Jérémie Beyou wins La Solitaire du Figaro - Eric Bompard Cachemire
by Service de presse La Solitaire du Figaro 2 Jul 2014 12:51 BST
1 July 2014
Beyou wins Leg 4 to secure third overall La Solitaire title
At 11h 20m 50s (French time, 09h 20m 50s UTC) Jérémie Beyou (Maître Coq) crossed the finish of the fourth and final stage of La Solitaire du Figaro-Eric Bompard cachemire off Cherbourg-Octeville to win the leg from Les Sables d'Olonne and also secure his third overall victory over his 14 participations. It is Beyou's seventh leg win and he wins the race overall by an accumulated margin of 17 minutes and 56 seconds over Corentin Horeau (Bretagne Credit Mutuel Performance) and 25 mins and 47 secs over Charlie Dalin (Normandy Elite Team).
Beyou finished with a flourish, after three successive third places into Plymouth, Roscoff and Les Sables d'Olonne, the 38 years old skipper not only kept his key rivals in check to the finish line, but won just 54 seconds ahead of second placed Adrien Hardy (AGIR Recouvrement) and 1 minute and 53 seconds ahead of third placed Corentin Douguet (Un Maillot pour La Vie).
Beyou joins an exclusive group of three French skippers to have won the race three times: Philippe Poupon, Michel Desjoyeaux and Jean Le Cam.
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