Please select your home edition
Final sprint for the Jules Verne Trophy record - Sodebo crosses equator to the northern hemisphere
Submitted by Sail-World, showing footage from 2026
This video was used in a news article:

Final sprint for the Jules Verne Trophy record
by Mark Jardine / Team Sodebo
This Monday, January 19th, at 4:20 AM, Thomas Coville, Benjamin Schwartz, Frédéric Denis, Pierre Leboucher, Léonard Legrand, Guillaume Pirouelle, and Nicolas Troussel on Sodebo Ultim 3 crossed the equator and are back in the northern hemisphere.This Monday, January 19th, at 4:20 AM, Thomas Coville, Benjamin Schwartz, Frédéric Denis, Pierre Leboucher, Léonard Legrand, Guillaume Pirouelle, and Nicolas Troussel on Sodebo Ultim 3 crossed the equator and are back in the northern hemisphere.Posted 19 Jan 2026