Pascal Bidégorry
Pascal Bidegorry (born 15 January 1968, in Bayonne) is a French sailor. Life. He has raced across the Atlantic Ocean over 30 times and has set records in many classes. He has won the Solitaire du Figaro and the Transat Jacques Vabre; apart from several championships in the ORMA, IMOCA, MOD 70 and circuits. Besides, he has six French and World Championship titles under his belt. He joined Team Banque Populaire in 2004 as skipper of the "Banque Populaire III" trimaran. From February 2010 to April 2011, he was skipper of Banque Populaire V, the world's largest  ocean racing trimaran at in length and campaigned the yacht in breaking ocean racing records. He was the navigator onboard Dongfeng Race Team in the 2014–15 Volvo Ocean Race, and again in the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race, when Dongfeng won the race by just 30 minutes at the end of the final leg, having not won a single leg beforehand, following a three-way tie with Team Brunel and MAPFRE. He was co-skipper of the 100 ft trimaran "MACIF" in the 2015 Transat Jacques Vabre, together with Francois Gabart. They won the race from Le Havre (France) to Itajaí  (Brazil) after 12 days 17hrs 29min 27sec sailing at an average speed of 17.68 knots for the theoretical course of 5,400 nm (10,000 km).