138 skippers at the start of the Route du Rhum 2022
The race director Francis Le Goff had announced it when we interviewed him, this edition of the Route du Rhum Destination Guadeloupe 2022 was already announced as a record, far exceeding the 120 participants recorded in the notice of race. It is indeed the case since they will be 138 participants on the starting line in Saint-Malo on November 6th. The race organization reserves the right to award 18 Wild Cards whose names will be revealed throughout the month of April. As a reminder, in 2018, the selected skippers were 123âeuros¦ To continue in the figures, the race organization announces that it has received 149 applications for the opening in July 2021.
A few surprises and names in the airâeuros¦
If there are no surprises for the Ultim and Ocean Fifty classes, the fleets are complete and even François Gabart is among those registered, the IMOCA class shows some absentees, at least for the moment. Will Yannick Bestaven (Maitre Coq), the last winner of the 2021 Vendée Globe, Alan Roura who bought the former Hugo Boss from Alex Thomson (Hublot) or Clarisse Crémer (Banque Populaire) receive one of these famous invitations? Also on the list is Jéremie Beyou's team but without a skipperâeuros¦ Who will be at the helm of Charal 1 knowing that Jéremie Beyou will have received his new IMOCA Charal 2, launched in June 2022âeuros?
In the same way, in the Rhum Multi class, Philippe Poupon and Roland Jourdain have announced their participation but do not appear in the official list.
Titleholders on the starting line
Note that this edition will bring together four title holders in their category: Francis Joyon (Idec Sport) in the Ultimates trimarans, Paul Meilhat (Biotherm) in the IMOCA class, Armel Tripon (Les P'tits Doudous) in the Ocean Fifty class, Yoann Richomme (Paprec âeuros Arkea) in the Class40 class.
Nothing is won yetâ?¦
All that remains for these skippers to validate their final registration is to complete all the formalities imposed by the notice of race: qualifying course, participation in the other races of the season, measurement checks for new boatsâeuros¦
Ultim : 6 participants
- Yves le Blévec (Actual)
- Armel le Cléac'h (Banque Populaire)
- Charles Caudrelier (Edmond de Rothschild)
- Francis Joyon (Idec sport)
- Thomas Coville (Sodebo Ultim 3)
- François Gabart (SVR Lazartigue)
Ocean Fifty: 8 participants
- Quentin Vlamynck (Arkema)
- Gilles Lamiré (Group GCA-1001 SOURIRES)
- Erwan Le Roux (Koesio)
- Eric Péron (Komilfo)
- Armel Tripont (Les P'tits Doudous)
- Sam Goodchild (Leyton)
- Sébastien Rogues (Primonial)
- Thibaut Vauchel-Camus (Solidaires En Peloton - ARSEP)
IMOCA : 27 participants
- Charlie Dalin (Apivia)
- Skipper Not communicated (BeYou Racing)
- Paul Meilhat (Biotherm)
- Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée)
- Jérémie Beyou (Charal)
- Nicolas Troussel (Corum L'Epargne)
- Kojiro Shiraishi (DMG Mori)
- Antoine Cornic (Ebac Literie)
- Romain Attanasio (Fortinet Best Western)
- Manuel Cousin (Setin Group)
- Eric Bellion ( Hubert)
- Louis Duc (Imoca 172)
- Samantha Davies (Initiatives-Coeur)
- Pierre Lacaze (Kattan)
- Arnaud Boissières (La Mie Câline)
- Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut)
- Isabelle Joschke (MACSF)
- Boris Herrmann (Malizia Sea Explorer)
- Pip Hare (Medallia)
- Tanguy Le Turquais (NC)
- Fabrice Amédéo ( Nexans Art et Fenêtres)
- Kevin Escoffier (PRB)
- Giancarlo Pedote (Prysmian group)
- Benjamin Ferre (So Good)
- Benjamin Dutreux (Guyot Environnement)
- Maxime Sorel (V and B Monbana)
- Guirec Soudée (Freelance.com)
Class 40 : 55 participants
- Maxime Cauwe (#OnEstLarge)
- Didier Le Vourch (To come)
- Ivica Kostelic (Coming soon)
- François Jambou (Bougie Down)
- Keni Piperol (Capt'ain Alternance)
- Mikael Mergui (Centrakor)
- Jean-Baptiste Daramy (Chocolat Paries)
- Ian Lipinski (Crédit Mutuel)
- Aurélien Ducroz (Crosscall)
- Antoine Magre (E Leclerc Ville La Grand)
- Emmanuel Le Roch (Edenred)
- Yves Courbon (In progress)
- Henry Rupert (Eora)
- Florian Gueguen (Parkinson Sailing Team)
- Stan Thuret (Everial)
- Martin Le Pape (Stargardt Foundation)
- Geoffrey Matacsynski (Fortissimo)
- Xavier Macaire (Snef Group)
- Nicolas D'estais (Happyvore)
- Kito de Pavant (HBF ReforestAction)
- Alberto Bona (Ibsa Group)
- Andrea Fornaro (In fluence)
- Matthieu Perraut (Inter Invest)
- Laurent Camprubi (Jeanne)
- Hiroshi Kitada (Kiho)
- Greg Leonard (Kite)
- Amélie Grassi (La Boulangère Bio)
- Victor Jost (Reunion Island)
- Luke Berry (Lamotte creation module)
- Pierre Casenave âeuros Peré (Legallais)
- William Mathelin Moreaux (Napadelis)
- Ambrogio Becaria (To come)
- Jules Bonnier (Nestenn Entrepreneurs for the Planet)
- Simon Koster (Coming soon)
- Hervé Thomas (Odegam)
- Yoann Richomme (Arkea Paprec)
- Alex Mehran (Polka dot)
- Mathieu Claveau (Prendre la mer, Agir pour la Forêt)
- Romain Rossi (Prism)
- Axel Trehin (Project rescue)
- Corentin Douguet (Queguiner Innoveo)
- Martin Louchart (Randstadt Ausy)
- Kieran Le Borgne (Recycleurs Bretons-Navaleo)
- Antoine Carpentier (Redman)
- Clément Commagnac or Baptiste Hulin (Rennes / Saint-Malo / Mer Entreprendre)
- Marc Lepsqueux (Sensation Class40)
- Jean Galfione (Serenis Consulting)
- Cedric Château (Sogestran Seafrigo)
- Alexander Donald (Coming soon)
- Morgane Ursault-Poupon (Up Sailing - United for the Planet)
- Sacha Daunar (Vikings for ever)
- Emmanuel Hammez (Virunga)
- Pierre Louis Attwell (Vogue with Crohn's)
- Jonas Gerkens (Volvo)
- Franz Bouvet (Yoda)
Rhum Mono : 13 participants
- Fabio Gennari (Bella Donna - Race for Pure Ocean)
- Wilfrid Clerton (Cap au cap location)
- Olivier Nemsguern (Elora)
- Rémy Gérin (Faïaoahé)
- Catherine Chabaud (Formatives network)
- Gilles Colubi (Kornog 2)
- André Laumet (Lea)
- Arnaud Pennarun (Pen Duick III)
- Daniel Ecalard (SOS Parebrise Plus)
- Guy Pronier (Terranimo)
- Jean-Pierre Dick (The Kid for Ville de Nice)
- Willy Bissainte (Tradysion Gwadloup)
Rhum Multi : 12 participants
- Charlie Capelle (Acapella - La Chaîne de l'Espoir)
- Christophe Bogrand (Château du Launay)
- Erwan Thiboumery (Fondationoceanos.org)
- Jean Paul Froc (Friends and lovers)
- Gwen Chapalain (Guyader Savéol)
- Gilles Buekenhout (Jess)
- Halvard Mabire (Mora)
- Etienne Hochede (PiR2)
- Oren Nataf (Green Ray)
- Fabrice Payen (Team Vent debout)
- David Ducosson (Trilogic)
- Brieuc Maisonneuve (60,000 rebounds)
