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2002 Route du Rhum
Event title
Name	2002 Route du Rhum
Edition	7th Edition
Sponsor	La Banque Postale
Host	Pen Duick SAS
Event details
Start location	St Malo (FRA)
Finish location	Guadeloupe
Course	Solo Non-Stop Transatlantic Race
Dates	Starts 2002
Yachts	58 Boats
Competitors
Competitors	58 Sailors
Competing nations	AUS 1, BEL 1, CAN 1, FRA 48,GBR 4, ITA 1 SUI 2
Results
Line honours	Michel Desjoyeaux - Géant
Classes
Class 1	ORMA 60
Class 2	Multi
Class 3	IMOCA 60
Class 4	Class 1 Mono
Class 5	Class 2 Mono
Class 6	Class 3 Mono
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The Route du Rhum is a single person transatlantic race the 2002 race was the 7th edition and had seven classes^[1] with 58 boats taking part.^[2]

Results

ORMA 60 Multihulls

Pos	Sail No.	Boat Name	Year	Designer	Name / Nationality		Finish Time	Delta %	Speed Rhum	Ref.
1		Géant	2002	VPLP	Michel Desjoyeaux (FRA)	m	13d 07h 53m 00s	0%	11.07
2		Biscuit La Trinitaine	Aug. 1998	Nigel Irens	Marc Guillemot (FRA)	m	13d 19h 36m 18s	3.66%	10.68
3		Banque Populaire IV	Mar. 2002	Nigel Irens Cabaret	Lalou Roucayrol (FRA)	m	14d 07h 01m 00s	7.23%	10.33
RET		Groupama	1998	VPLP	Franck Cammas (FRA)	m	Day 1 - Capsized towed to port			^[3]^[4]
RET		Banque Covefi	1990	Nigel Irens	Bertrand de Broc (FRA)	m	Day 2 - Retired due to fatigue
RET		TIM	May. 2001	VPLP	Giovanni Soldini (ITA)	m
RET		Gitana X	Jun. 2002	Ollier McLane Schmidt	Lionel Lemonchois (FRA)	m
RET		Bayer Cropscience	Mar. 2002	Nigel Irens Cabaret	Fred Le Peutrec (FRA)	m
RET		Eure & Loir - Lorénove	1994	Nigel Irens	Francis Joyon (FRA)	m
RET		Rexona Men	1990	VPLP	Yvan Bourgnon (SUI)	m
RET		Sopra Group	Apr. 2002	Lombard	Philippe Monnet (FRA)	m
RET		Fujifilm	2001	Nigel Irens Marc Lombard	Loïck Peyron (FRA)	m
RET		Sodebo	0		Thomas Coville (FRA)	m
RET		Foncia	Apr. 2002	VPLP	Alain Gautier (FRA)	m
RET		Belgacom	2001	VPLP	Jean-Luc Nélias (FRA)	m
RET		Sergio Tacchini	2001	Nigel Irens Marc Lombard	Karine Fauconnier (FRA)	f
RET		Bonduelle	Sept. 2000	VPLP	Jean Le Cam (FRA)	m	Day 1 - Collision retired to port
RET	23	Techno Marine	1997	VPLP	Stève Ravussin (FRA)	m

Multihulls

IMOCA 60

Pos	Sail No.	Boat Name	Year	Name / Nationality	Finish Time	Delta %	Speed	Distance
1	888	Kingfisher	2000	Ellen MacArthur (GBR)	13d 13h 31m 47s	0%	10.88 / 0	0
2		Ecover (1)	1998	Mike Golding (GBR)	13d 22h 49m 35s	2.86%	10.58 / 0	0
3		Arcelor-Dunkerque	1998	Joé Seeten (FRA)	16d 00h 51m 51s	18.23%	9.2 / 0	0
4		Sill	1999	Roland Jourdain (FRA)	16d 05h 14m 28s	19.57%	9.1 / 0	0
5		L'Héeautontimorouménos	1997	Antoine Koch (FRA)	17d 13h 17m 28s	29.42%	8.41 / 0	0
6		Garnier	1996	Patrick de Radiguès (BEL)	18d 00h 20m 04s	32.81%	8.19 / 0	0
7		60 ème Sud	1992	Didier Munduteguy (FRA)	20d 05h 21m 58s	49.1%	7.3 / 0	0
8		UUDS	1992 Finot	Miranda Merron (GBR)	20d 22h 33m 57s	54.38%	7.05 / 0	0
9		Tir Groupé - Montres Yema	1989	Mike Birch (CAN)	21d 11h 31m 08s	58.36%	6.87 / 0	0
10		Millimages Gédéon	1992	Patrick Favre (FRA)	22d 21h 30m 00s	68.8%	6.45 / 0	0
11		Dinan Pays d'entreprises	1992	Frédéric Lescot (FRA)	23d 13h 04m 43s	73.59%	6.27 / 0	0
12		Ciments St Laurent Océan	1990	Georges Leblanc (FRA)	24d 06h 12m 54s	78.85%	6.08 / 0	0
DNF		VMI	1999	Sébastien Josse (FRA)	Abandon
DNF		La rage de vivre	1998	Loïc Pochet (FRA)	Abandon
DNF		Temenos	1998	Dominique Wavre (SUI)	Abandon
DNF		Virbac (0)	2000	Jean-Pierre Dick (FRA)	Abandon
DNF		Leasecom	2002	Elie Canivenc (FRA)	Abandon