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Sailing – Groupama 3 trimaran wins Marseilles –Carthage race, sets new trans-Mediterranean record

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The trimaran Groupama 3, led by the French skipper Franck Cammas, won the Carthage Marseilles race setting a new trans-Mediterranean record. Cammas and his seven men crew sailed the 458 miles separating both cities in 17 hours 8 minutes and 23 seconds, beating Bruno Peyron’s 2004 record in 17 hours 56’, 33’.

Setting out from Marseilles on May 15 at 8:19 am (Tunisian time), the trimaran crossed the finishing line in Sidi Bou Said on Saturday May 16 at 1:27 pm (Tunisian time).

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