Gold Cup

Gold Cup may refer to:

In art and archaeology:

• Royal Gold Cup, 14th century French cup in the British Museum
• Rillaton Gold Cup, late Neolithic, from Rillaton Barrow in England
• Ringlemere Cup, Bronze Age from England

In horse racing:

• Ascot Gold Cup, classic horse race run at Ascot Racecourse, UK, during June
• Awapuni Gold Cup, major horse race run under weight-for-age conditions held in Awapuni, Palmerston North, New Zealand
• Ayr Gold Cup, flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a straight 6 furlongs
• Cheltenham Gold Cup, highlight of the Cheltenham Festival held on the last day (the Friday)
• Geraldton Gold Cup, one of Western Australia's most popular races
• Gold Cup at Santa Anita, Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses raced at various Los Angeles-area tracks since 1938, currently held at Santa Anita Park.
• Gold Cup Steeplechase American race
• Gold Cup Vase or Queen's Vase, a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to three-year-old thoroughbreds
• Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap, Grade II race for thoroughbred horses run at Hawthorne Race Course each year
• Jockey Club Gold Cup, horse race, Elmont, New York
• Paddy Power Gold Cup, Grade 3 National Hunt horse race in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above horses, at Cheltenham
• Tattersalls Gold Cup, horse race run at The Curragh, Ireland in May
• Virginia Gold Cup, Steeplechase run on the first Saturday in May, American

In association football:

• Copa de Oro (Spanish: Gold Cup), South American association football competition between the club winners of the Copa Libertadores de América, the Supercopa Sudamericana, the Copa CONMEBOL, and the Supercopa Masters
• CONCACAF Gold Cup, association football competition between nations from North and Central America and from the Caribbean
• CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup, women's association football competition
• Gold Cup (Northern Ireland), defunct association football competition
• Aga Khan Gold Cup, defunct association football competition

In rugby union:

• SARU Gold Cup, a South African rugby union competition between the winners of the club championships of provincial unions, Namibia and Zimbabwe

In motorsport:

• Oulton Park International Gold Cup, an annual non-Championship Formula One race of the 1950s and '60s, recently reinstated for historic F1 cars
• Gold Cup (motorsport), an annual hydroplane racing cup on the Detroit River since 1904

In sailing:

• Several unrelated racing events
  • Scandinavian Gold Cup, annual nation race of 5.5 metre class yachts.
  • Dragon Gold Cup, established in 1937 for Dragon Class one-design yachts.
  • Finn Gold Cup, annual World Championship event for Finn dinghies.
  • King Edward VII Gold Cup, raced in Bermuda with International One Design class yachts.
  • Nordic Folkboat Gold Cup, established in 1963 for Nordic Folkboat class one-design yachts.

In contract bridge:

• Gold Cup (bridge), the premier open competition in the United Kingdom

See also

• Cup of Gold (novel), 1929 novel by John Steinbeck
• Cup of Gold, Solandra maxima, tropical tree-climbing plant