French Yacht Racer
1. Philippe Jeantot (1952)
French Yacht Racer
Philippe Jeantot is a French former deep sea diver who achieved recognition as a sailor for long-distance single-handed racing and record-setting. He founded the Vendée Globe a single-handed round-the-world non-stop...
2. Loïck Peyron (Unknow)
French Yacht Racer
Loïck Peyron born 1 December 1959 in Nantes is a French yachtsman younger brother of the yachtsman Bruno Peyron. He is particularly famous for winning many races in the 1990s...
3. Christophe Auguin (1959)
French Yacht Racer
Christophe Auguin is a French yachtsman. He is the only one sailor to have won three single-handled sailing races around the globe: the BOC Challenge twice and the Vendée Globe....
4. Alain Thébault (1962)
French Yacht Racer
Alain Thébault is a French yachtsman and skipper of l'Hydroptère. With Éric Tabarly he participated in the conception of a multihull on hydrofoils named l'Hydroptère with a team of engineers...
5. Bruno Peyron (1955)
French Yacht Racer
Bruno Tristan Peyron is a French yachtsman who along with his crew on the catamaran Orange II broke the outright round-the-world sailing record in March 2005. He was the first...
6. Michel Desjoyeaux (1965)
French Yacht Racer
Michel Desjoyeaux is a French sailor known for competing successfully in several long-distance single-handed races. He won the Vendée Globe race in 2000-01 and 2008–09 making him the only person...
7. Philippe Presti (1965)
French Yacht Racer
Philippe Presti is a French sailor. He competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. In 1993 and 1996 he won the Finn Gold Cup
8. Francis Joyon (1956)
French Yacht Racer
s Joyon is a French professional sail boat racer and yachtsman and currently holds the record for the fastest single-handed sailing circumnavigation. Although previously well known as an offshore sailor...
9. Yves Parlier (1960)
French Yacht Racer
Yves Parlier is a French sailor. He is very well known in the offshore sailing world and generally in France where he was elected France's top sports personality in 2002....
10. François Gabart (1983)
French Yacht Racer
çois Gabart is a French professional offshore yacht racer who won the 2012-13 Vendée Globe in 78 days 2 hours 16 minutes setting a new race record.
11. Claire Leroy (1980)
French Yacht Racer
Claire Leroy is a French sailor. In 2007 and 2008 she won the world championships in female match racing. She was named the International Sailing Federation's female World Sailor of...
12. Jonathan Lobert (1985)
French Yacht Racer
Jonathan Lobert is a French sailor. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Finn class where he obtained the bronze medal.
13. Franck Cammas (1972)
French Yacht Racer
Cammas is a French yachtsman. He has lived in Brittany since his victory in the Challenge Espoir Crédit Agricole in 1994. After completing a two year maths course for the...
