When Sam Goodchild and Lois Berrehar on Macif Santé Prévoyance crossed the finish line early this Friday afternoon in Martinique to take third place in the IMOCA class, the podium for the 17th edition of The TRANSAT CAFÉ L’OR was completed.

Here are the detailed stories and some quotes of each of the top three duos. Use any stories from the website, many images and video on the media server.
First Jérémie Beyou and Morgan Lagravière (both FRA) Charal, finished 0915hrs UTC

Finally Beyou enjoys the sweet taste of victory again as co-skipper, Lagravière 3-peats.

Elation was evident, the decompression immense, but relief was probably the underlying emotion for French skipper Jérémie Beyou when he crossed the finish line off Fort-de-France just before dawn to win the IMOCA division.

Whilst victory has been a long time coming again for the French ace who has suffered too many setbacks over recent years to win, that is not the case for super talented, sought-after co-skipper Morgan Lagravière who made history this morning as the first sailor to win the same class three times on successive editions of the Coffee Route race.

One of only five sailors to have won La Solitare du Figaro three times, Beyou leads one of the best resourced IMOCA programmes in the world, one which has always led the technology race and has delivered many podiums but he and the powerful black hulled IMOCA have struggled to win. He has finished on the podium many times but too often encountered issues which have compromised the result.

Typical was the last edition in 2023, sailing with Franck Cammas who has just extended his own Coffee Route record to five wins, they lost their masthead zero sail at the entry to the Trade Winds and then after leading the race could not keep pace, finishing fourth.