First event for new Ocean Race format

The first event run by the new organisers of the former Volvo Ocean Race, the Ocean Race Europe, finished in Genova this June. The Ocean Race Europe started on 29 May in Lorient, France, with stopovers in Cascais, Portugal, and Alicante, Spain before finishing in Italy.

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Yoann Richomme skippered the Mirpuri Foundation VO65 to win from Chris Nicholson’s AkzoNobel Ocean Racing, while the IMOCA 60 fleet was won by Robert Stanjek’s Offshore Team Germany ahead of Charlie Enright’s 11th Hour Racing Team.

The race attracted some big names from the offshore racing world; Nicholson was joined by fellow Volvo veterans Bouwe Bekking and Simeon Tienpont in the VO65s. Meanwhile the IMOCA fleet included Louis Burton on