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2009 Imoca World Championship

1.	Marc Guillemot	362pts
2.	Michel Desjoyeaux	357pts
3.	Armel Le Cleach	338pts
4.	Samantha Davies	321pts
5.	Vincent Riou	304pts
6.	Dee Caffari	295pts
7.	Arnaud Boissières	292pts
8.	Brian Thompson	281pts
9.	Steve White	250pts
10.	Richard Wilson	220pts
11.	Raphaël Dinelli	210pts
12.	Norbert Sedlacek	200pts
13.	Kito De Pavant	59pts
14.	Loïck Peyron	52pts
15.	Yann Eliès	44pts
16.	Roland Jourdain	39pts
17.	Mike Golding	36pts
18.	Jérémie Beyou	33pts
19.	Yannick Bestaven	32pts
20.	Alex Pella	30pts
21.	Pachi Rivero	18pts
22.	Guillermo Altadill	16pts
23.	Jean-Pierre Dick	8pts
24.	Marc Thiercelin	4pts
25.	Unai Basurko	0pts
26.	Jean-Baptiste Dejeanty	0pts
27.	Derek Hatfield	0pts
28.	Sébastien Josse	0pts
29.	Jean Le Cam	0pts
30.	Jonathan Malbon	0pts
31.	Bernard Stamm	0pts
32.	Alex Thomson	0pts
33.	Dominique Wavre	0pts

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EUROPEAN PRO TOUR TO FINISH IN BREST & THE TRANSAT JACQUES VABRE IN COSTA RICA

On the 28^th August 2009 The European Pro Tour, a race specifically for IMOCA Open 60s, will start from Istanbul. This new crewed race will finish in Brest at the end of September 2009. This was announced at the Paris Boat Show last Friday 12^th December by the mayor of Brest and Mr Cumali Varer who is in charge of Olay Nautic, the race organisers. The definitive route and partners of this new race will be announced at the end of March 2009, but will include a stop-over in Barcelona. There will also be a stopover on the French Riviera, most likely to be Nice, and a stopover in the UK will complete the overall structure of the race.

The competitors will then have a month to get to Le Havre for the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre. The new destination, Puerto Limon in Costa Rica was also announced by the organisers Penduick at the Paris Boat Show. The 2009 IMOCA race calendar is almost complete, details of which will be announced on Friday 9th January at the London International Boat Show at ExCel.