{"id":3301,"date":"2017-01-19T17:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2017-01-31T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:29:09","slug":"vendee-globe-victoire-record-armel-cleach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/vendee-globe-victoire-record-armel-cleach\/","title":{"rendered":"Vend\u00e9e Globe: a victory and a record for Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday at 4:37 pm, Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h crossed the finish line of the Vend\u00e9e Globe in victory. The sailor from Brittany, on board the monohull Banque Populaire VIII, finished his solo circumnavigation without stops or assistance in 74 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes and 46 seconds. On top of this fine victory, secured after coming second twice in this race in 2009 and 2013, Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h has also set a new record for the event, bringing down the time previously established by Fran\u00e7ois Gabart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\u00a9Vend\u00e9e<\/a>
\u00a9Vend\u00e9e Globe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cThings come in threes\u201d is a saying that Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h obviously didn\u2019t want to have any part in. After taking out second place on two occasions, he set out on the Vend\u00e9e Globe, on 6 November 2016, with the staunch desire to finally add his name to the list of winners of this solo circumnavigation race. This wish was fulfilled on Thursday, after a little over 74 days at sea.<\/p>\n

This much-coveted victory comes to a man who has worked flat out with his team on fine-tuning the perfect monohull for meeting this incredible challenge. The victory also marks the success of a sailor who has given his all, for two and a half months, day and night, in all imaginable climatic and sailing conditions.<\/p>\n

A racer named Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h<\/strong><\/p>\n

Departing from Les Sables d\u2019Olonnes as the favorite, Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h quickly took control of the race\u2026 with Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) on his trail. For 74 days, the two sailors engaged in a bitter battle. A consummate racer in the southern oceans, Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h went past Cape Horn first, over 800 miles ahead of his main rival, before coming up against less favorable conditions during his climb back up the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

For several days, less than 100 miles separated the two men, creating intense suspense around the race\u2019s outcome. But it was finally Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h that a horde of sailors would come to welcome as the winner, the atmosphere tremendously warm despite the intense cold off the Vend\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

There was no shortage of emotion this Thursday, and the skipper of the Banque Populaire VIII did not try to hold back his tears. \u201cI don\u2019t really realize what\u2019s happening to me. It\u2019s incredible! I fought out every mile.\u201d Before adding, in reference to Alex Thomson, whose arrival is expected tonight: \u201cHe ran a fantastic race. He\u2019s a fearsome rival.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Isabelle Trancoen<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday at 4:37 pm, Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h crossed the finish line of the Vend\u00e9e Globe in victory. The sailor from Brittany, on board the monohull Banque Populaire VIII, finished his solo circumnavigation without stops or assistance in 74 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes and 46 seconds. On top of this fine victory, secured after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,36,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armel-le-cleach","category-courses-2016-2017","category-vendee-globe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}