Sailing-Reigning Vendee Globe Champion Dalin Dies at 42
- French sailor Charlie Dalin, winner of the 10th Vendée Globe, died at 42 on Thursday, organizers announced, following a long battle with cancer.
- Dalin kept his 2023 gastrointestinal cancer diagnosis private while completing the 2024-25 race in a record 64 days, 19 hours, nearly 10 days faster than the previous mark.
- His competitive career spanned two decades, transitioning from Figaro class racing to the IMOCA circuit before finishing second in the 2020-21 Vendée Globe edition.
- French President Emmanuel Macron called Dalin an 'extraordinary sailor,' while Vendée Globe president Alain Leboeuf said, 'Charlie leaves an indelible mark on the history of the Vendée Globe.'
- The Vendée Globe, held every four years, tests sailors over 24,000 nautical miles around South Africa, Australia, and South America; Dalin led the fleet for 42 days.
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On the pontoons of offshore racing ports, as in Concarneau, Finistère, the tributes to Charlie Dalin are increasing. On Thursday, June 11, the skipper was taken away by cancer at the age of 42.
Charlie Dalin, winner of the Vendée Globe 2024/2025, died in Quimper on the night from Wednesday to Thursday. The navigator had moved public opinion by revealing that he had won this solo tour of the world while fighting cancer. Eight months ago, he had told of his fight against TF1 cameras. - Charlie Dalin's disappearance: when the winner of the Vendée Globe evoked his illness on TF1 (Sports).
Sailing star Charlie Dalin died at the age of 42.
Sailing mourns one of his greatest stars. Charlie Dalin has lost the fight against his illness. In the past "Vendée Globe" he brilliantly set a record time.
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