Loïs Berrehar and Charlotte Yven (Skipper MACIF) win the Alex Picot Challenge

On Brittany’s Bay of Concarneau Loïs Berrehar and Charlotte Yven (Skipper MACIF) won the Alex Picot Challenge today, the prologue for the Transat Paprec which starts next Sunday. The 6.5 nautical mile race was named after Alex Picot who tragically lost his life along with colleague François Naveilhan at the finish of the Route du Rhum Destination Guadeloupe last Autumn.

The eleven mixed duos who will race the 16th edition of the Transat Paprec from next Sunday had a spirited, close race in good breeze.
“The conditions were good for the Challenge Alex Picot. The eleven competing duos had fun in this format, with a few maneuvers to do. The fleet was very close. Everything went well”, commented Francis Le Goff, race director of the Transat Paprec.

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Loïs Berrehar and Charlotte Yven (Skipper MACIF) triumphed in the Challenge Alex Picot. “It went well, it was great. It was a great race with great conditions to get into it. There was plenty to have fun and get wet. We made some nice edges. We are happy. We feel good on board, the boat is ready, on top. It's pretty cool to start like that, ”commented Charlotte Yven. And the young duo were keen to disprove the superstition that by winning the prologue they might jinx their race across the Atlantic.

"We thought we should break the superstition," laughs Charlotte Yven.

“Two years ago, I won the Prologue. On the transat, I was in the southern group and it didn't get through. But in general, the same situation does not repeat itself so I think it is a good omen, ”says Loïs Berrehar.

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Classement of the "Challenge Alex Picot" : 
1 - Skipper Macif (Loïs Berrehar and Charlotte Yven) 13h 45min 26s
2 - EDENRED (Basile Bourgnon and Violette Dorange) 13h 45min 46s
3 - Région Bretagne - CMB Performance (Gaston Morvan and Anne-Claire Le Berre) 13h46min 23s
4 - Cap Ingelec (Camille Bertel and Pierre Leboucher) 13h 46min 26s 
5 - Région Normandie (Guillaume Pirouelle and Sophie Faguet) 13h 47min 08s
6 - Ageas - Ballay - Cerfrance - Baie de Saint-Brieuc (Maël Garnier and Julia Courtois) 13h 47min 15s
7 - Région Bretagne - CMB Océane (Chloé Le Bars and Hugo Dhallenne) 13h 47min 47s
8 - Mutuelle Bleue (Corentin Horeau and Pauline Courtois) 13h 47min 55s
9 - Groupe Helios (Arnaud Machado and Lucie Queruel) 13h 48min 04s
10 - Race for Science - Verder (Edouard Golbery and Alicia de Pfyffer) 13h 49min 57s
11 - MonAtoutEnergie.fr (Arthur Hubert and Colombe Julia) 13h 50min 47s