By The Ocean Race ‘Ending the ocean emergency is a race we must win, and working as one, it is a race we can win’ – this was the powerful message from United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at The Ocean Race Summit Mindelo, held in Cabo Verde, earlier today. Opening the event, he said: “We gather on […]
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The Ocean Race: Team JAJO wraps up second place in VO65 class
As Paul Meilhat’s Biotherm (fourth place) and Benjamin Dutreux’s GUYOT environnement – Team Europe (fifth place) completed the IMOCA rankings overnight, the Dutch Team JAJO earned a strong second place finish in The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint, behind Poland’s WindWhisper Racing Team who had finished earlier on Saturday with an impressive VO65 class victory. Dutch […]
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11th Hour Racing team claims 2nd place for Leg 1 of The Ocean Race
By 11th Hour Racing 11th Hour Racing Team, sailing onboard its 60-foot IMOCA race boat Mālama, has finished Leg 1 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 in second place. The opening leg of the grueling 31,700 nautical miles (36,500 miles, 58,700 kilometers) around-the-world race took the fleet from Alicante, Spain, to the Cabo Verde island of […]
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The Ocean Race: Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One
By The Ocean Race French skipper Kevin Escoffier led his Swiss-flagged Team Holcim-PRB to victory in leg one of The Ocean Race in the early hours of Saturday morning. It marked the end of an intense and challenging opening to The Ocean Race – from storm force headwinds in the Mediterranean to fast downwind conditions […]
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The Ocean Race: IMOCA crews set their sights on a new era of ocean racing
By The Ocean Race All five crews are racing in Lorient this week at the annual Défi Azimut – Lorient Agglomération regatta where all but one of them, Kevin Escoffier’s Holcim – PRB, are sailing with four crew and one onboard reporter (OBR), as per The Ocean Race regulations. Speaking to an audience of invited […]
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The Ocean Race aims for equal number of male and female sailors in the event by 2030
By The Ocean Race/Press Release The Ocean Race, the world’s toughest test of a team in sport, is aiming for a 50:50 split of women and men competing in the round-the-world sailing fleet within the next three editions of the Race, building on its historical leadership position that has seen 136 women take part in […]
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Paul Meilhat’s Biotherm will compete in The Ocean Race
French skipper Paul Meilhat will fulfill a lifelong dream in January 2023 when he leads Biotherm across the starting line of The Ocean Race on the waters off Alicante, Spain. The Ocean Race today announced that Meilhat and his team will be racing one of the newest IMOCA boats in the fleet, a Verdier design that is […]
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11th Hour Racing Team will train for The Ocean Race in Newport this June and July
Newport-based offshore sailing outfit 11th Hour Racing Team has unveiled its 2022 plans as it builds up to the pinnacle of crewed offshore ocean racing – The Ocean Race 2022-23. After a 14-month delay, The Ocean Race’s start date is now confirmed as January 15, 2023, from Alicante, Spain. While the sailing team will spend a large part of […]
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Stopover dates announced for The Ocean Race, returns to Newport in May 2023
The Ocean Race 2022-23 will visit nine iconic international cities over a six-month period, with leg one starting from Alicante, Spain, on 15 January 2023. The start of the 14th edition of The Ocean Race, early in the new year, will follow the Reyes holiday period in Spain, and see the two racing fleets (the foiling […]
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Start date confirmed for next edition of The Ocean Race
The start date for leg one of The Ocean Race 2022-23 has been confirmed with both IMOCA and VO65 fleets scheduled to burst from the starting blocks on Sunday, January 15, 2023, from Alicante on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. The Ocean Race said in a press release today that there will be race activity throughout 2022, with teams building […]
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New race course for The Ocean Race features the longest Southern Ocean leg in the 50-year history of the event
The following is a press release from The Ocean Race The next edition of The Ocean Race will feature the longest Southern Ocean leg in the 50-year history of the event, an incredible 12,750 nautical mile marathon between Cape Town, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil. This is just one of the highlights of the updated race course, confirmed this week. The race route for […]
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Aarhus confirmed as Host City for the 2021/2022 edition of The Ocean Race
Race Update from The Ocean Race The Ocean Race will come to Aarhus, Denmark during the spring of 2022, following a popular ‘Fly-By’ of the city during the final leg of the 2017-18 edition of the Race.The success of the Fly-By, where the fleet raced into the inner harbour of Aarhus port and around a […]