Artemis Racing is a professional sailing team founded in 2006 by businessman and sailor
Torbjörn Törnqvist, named after
Artemis, the ancient Greek goddess.
Timeline
2007: won the MedCup circuit, then called Breitling Medcup, and the TP52 World Championship.
2008: entered the RC44 Championship, winning the fleet racing element in 2009 and the World title in 2011.
2009–2010: competed in the
Louis Vuitton Trophy regattas. Held in response to long delays from legal action surrounding the America's Cup, the four regattas were each staged in a different country, and teams raced in supplied
IACC yachts.
2011–2012 America's Cup World Series: won the Match Racing title in both the Naples & Venice Regattas then won the Match Racing titles in the first two regattas of the three-part 2012–2013 season.
2013: On May 9, the first of the two
AC72 catamarans the team was testing
capsized and
turtled, resulting in the death of crewmember and British Olympic gold medalist sailor
Andrew "Bart" Simpson.[1][2][3] This was the second major accident involving the current AC72, following the capsizing of defending Cup champion
Oracle Team USA on October 16, 2012.[4][5][6]
2017: In August 2014, Artemis Racing announced its challenge for the
35th America's Cup which is scheduled to be raced in
Bermuda in June 2017. The team designed and built their boats for the 35th America's Cup challenge, from a converted aircraft hangar in
Alameda, California. In the challenger series, Artemis progressed to the
Louis Vuitton Cup finals, where they were defeated by
Emirates Team New Zealand.