Morgan Lagravière (born 23 May 1987
in
Réunion
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) is a French professional sailor who was a member of the National Olympic squad before progressing into offshore sailing.
Sailing background
He comes from a dinghy sailing background from posium position the 420 Worlds he moved into the 49er class ending up as the reserve pair for the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
together with
Stéphane Christidis.
In 2014 he joined the Safran Sailing Team taking over from
Marc Guillemot after 2014
Route du Rhum
The Route du Rhum is a transatlantic single-handed yacht race, which takes place every four years in November. The course is between Saint Malo, Brittany, Metropolitan France and Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, overseas France. The first competiti ...
.
Since 5 March 2015, he has been the skipper of the 60-foot IMOCA Safran II, the first IMOCA to be fitted with hydrofoils. With the assistance of
Roland Jourdain
Roland Jourdain, often nicknamed "Bilou" is a French professional yachtsman, born on 28 April 1964 in Quimper. He is notably two-time winner of the Route du Rhum.
Race Result Highlights Round the World Races
DNF 2008–2009 Vendée Globe keel ...
, whose company Kairos manages the Safran project, he prepared to compete eighth edition of the
2016-2017 Vendée Globe on 6 November 2016. However, after 18 days of racing while in 4th place, he was forced to retire due to saffron damage sustained after hitting an unidentified floating object. After 12 years in the sport, Saffran pulled out of sailing sponsorship. He then tried to put together for the next Vendée Globe campaign, again with Roland Jourdain, but failed to secure the funding and ended up helping Isobel Joske IMOCA campaign. He got back into the figaro sailing and joined the Gitana team as a helm trimmer for there 2020/2021 Jules Verne record attempts.
Career highlights
Gallery
File:Morgan Lagravière (7).jpg,
File:Morgan Lagravière Vendée Figaro 2012 PL.JPG,
File:Morgan Lagravière Yannig Livory Figaro 2012.JPG,
File:Morgan Lagravière.jpg,
File:Vendée Globe 2016 - Morgan Lagravière (30844012396).jpg,
File:Morgan_Lagravière_(2).jpg,
File:Safran_II(1).jpg,
References
External links
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1987 births
Living people
People from Réunion
French male sailors (sport)
420 class sailors
49er class sailors
Figaro class sailors
IMOCA 60 class sailors
French Vendee Globe sailors
2016 Vendee Globe sailors
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