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Vincent Riou | |
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Nationality | French |
Occupation | Sailor |
Known for | Winning the Vendée Globe |
Vincent Riou (born 9 January 1972, Pont-l'Abbé, France) is a French sailor. He is the skipper of PRB, a 60-foot monohull. He won the 2004 edition of the Vendée Globe. [1]
As part of his introduction to solo racing he helped prepared Michel Desjoyeaux’s 60-foot PRB for the 2000 edition of the Vendée Globe.
In the 2008 Vendée Globe, he lost his mast the day after a collision that occurred during the rescue of Jean Le Cam, whose boat had capsized. [2]
In the 2016 Vendée Globe, he sailed at a decent speed completing with front boats fitted with hydrofoils, but after 15 days 11 hours 58 minutes of racing and completing 27% [3] of the whole race, he was forced to retire after another collision with a UFO. [4] The almost exact same incident had happened to Vincent [5] in the 2012–2013 Vendée Globe with that he is easily one of the most unfortunate sailors of the Vendée Globe.
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