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Fréderic Duthil wins the fourth and final leg of the 38th edition of La Solitiare Afflelou Le Figaro between La Coruña and Les Sables d’Olonne.
The skipper of Distinxion, crossed the finish line at 02h20m10s this morning and covered the 340 mile course in 1 day 11 hours, 20 minutes and 10 seconds at an average 9.62 knots.
Duthil won the Prologue race, the first leg and comes in 2nd (50 seconds behind Michel Desjoyeaux) on the 2nd leg and 8th on the 3rd leg (2 hours and 9 minutes behind Corentin Douguet). This is the fourth time the former windsurf champion competes in La Solitaire and it is his best performance to date.
Just before the start on Sunday morning in la Coruña, Duthil declared, “This is my kind of race! It is going to be wet but fun…it will be short, a sprint…well more like a marathon after 30 hours! I am happy about the conditions we are going to get; it is the kind that I go pretty fast on. So that is a good sign. I am not looking at the overall rankings anymore. My objective is to win the leg and forget about anything that has happened up until now.” Those words could well have been a premonition.
