Female America's Cup team

Fuxia Challenge choose a Croatian yacht club

A new sport partnership between the Sailing Club of Rijeka and Sport Xtension, the limited company owner of the trademark and sailing project Fuxia Challenge, has been announced with the aim of competing in the 34th America's Cup. In addition to the Cup, the new project will include competing in several different sailing disciplines.

The mayor of the city Vojko Obersnel, the management of the Sailing Club - . Neven Baran, President, Darko Hajdinjak, VicePresident and Zoran Grubisa Secretary - and representatives of Sport Xtension ownership also attended and Gaetano Negotevic, mayor of Cres where the Sailing Club Rijeka was also invited.

Fuxia Challenge is a marketing platform owned by Sport Xtension, created to develop the first International sailing team exclusively made of female sailors from the ISAF top ranking.

“The distinctive element of our project is the Innovation in every aspect,” said Umberto Pieraccioni, partner and project leader of Sport Xtension. “The choice of a Croatian Yacht Club not only stems from the experience that Rijeka has recently developed, but also from the fact that, for the first time ever, Croatia would have a team competing in the America’s Cup alongside the worldwide èlite of sailing."