This year, in 2021, the Transat Jacques Vabre launches its fifteenth edition since the first one, in 1993. This classic of ocean racing has already crowned winners fourteen times. Discover, or rediscover, the winners of the competition before the launch of this new edition.
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The winners of the Transat Jacques Vabre
1993: Le Havre – Cartagena (Colombia)
1st multihull: Paul Vatine in the Haute-Normandie region in 16 days and 46 minutes
1st monohull: Yves Parlier on Cacolac d’Aquitaine in 18 days, 23 hours and 38 minutes
1995: Le Havre – Cartagena
1st multihull: Paul Vatine and Roland Jourdain in the Haute-Normandie region in 14 days, 12 hours and 25 minutes
1st monohull: Jean Maurel and Fred Dahirel on Côte d’Or in 21 days, 8 hours and 40 minutes
1997: Le Havre – Cartagena
1st multihull: Laurent and Yvan Bourgnon on Primagaz in 14 days, 7 hours and 37 minutes
1st monohull: Yves Parlier and Éric Tabarly on Aquitaine Innovations in 19 days, 23 hours and 19 minutes
1999: Le Havre – Cartagena
1st multihull: Loïck Peyron and Franck Proffit on Fujicolor in 15 days, 2 hours and 8 minutes
1st monohull: Thomas Coville and Hervé Jan on Sodebo in 19 days, 17 hours and 31 minutes
2001: Le Havre – Salvador de Bahia (Brazil)
1st multihull 60: Franck Cammas and Stève Ravussin on Groupama in 14 days, 9 hours and 3 minutes
1st monohull 60: Roland Jourdain and Gaël Le Cléac’h on Sill in 16 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes
1st monohull 50: Alex Bennett and Paul Larsen on One Dream in 18 days, 16 hours and 34 minutes
2003: Le Havre – Salvador de Bahia
1st multihull 60: Franck Cammas and Franck Proffit on Groupama
1st multihull 50: Ross Hobson (United Kingdom) and Andy Newman (United Kingdom) on Mollymawk
1st monohull 60: Jean-Pierre Dick and Nicolas Abiven on Virbac
1st monohull 50: Conrad Humphreys (United Kingdom) and Paul Larsen (Australia) on Hellomoto
2005: Le Havre – Salvador de Bahia
1st multihull 60 feet: Pascal Bidégorry and Lionel Lemonchois on Banque Populaire IV in 14 days 1 hour 46 minutes
1st 50-foot multihull: Franck-Yves Escoffier and Kevin Escoffier on Crêpes Whaou in 12 days 6 hours 13 minutes
1st 60-foot monohull: Jean-Pierre Dick and Loïck Peyron on Virbac Paprec in 13 days 9 hours 19 minutes
1st 50-foot monohull: Joe Harris and Josh Hall on Gryphon Solo 19 days 9 hours 5 minutes
2007: Le Havre – Salvador de Bahia
1st multihull 60: Franck Cammas and Stève Ravussin on Groupama 2 in 10 days, 38 minutes and 43 seconds (record time for the race)
1st multihull 50: Franck-Yves Escoffier and Karine Fauconnier on Crêpes Whaou in 15 days, 22 hours, 27 minutes and 37 seconds
1st monohull 60: Michel Desjoyeaux and Emmanuel Le Borgne on Foncia in 17 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes and 5 seconds
1st monohull 40: Giovanni Soldini and Pietro d’Ali on Telecom Italia in 22 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes and 22 seconds
2009: Le Havre – Puerto Limon (Costa Rica)
1st multihull 50: Franck-Yves Escoffier and Erwan Le Roux on Crêpes Whaou in 15 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes and 50 seconds
1st monohull 60: Marc Guillemot and Charles Caudrelier on Safran in 15 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes and 10 seconds
2011: Le Havre – Puerto Limon
1st monohull 60: Jean-Pierre Dick and Jérémie Beyou on Virbac Paprec 3 in 15 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes and 54 seconds
1st multihull 50: Yves Le Blevec and Samuel Manuard on Actual in 17 days, 17 hours, 7 minutes and 43 seconds
1st Class40 monohull: Yannick Bestaven and Éric Drouglazet on Aquarelle.com in 21 days, 17 hours, 59 minutes and 8 seconds
2013: Le Havre – Itajai (Brazil)
1st MOD70 multihull: Sébastien Josse and Charles Caudrelier on Edmond de Rothschild in 11 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes and 54 seconds
1st Multi50 multihull: Erwan Le Roux and Yann Eliès on FenetreA – Cardinal in 14 days, 17 hours, 50 minutes and 15 seconds
1st IMOCA 60-foot monohull: Vincent Riou and Jean Le Cam on PRB in 17 days, 41 minutes and 47 seconds
1st Class40 monohull: Sébastien Rogues and Fabien Delahaye on GDF Suez in 20 days, 21 hours, 41 minutes and 25 seconds
2015: Le Havre – Itajai
1st Ultimate multihull: François Gabart and Pascal Bidégorry on Macif in 12 days, 17 hours, 29 minutes and 27 seconds;
1st Multi50 multihull: Erwan Le Roux and Giancarlo Pedote on FenetreA – Prysmian in 16 days 22 hours 29 minutes and 13 seconds
1st 60-foot IMOCA monohull: Vincent Riou and Sébastien Col on PRB in 17 days, 22 minutes and 24 seconds;
1st Class40 monohull: Yannick Bestaven and Pierre Brasseur on Le Conservateur in 24 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes and 9 seconds.
2017: Le Havre – Salvador de Bahia
1st Ultimate multihull: Thomas Coville and Jean-Luc Nelias on Sodebo Ultim in 7 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes and 27 seconds
1st Multi50 multihull: Lalou Roucayrol and Alex Pella on Arkema in 10 days, 19 hours, 14 minutes and 19 seconds
1st IMOCA 60-foot monohull: Jean-Pierre Dick and Yann Eliès on StMichel-Virbac in 13 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes and 46 seconds
1st Class40 monohull: Maxime Sorel and Antoine Carpentier on VandB – Beating cystic fibrosis in 17 days 10 hours 44 minutes and 15 seconds
2019: Le Havre – Salvador de Bahia
1st Multi50 multihull: Gilles Lamiré and Antoine Carpentier on Groupe GCA – A thousand and one smiles in 11 days, 16 hours, 34 minutes and 41 seconds10,11
1st IMOCA 60-foot monohull: Charlie Dalin and Yann Eliès on Apivia in 13 days, 12 hours and 8 minutes12
1st Class40 monohull: Flag of France Ian Lipinski and Flag of France Adrien Hardy on Crédit Mutuel in 17 days, 16 hours, 21 minutes and 23 seconds13
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