Goodchild misses IMOCA podium by 11 minutes at the end of Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe

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Goodchild misses IMOCA podium by 11 minutes at the end of Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe

by La Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe 12 Nov 19:07 GMT 12 November 2026

For Franco-Brit Sam Goodchild, skipper of MACIF Santé Prevoyance, fourth place into Guadeloupe this morning concluded what proved to be a very challenging Route du Rhum - Destination Gudeloupe, suffering too many technical problems to be able to operate at close to maximum potential.

Having started as favourite to win the IMOCA class, Goodchild is disappointed to have lost touch with race winner Corentin Horeau so early in the race when he took a better tactical option to the south of Ireland. But the French skipper ran away from the whole fleet. It is the technical problems which - he says - ran one after another last Sunday which cost him a place on the podium.

And even then, racing with no J2, a port foil which stopped working last Sunday and having had to sail for a couple of days with a reefed main before he could repair a detatched tack cringle, he still pulled back more than 50 miles to finish only 11 minutes behind Elodie Bonafous (Association Petits Princes - Quéguiner) who he shared the pontoon this morning.

Sam Goodchild - Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe 2026 - photo © Vincent Curutchet / Factstory

Sam Goodchild - Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe 2026 - photo © Vincent Curutchet / Factstory

Besides, Sam is thankful to have finished considering that two of his main rivals Jérémie Beyou (Charal) and Ambrogio Beccaria (Allagrande Mapei) had to withdraw because of injuries. And Goodchild's 2022 and 2018 races both ended prematurely, sustaining a facial injury at the start of the last edition in Ocean Fifty and suffering a dismasting eight years ago

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