It took winner Charlie Dalin 1,555 hours and almost 23 minutes to complete his masterful non-stop solo around the world. The dominator crossed the finish line after 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds. The Frenchman has thus set a Vendée Globe record that may have a very long shelf life after an outstanding performance in often foggy conditions.
The Vendée Globe all-time best
The comparison with the four-year-old time of defending champion Yannick Bestaven shows how much faster the current 10th Vendée Globe was than the previous 2020/2021 edition. The first eleven boats to beat Bestaven's time in the latest edition. Also interesting: Of the 15 fastest Vendée Globe times across all ten editions of the solo round the world race, Bestaven's time from 2021 did not make it into the top 15.
Eleven soloists in the current edition were among the fastest 15 Vendée Globe participants in the history of the race. The fastest former participant in the all-time best list is Armel Le Cléac'h in fourth place. The Frenchman won the 2016/2017 race in 74 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes and 46 seconds.
The group of the fastest 15 skippers in Vendée Globe history is now led by Charlie Dalin, Yoann Richomme and Sébastien Simon ahead of Armel Le Cléac'h. They are followed by Jérémie Beyou and Alex Thomson, another former participant who narrowly lost out to Le Clác'h eight years ago in second place after 74 days, 19 hours, 35 minutes and 15 seconds. TeamWork - Team Snef" skipper Justine Mettrau was the only woman to achieve a place among the 15 fastest in the 36-year history of the race with her 76 days.
The fastest Vendée Globe in racing history
In addition to the current Vendée Globe bests, the list of the 15 all-time fastest riders also includes François Gabart with his winning time from 2012/2013 (78 days, 2 hours, 16 minutes, 40 seconds) in fourteenth place and Armel Le Cléac'h, who finished the same race in 2012/2013 just over three hours after Gabart. Overall, however, the current race was very, very fast after a slow start.
Now let's take a look at the inside conditions at the 10th Vendée Globe. Here is an overview of the results and times of the top fifteen:
- Charlie Dalin ("Macif Santé Prévoyance"): 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, 49 seconds
- Yoann Richomme ("Paprec Arkéa"): 65 days, 18 hours, 10 minutes, 2 seconds
- Sébastien Simon ("Groupe Dubreuil"): 67 days, 12 hours, 25 minutes, 37 seconds
- Jérémie Beyou ("Charal"): 74 days, 12 hours, 25 minutes, 37 seconds
- Paul Meilhat ("Biotherm"): 74 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes, 54 seconds
- Nicolas Lunven ("Holcim - PRB"): 75 days, 7 hours, 49 minutes, 41 seconds
- Thomas Ruyant ("Vulnerable"): 75 days, 16 hours, 47 minutes, 27 seconds
- Justine Mettraux ("TeamWork-Team Snef"): 76 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes, 52 seconds
- Sam Goodchild ("Vulnerable"): 76 days, 2 hours 1 minute, 45 seconds
- Benjamin Dutreux ("Guyot Environnement - Water Family"): 77 days, 3 hours, 39 minutes, 24 seconds
- Clarisse Crémer ("L'Occitane en Provence"): 77 days, 15 hours, 34 minutes, 28 seconds
- Boris Herrmann ("Malizia - Seaexplorer"): 80 days, 10 hours, 16 minutes, 41 seconds
- Samantha Davies ("Initiatives-Cœur"): 80 days, 22 hours, 13 minutes, 39 seconds
- Romain Attanasio ("Fortinet - Best Western"): 83 days, 22 hours, 48 minutes, 18 seconds
- Damien Seguin ("Apicil"): 84 days, 20 hours, 31 minutes, 48 seconds
On average faster than Dalin: Yoann Richomme
The average speeds of the boats in the Vendée Globe shown here were calculated in relation to the nautical miles travelled over ground. The results show changes in comparison to the final classification of the 10th Vendée Globe. For example, it was not the winner Charlie Dalin who was the fastest in the fleet on average, but the Vendée Globe runner-up Yoann Richomme. Here is an overview of the average speeds of the top 15:
- Yoann Richomme: 17,95 knots
- Charlie Dalin: 17.79 knots
- Sébastien Simon: 17.16 knots
- Nico Lunven: 16.26 knots
- Jérémie Beyou: 16.24 knots
- Thomas Ruyant16.16 knots
- Sam Goodchild 15.64 knots
- Paul Meilhat15.60 knots
- Benjamin Dutreux15.40 knots
- Justine Mettraux15.39 knots
- Boris Herrmann15.13 knots
- Clarisse Crémer: 14.97 knots
- Samantha Davies14.72 knots
- Damien Seguin: 14.37 knots
- Romain Attanasio: 14.34 knots
The shortest courses: Clarisse Crémer in the top three
The values shown represent the "real" nautical miles sailed over ground by the skippers in the 10th Vendée Globe. This shows significant differences in effectiveness. Significant deviations from the ideal course line, such as the northern loop of many of the top ten boats in the Indian Ocean, contributed to a considerable increase in distance.
Here, too, there are striking differences to the classification. Clarisse Crémer, for example, mastered the third-shortest course, but was only the twelfth-fastest. Nico Lunven, on the other hand, was one of the fastest, but has the most miles in the Vendée Globe sternwater among the top 15.
- Charlie Dalin: 27,668 nautical miles
- Sébastian Simon: 27,807 nautical miles
- Clarisse Crémer: 27,901 nautical miles
- Paul Meilhat: 28,051 nautical miles
- Justine Mettraux: 28,102 nautical miles
- Yoann Richomme: 28,326 nautical miles
- Benjamin Dutreux: 28,514 nautical miles
- Sam Goodchild: 28,557 nautical miles
- Samantha Davies: 28,584 nautical miles
- Romain Attanasio: 28,899 nautical miles
- Jérémie Beyou: 29,049 nautical miles
- Boris Herrmann: 29,201 nautical miles
- Thomas Ruyant: 29,360 nautical miles
- Damien Seguin: 29,263 nautical miles
- Nico Lunven: 29,389 nautical miles
Meanwhile, the 10th Vendée Globe continues on the water. Antoine Cornic ("Human Immobilier") is expected to cross the finish line today in 28th place. The Swiss "Tut Gut." skipper Oliver Heer still had around 1000 nautical miles to go to the finish at midday on 13 February. He will be followed by four more skippers: Jingkun Xu from China, Manuel Cousin and Fabrice Amedeo from France and Denis van Weynbergh from Belgium. Here it goes to the live tracker for the current 10th Vendée Globe with the results and interim results.
