Barcelona World Race 2007-2008

Barcelona World Race 2007
www.barcelonaworldrace.com - Übersicht

10 March 2008
A night of celebration, next stop 2010..
Zielliste und PR-Daten

The prizegiving ceremony for the 18 skippers of the first edition of the Barcelona World Race came to a conclusion on Saturday night (8.3.07) after a spectacular and emotional hour-long ceremony in the presence of the Mayor of Barcelona Jordi Hereu at the Auditorium of the Barcelona Forum.

The 18 skippers were applauded on stage by a 2,500-strong audience to receive their unique trophies designed by Basque artist Martin Azua and their share of the ?411,000 prize fund. Catalonian skipper Albert Bargues, Educacion Sin Fronteras, received a standing ovation from the home crowd after he dedicated their race to the 80 million children worldwide who still do not receive any formal education. Pre-race favourites Vincent Riou and Sébastien Josse received a big cheer, some small compensation for being forced to retire from the race just before Cape of Good Hope, and looked genuinely pleased by the audience's appreciation. The Spanish pairing of Javier Sansó and Pachi Rivero naturally received the biggest cheer of the evening as this popular duo took to the stage to receive their trophies.

The prizegiving ceremony brings to a close the first edition of the double-handed Barcelona World Race. The second edition of the race starts winter 2010.

Paprec-Virbac 2 skipper, Jean-Pierre Dick:
From the first day this race was announced the concept appealed for Damian and me. It is a great race - physically hard, demanding teamwork - these are the two big qualities of this race. We are very happy to put our names to the first edition of the race. Thanks to Damian for being by my side, thanks to Barcelona, thanks to OC Events and Mark Turner and Ellen MacArthur - a lot of work to make this race happen, and thanks Paprec-Virbac.

Paprec-Virbac 2 co-skipper, Damian Foxall:
Huge thanks to a team that I was privileged to join last year. Thanks very much to all the other boats - very hard competition and we're happy to win. Thanks to everyone who followed us from all around the world - it was an amazing experience.

Hugo Boss skipper, Alex Thomson:
Thank you very much to Barcelona for hosting the event and congratulations to the organisers. This has been the hardest race I've done but also fun as well. Thank you to my sponsor Hugo Boss but my biggest thanks goes to my partner Andrew Cape.

The prizegiving auditorium
© Agustí Argelich http://media.barcelonaworldrace.com

Skippers on stage at the prizegiving
© Agustí Argelich http://media.barcelonaworldrace.com

Jean-Pierre Dick Damian Foxall, winners of Barcelona World Race
© Joan Roca

Alex Thomson and Andrew Cape, 2nd place
© Joan Roca http://www.theirwebsite.com/

FINAL RESULTS - BARCELONA WORLD RACE
Pstn/boat/skippers/elapsed time
1st / Paprec-Virbac 2 / Jean-Pierre Dick (FRA) Damian Foxall (IRE) / 92d 9h 49m 49s
2nd / Hugo Boss / Alex Thomson (GBR) Andrew Cape (AUS) / 94d 17h 34m 57s
3rd / Temenos II / Dominique Wavre (SUI) Michèle Paret (FRA) / 98d 6h 9m 10s
4th / Mutua Madrilena / Javier Sanso (ESP) Pachi Rivero (ESP) / 99d 12h 18m 40s
5th / Educacion Sin Fronteras / Servane Escoffier (FRA) Albert Bargués (ESP) / 108d 18h 55m 2s

RET / PRB / Vincent Riou (FRA) Sébastien Josse (FRA) / 8.12.07 after 28 days of racing loses top 3 metres of mast
RET / Delta Dore / Jéremie Beyou (FRA) Sidney Gavignet (FRA) / 11.12.07 after 31 days of racing dismasts
RET / Estrella Damm / Guillermo Altadill (ESP) Jonathan McKee (USA) / 14.12.07 on day 34 citing rudder and technical problems
RET / Veolia Environnement / Roland Jourdain (FRA) Jean-Luc Nélias (FRA) / 17.12.07 after 37 days of racing dismasts

STAGE WINNERS - BARCELONA WORLD RACE
Gate / winning boat
Gate 1 - Start to Gibraltar: Paprec-Virbac 2
Gate 2 - Gibraltar to Canary Islands : Delta Dore
Gate 3 - Canary Islands to Fernando de Noronha : PRB
Gate 4 - Fernando de Noronha to Cape of Good Hope : Hugo Boss
Gate 5 - Cape of Good Hope to Cook Strait (NZ) : Paprec-Virbac 2
Gate 6 - Cook Strait to Cape Horn : Mutua Madrilena
Gate 7 - Cape Horn to Fernando de Noronha : Temenos II
Gate 8 - Fernando de Noronha to Gibraltar : Temenos II
Gate 9 - Gibraltar to Barcelona : Temenos II

MEDIA PRIZES- BARCELONA WORLD RACE
Leg 1 : PRB for the quality of their image archive
Leg 2 : Delta Dore for the quality of their written messages and special mention for their 'no wind' video
Leg 3 : Estrella Damm for the quality of their written messages
Leg 4 : Hugo Boss for the quality of their images on deck and the joy of achievement they transmitted at the video conference for their 24hr record
Leg 5 : Veolia Environnement for the quality of their videos providing high entertainment value and the stunning images of 'Veolia at the Kerguelen Islands'
Leg 6 : Paprec Virbac 2 for the quality of their videos 'Icebergs' and 'Repairing the rudder'
Leg 7 : Mutua Madrileña for their joy and emotion at the video conference when crossing Cape Horn
Leg 8 : Educación Sin Fronteras for their very clear, sincere and articulate explanations on all the aspects of their adventure, and particularly in this final stages of the race
Leg 9 : Temenos II for the outstanding quality and quantity of their photo material

Barcelona World Race in numbers : sporting and key media numbers
Here are some of the sporting and key media numbers that reflect the highs and lows of the race both on and off the water.

Off the water:
500,000 spectators at start / 650 spectator boats on the water
489,000 visitors through the Race Village and dockside
-part TV documentary series broadcast on 34 international networks in over 137 countries reaching 717.5 million homes
26 mins of coverage broadcast on CNN indexsail shown in 187.8 million homes in 124 countries
25 mins programme on Eurosport
22 mins programme on NTV Germany
600 TV news items with over 18.5 hours of airtime (France, UK, Spain and NZ)
105 radio news items (France, UK, Spain)
3,000+ articles in printed media worldwide
31,557 hours of video viewed online
26,123 listeners to live video conferences
941 hours of audio listened to via the website
2.86 million visits of official website, average 4 mins per visit
470,000 visits to 3D Race Viewer
650,000 visits to 2D Race Viewer
10,500 active players of Live Skipper
11,698 photos downloaded from Online Media Centre

On the water:
9 teams / 18 skippers
7 different nationalities
36 circumnavigations between them and over 2 million nautical miles
22 Whitbread and Volvo Ocean Race participations
9 Vendée Globe participations and 9 America's Cup participations
25,000 miles around the globe

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