The Tauranga Cup is an annual New Zealand national open sailing competition for under 17 year-olds, sailing P Class dinghies. Many of New Zealand's top sailors have competed in and won the Tauranga Cup, including Dean Barker, Chris Dickson and Leslie Egnot.
The competition was first sailed in 1940, and the name comes from the fact that P Class yachts were originally sailed in Tauranga.
The national inter-provincial P Class competition for the Tanner Cup is normally sailed at the same venue.
List of winners YearWinner 1940 Ron Nalder 1941 W. Bean 1942 Not sailed due to World War II 1943 Not sailed due to World War II 1944 Owen Mackay 1945 William Hayman 1946 Graham Mander 1947 Graham Mander 1948 Not sailed due to polio epidemic 1949 David Mander 1950 Don Dixon 1951 Jimmy Gilpin 1952 Jimmy Gilpin 1953 Jimmy Gilpin 1954 A. Brown 1955 Rob Denniston 1956 Rob Denniston 1957 Wayne Innes 1958 Melvin Tyson 1959 Wayne Innes 1960 Lex McGrath 1961 Mark Patterson 1962 Russell Bowler 1963 Mark Patterson 1964 Roy Granic(h) 1965 Ron Watson 1966 Greg Moyes 1967 Brian Baker 1968 John Moyes 1969 John Moyes 1970 Alan Moyes 1971 Alan Moyes 1972 Greg Palmer 1973 David Barnes 1974 Paul Francis 1975 Brian Jones 1976 Stuart Mills 1977 Chris Dickson 1978 Len Davies 1979 Leslie Egnot 1980 John Irvine 1981 Terry Nicholas 1982 Terry Nicholas 1983 Steven Cotton 1984 Jon Bilger 1985 Jon Bilger 1986 Geoff Senior 1987 Ramon Davies 1988 Dean Barker 1989 Zane Gifford 1990 Chris Main 1991 Simon Cooke 1992 Simon Cooke 1993 Alistair Tate 1994 Simon Lee 1995 Derek Scott 1996 Kevin Borrows 1997 Carl Peters 1998 Mark Kennedy 1999 Sam Fenwick 2000 Scott Kennedy 2001 Scott Kennedy 2002 Alistair Thompson 2003 Scott Morrison 2004 Thomas Olds 2005 Paul Snow-Hansen 2006 Carl Evans 2007 Thomas Saunders 2008 James Turner 2009 Oscar Rorvik 2010 Jayvee Buchanan 2011 Trent Rippey 2012 Isaac McHardie 2013 No cup awarded. (Leonard Takahashi-Fry)A minimum of four races are required to award the cup, and a minimum of five to designate the winning competitor the P Class national champion. In 2013 only one race was sailed, won by Leonard Takahashi-Fry, so the cup was not awarded. 2014 Kate Stewart 2015 Scott McKenzie 2016 Robbie McCutcheon 2017 Blake McGlashan 2018 Seb Menzies 2019 Sean Kensington 2020 Tim Howse 2021 Sean Kensington 2022 Joe Leith 2023 Oli Stone 2024 Oli Stone 2025 Blake Batten 2026
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