Five days after Desjoyeaux was the turn of Armel Le Cleac’h that conquered the second place flatly and in total solitude:
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Armel Le Cleac’h (FRA) arrival in Les Sables d’Oloone (FRA)
for the third place the things got much more complicated.
Marc Guillemot (Safran) crossed the Les Sables d’Olonne finish line this Sunday to clinch a hard won third place, even if to all intents and purposes he arrived almost two days after Sam Davies, one of the two girls of the fleet. This is because Guillemot received a time compensation of 82 hours for diverting from his course to assist in the evacuation of injured Yann Eliès 800 miles south of Australia in the Southern Ocean.
What makes everything even more epic is that, to complete his first Vendée Globe the skipper has had to sail for the final 1000 miles, since he was just to the NE of the Azores, with no keel. His keel dropped out of his boat on Monday 9th February and since then the skipper from La Trinité has had to sail really prudently. In the end his margin over Sam Davies, GBR, (Roxy) who gets fourth is 1h 19mins 25s. Incredible.
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The arrival of Sam Davies, who thought to be third but in the end was fourth.
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The arrival of Marc Guillemot, one of the heroes of this edition for having helped in the evacuation of injured Yann Eliès and covered the last 1000 miles with no keel
