Team Gladiator
Gladiators are Rolex TP52 2024 World Champions!
Gladiator Sailing Team is the UK’s foremost Grand Prix monohull yacht racing team.
The team campaigns three TP52 racing yachts based in: Cowes, Isle of Wight in the UK; Palma Mallorca, in the Mediterranean and; Newport RI in the USA.
The team competes primarily in the elite TP52 Super Series, the world’s premiere monohull yacht racing circuit. The five-regatta series takes place each summer at different locations in the Mediterranean.
Included in the series is the Rolex TP52 World Championship. Rolex have been associated with the TP52 Super Series since it’s inception in 2012.
In the USA, Gladiator Sailing Team competes at the prestigious New York Yacht Club (NYYC) Annual Regatta and at the NYYC Rolex Race Week. In the UK, the team are a regular spectacle at the world-famous Cowes Week. Gladiator Sailing Team is owned by the British billionaire industrialist, Tony Langley. The team’s principal sponsor is Langley Holdings plc, which features different divisions of the group each season, alongside the core Langley branding.
The team
Gladiator is a well-known British flagged team. They are part of the Quantum Sails stable and in 2023 recruited the hugely successful Argentinian ace Guillermo Parada as tactician, with four 52 SUPER SERIES titles.