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Alan Roura

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Alan Roura
Personal information
NationalitySwiss
Born (1993-02-26) 26 February 1993 (age 31)
Onex
Sailing career
ClassIMOCA 60

Alan Roura is a Swiss professional sailor, born on 26 February 1993 in Onex (Switzerland). At the age of 23, in the 2016–2017 Vendée Globe which he finished in 12th place, he became the youngest competitor in the history of the event. In 2019, on La Fabrique, the second IMOCA of the name, he set a solo crossing of the North Atlantic on a 60-foot monohull crossing in a record time of 7 days, 16 hours, 58 minutes and 25 seconds. After 95 days at sea, he finished 17th in the 2020-2021 Vendée Globe. In October 2021, Alan Roura and his sponsors announced the purchase of a new IMOCA 60 for the Vendée Globe 2024: The ex hugo boss, a 2019 VPLP-Design previously owned by the British skipper Alex Thomson.[1]

Results

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Pos Year Event Class Boat Name Notes Ref.
Round the World Races
17 2020–21 2020–2021 Vendée Globe IMOCA 60 La Fabrique (2) 095d 06h 09m 56s [2]
12 2016–17: 2016–2017 Vendée Globe IMOCA 60 La Fabrique (1) 105d 20h 10m 32s [3]
Trans Oceanic Races
21 2020 Transat Jacques Vabre IMOCA 60 La Fabrique (2) with  Sébastien Audigane (FRA)
16d 05h 13m 30s
9 2017 Transat Jacques Vabre IMOCA 60 La Fabrique (2) with  Frédéric Denis (FRA)
16h 02h 04m 16s
10 2015 Transat Jacques Vabre Class40 Club 103 with  Juliette Petrès (FRA)
32d 22h 38m 35s
7 2018 Route du Rhum IMOCA 60 La Fabrique (2) 15d 02h 25m 37s [4][5]
RET 2014 Route du Rhum Class40
11 2013 Mini Transat
2019 Single handed North Atlantic crossing record 7d 16h 55m
Other Results
14 2020 Défi Azimut
15 2019 Défi Azimut
8 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race
6 2018 Monaco Globe Series
7 2015 Grand Prix Guyader

References

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  1. ^ "Alan Roura s'offre une machine de guerre". Le Temps (in French). 2021-10-27. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  2. ^ "Switzerland's Alan Roura (La Fabrique), finishes 17th in the Vendée Globe". 2021-02-11. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  3. ^ "News – Alan Roura takes twelfth place – Vendée Globe – En". vendeeglobe.org.
  4. ^ "2018 Skipper Profile - Alan Roura". Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  5. ^ "Results". Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
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