS, who won 2 of the other races by 1 point. Imperial rounded out the podium and won the other race.
Six teams from four business schools competed in the last MBA regatta of 2023. The first day of racing saw light winds – especially in the second race, which ended with a gentle drift of boats downwind over the line. The second day saw four quick- fire races in slightly stronger conditions. Racing and boats were managed by the team from Codigo Cero.
75 participants joined the wider event, with over half enjoying an “Adventure” programme of touristic and sporting activities on the Friday and a Catamaran cruise on the Sunday. Evening events were hosted at the Costa Calero hotel and the Amura restaurant.
London Business School’s 3rd place at the IE Halloween regatta was enough to clinch the title of MBA Sailing League Champions for 2022. The only school to take part in all four regattas of 2022, London won the POLIMI regatta in Capri and the RSM regatta in Porto, coming 4th in the LBS Global MBA Trophy in Athens.
MIP/POLIMI’s win in Athens and 3rd place in Capri helped them to second place, while Imperial’s second place in Lanzarote sees them leapfrog Tuck into third. Tuck’s second in Athens means they take 4th place and IE’s win in Lanzarote means they round out the top 5.
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The IE crew led by Caroline Klass won in style on the second day of the Halloween regatta held in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote. The host team came away with two wins a second and a third, to head the table on 4 points after a discard. It was Caroline’s first regatta as skipper of a keelboat, and she and her crew took full advantage of the light conditions.
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MIP’s win in the Global MBA Trophy in Greece puts them top of the 2022 MBA Global Sailing League table. It also means that they climb to the top of the 12- month rankings, pushing Kellogg/WHU down to second place.
The full tables are published here: 2022 league and here: Rankings.
Third place in the rankings goes to Tuck, Imperial are 4th and LBS 5th.
The MBA Global Sailing League 
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