Ocean Fifty class win : Basile Bourgnon
Edenred 5Saint-Malo → Pointe-à-Pitre
Basile Bourgnon wins the 2026 Route du Rhum in the Ocean Fifty class aboard Edenred 5, crossing the line in Pointe-à-Pitre after 9 d 17 h 10 min of racing.
Race time
9 d 17 h 10
Finished on 11 November at 01:12, Guadeloupe time
Record beaten by 1 d 4 h 25
- Leading the class
- 95 %
- of the time, 222 h
The crossing, chapter by chapter
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Day 1 ·
Matthieu Perraut takes over first place.
Day 1 ·
Moves ahead of Thibaut Vauchel-Camus to lead the class.
Day 2 ·
Leading the class after 24 hours of racing.
Day 2 ·
Gains 2 places in 24 hours, from 3rd to 1st.
Around day 3
Crosses the 30th meridian west at 45° N, 100 miles further north than most of the class.
Day 4 ·
Lead stretched by 90 miles in 24 hours.
Day 5 ·
133 miles ahead of Pierre Quiroga, the widest margin of the race.
Day 10 ·
Crosses the line in Pointe-à-Pitre as the class winner, after 9 d 17 h 10 min of racing.
Position, report after report
The race story
After moving ahead of Thibaut Vauchel-Camus on day 1, Bourgnon led the class for 222 hours in all. That is 1 d 4 h 25 min faster than Erwan Le Roux in 2022.
Written at the finish from the track, the position reports and the official race committee rankings. Moments and figures are computed, never made up.
Cheers received
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798 cheerssent to Basile Bourgnon during the race.
- 421Wind
- 248Love
- 61Surf
- 68Turbo
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