A third place finish in the Retour à la Base race, along with points earned with Team Holcim-PRB see the British sailor on top of the ranking…
Sam Goodchild has had a very consistent 2023 season, allowing him to top the IMOCA Globe Series rankings.
His latest result – coming home this weekend in third place in the Retour à la Base race – puts him top of the table.
Goodchild opened the year racing with second-place finisher Team Holcim-PRB for much of The Ocean Race. Then he lined up in the Guyader Bermudes 1000, the Rolex Fastnet Race, the Défi Azimut 48 Hours and the Transat Jacques Vabre. Sailing alongside Antoine Koch in all but the Défi Azimut, he finished in third place in all of them.
“It’s better than any dream or anything I could imagine for sure,”Goodchild said of his IMOCA Globe Series title. “I always get asked ‘what are your expectations?’ Well, I never really put a number on it. You get on the startline and you try to win and only one person does. But, for sure, if you’d asked me at the beginning of the year how I thought I was going to finish, I wouldn’t have said on the podium.”
More of this story is available from Ed Gorman on the IMCOA site here
