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

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Year Winner
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 Geoff 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)[1]
2014 Kate Stewart
2015 Scott McKenzie
2016 Robbie McCutcheon
2017 Blake McGlashan
2018 Seb Menzies
2019 Sean Kensington
2020 Tim Howse
2021 Sean Kensington

References

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  1. ^ 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.