The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for sports and athletics. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.Find sources: "Thomas Ruyant" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Thomas Ruyant
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born (1981-05-24) 24 May 1981 (age 43)
Dunkirk

Thomas Ruyant (born 24 May 1981) is a French sailor who was born in Dunkirk in the Nord region.

He is an offshore sailor and competed in the 2020–2021 Vendée Globe IMOCA 60 onboard LinkedOut, named after a French employment charity.[1] Ruyant started the Vendée Globe 2020 on 8 November 2020 and crossed the finish line on 28 January 2021 at 05:42:01 UTC+1 in 4th place with an elapsed time of 80d 15h 22m 01s. Due to the time credits of Jean Le Cam and Boris Herrmann he was officially ranked in 6th place.[2] In 2021 he proved the potential of his boat winning the Transat Jacques Vabre together with Morgan Lagravière.[3]

Ruyant onboard his Mini Transat

References

  1. ^ "Thomas RUYANT". Vendée Globe.
  2. ^ "Ranking". Vendée Globe. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  3. ^ "News - LinkedOut winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre in Imoca! - Transat Jacques Vabre 2021 - Official website". 25 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.