{"id":7396,"date":"2023-01-22T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2023-02-08T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:24:44","slug":"team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French skipper Kevin Escoffier led his Swiss-flagged Team Holcim-PRB to victory in leg one of The Ocean Race in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It marked the end of an intense and challenging opening to The Ocean Race &#8211; from storm force headwinds in the Mediterranean to fast downwind conditions in the Atlantic with tactical options around the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The Holcim-PRB team took the lead just before Gibraltar Strait and held on the rest of the way despite the strong pushes from 11th Hour Racing Team and Malizia.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, early on Saturday, Escoffier and his crew raced across the finish line on the waters off Mindelo, Cabo Verde, just after 02:01:59 UTC, completing an impressive performance on the first leg of the Race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The boat is great. Both upwind and downwind, reaching, we have always been fast,<\/em>\u201d Escoffier said. \u201c<em>I&#8217;m very happy to start like this. It was our first race together as a full crew and I don&#8217;t regret any of the the choices. They are all great and together we went for the win<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RACE REPORT - Leg 1 - 21\/01 | The Ocean Race\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9IV4D_SiLmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French skipper Kevin Escoffier led his Swiss-flagged Team Holcim-PRB to victory in leg one of The Ocean Race in the early hours of Saturday morning. It marked the end of an intense and challenging opening to The Ocean Race &#8211; from storm force headwinds in the Mediterranean to fast downwind conditions in the Atlantic with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en_news","category-en_newscast"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race - Guillaume Verdier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race - Guillaume Verdier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"French skipper Kevin Escoffier led his Swiss-flagged Team Holcim-PRB to victory in leg one of The Ocean Race in the early hours of Saturday morning. It marked the end of an intense and challenging opening to The Ocean Race &#8211; from storm force headwinds in the Mediterranean to fast downwind conditions in the Atlantic with [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Guillaume Verdier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-22T13:50:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-08T12:24:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"CT_LaColloc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"CT_LaColloc\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"CT_LaColloc\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9aba4f6da95a77059bc22b1d2cd1feee\"},\"headline\":\"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-22T13:50:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-08T12:24:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/\"},\"wordCount\":199,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Newscast\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/\",\"name\":\"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race - Guillaume Verdier\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-22T13:50:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-08T12:24:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9aba4f6da95a77059bc22b1d2cd1feee\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Accueil\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/\",\"name\":\"Guillaume Verdier\",\"description\":\"Architecture Navale\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9aba4f6da95a77059bc22b1d2cd1feee\",\"name\":\"CT_LaColloc\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bd8e0fcb03a61641e39f6d08593c2e73?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bd8e0fcb03a61641e39f6d08593c2e73?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"CT_LaColloc\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/author\/al_lacolloc\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race - Guillaume Verdier","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race - Guillaume Verdier","og_description":"French skipper Kevin Escoffier led his Swiss-flagged Team Holcim-PRB to victory in leg one of The Ocean Race in the early hours of Saturday morning. It marked the end of an intense and challenging opening to The Ocean Race &#8211; from storm force headwinds in the Mediterranean to fast downwind conditions in the Atlantic with [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/","og_site_name":"Guillaume Verdier","article_published_time":"2023-01-22T13:50:12+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-08T12:24:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"CT_LaColloc","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"CT_LaColloc","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/"},"author":{"name":"CT_LaColloc","@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9aba4f6da95a77059bc22b1d2cd1feee"},"headline":"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race","datePublished":"2023-01-22T13:50:12+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-08T12:24:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/"},"wordCount":199,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg","articleSection":["News","Newscast"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/","url":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/","name":"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race - Guillaume Verdier","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg","datePublished":"2023-01-22T13:50:12+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-08T12:24:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9aba4f6da95a77059bc22b1d2cd1feee"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220926_ES_Holcim-PRB_935.jpg","width":1200,"height":800},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/team-holcim-prb-lead-into-cabo-verde-to-win-leg-one-of-the-ocean-race\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Accueil","item":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Team Holcim-PRB lead into Cabo Verde to win Leg One of The Ocean Race"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/","name":"Guillaume Verdier","description":"Architecture Navale","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9aba4f6da95a77059bc22b1d2cd1feee","name":"CT_LaColloc","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bd8e0fcb03a61641e39f6d08593c2e73?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bd8e0fcb03a61641e39f6d08593c2e73?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"CT_LaColloc"},"url":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/author\/al_lacolloc\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7523,"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions\/7523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guillaumeverdier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}