Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship
The Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship is an international sailing regatta in the Snipe class. The fleet of winning skipper is awarded the Hayward Western Hemisphere Trophy, donated by Commodore John T. Hayward, of Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] 3 races shall constitute a regatta.
It is sailed every two years (even years), on alternate years with the World Championship, since 1950. The Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship and the European Championship are the main competitions after the Worlds.[2]
Five qualified teams from each county in the Western Hemisphere and Japan, the current champion, the current world champion (providing it represents a WH&O nation), the prior year North American and Orient champions (providing each represents a Western Hemisphere and Orient nation) and the current year South American champion are entitled to compete.
Winners
| Year | Host | Skipper | Crew | Fleet |
| 1950 |  |
Clemente Inclán | Carlos Inclan | |
| 1952 |  |
Ted A. Wells | Charles Henry | |
| 1954 | |
Terry Whittemore | Bob Whittemore | |
| 1956 |  Sandys Boat Club St. George's Dinghy & Sports Club |
Penny Simmons | John Shirkey | |
| 1958 |  |
Bernard Hayward | Charles Brown | |
| 1960 |  |
Bernard Hayward | James Amos | |
| 1962 |  |
Reinaldo Conrad | Ralph Conrad | |
| 1964 | .svg.png){kind=small} |
Reinaldo Conrad | Ralph Conrad | |
| 1966 |  |
Ralph Conrad | João Pedro Reinhart | |
| 1968 | |
Takao Ninomiya | Hideo Kawamura |  |
| 1970 | |
Gary Boswell | Margaret Boswell | |
| 1972 |  |
Augie Diaz | Gonzalo E. Diaz | |
| 1974 | |
Jeff Lenhard | Donald Krebs | |
| 1976 | |
Marco Aurelio Paradeda | Luis Pajnovic | |
| 1978 | |
Ivan Pimentel | Carlos Dohnert | |
| 1980 | |
Dave Chapin | Scott Young | |
| 1982 | |
Dave Chapin | Tim Dixon | |
| 1984 |  |
John MacCall | Sergio Ripol | |
| 1986 | |
Santiago Lange | Miguel Saubidet | |
| 1988 | |
Ivan Pimentel | Luis Pejnovic | |
| 1990 | |
Ricardo Fabini | Harold Meerhoff | |
| 1992 | |
John Keane | Ted Keenan | |
| 1994 | |
Guillermo Parada | Gonzalo Martinez | |
| 1996 | |
Mauricio Santa Cruz Oliveira | Eduardo Neves | |
| 1998 | |
Eduardo Santambrogio | Gonzalo Martinez | |
| 2000 | |
Frederico Vasconcellos | Felipe Vasconcellos | |
| 2002 | |
Augie Diaz | Jon Rogers | |
| 2004 | |
Alexandre Dias Paradeda | Eduardo Paradeda | |
| 2006 | |
Pablo Defazio | Eduardo Medici | |
| 2008 | |
Bruno Bethlem de Amorim | Dante Bianchi | |
| 2010 | |
Ernesto Rodriguez | Mary Hall | |
| 2012 | |
Bruno Bethlem de Amorim | Dante Bianchi | |
| 2014 | |
Raúl Ríos | Fernando Monllor |  |
| 2016 | |
Édgar Diminich | Jaime Flores |  |
| 2018 | |
Ernesto Rodriguez | Kathleen Tocke | |
| 2020 | |