Portrait of IMOCA skipper Alan Roura, set to compete in The Ocean Race Europe 2025 with his new title sponsor AMAALA, photographed in Lorient in June 2025. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
Team Amaala

Alan Roura

Skipper

Switzerland

Alan Roura has sailed from an early age. After spending his childhood at sea, on Lake Geneva and sailing around the world with his family for eleven years, he took part in his first major race at only 20 years old.

Mini Transat, Route du Rhum, Transat Jacques Vabre… Alan Roura has competed in (almost) everything and soon practiced offshore racing. Before tackling the holy grail of the sport: the Vendee Globe 2016, which he finished in 12th position, becoming the youngest skipper in history to finish the race, at only 23 years old.

Four years later, he was still the youngest at the start of the ninth edition, which he finished in 17th position. Not spared by technical issues, he did finish his second consecutive solo circumnavigation, after 95 days of painful racing, but having learned many lessons, and ready for the third participation, already in the pipeline.

At 32 years old, the triple finisher of the Everest of the Seas and holder of the North Atlantic record, the Genevan has set himself even higher goals. Armed with his experience, a new maturity, and driven by a desire to work as part of a team, the Swiss sailor aspires to found the Swiss national offshore racing team, with the ambition of competing among the favorites at the helm of an ever more powerful boat. With a head still full of dreams and always a smile on his face.


  • Alan Roura has sailed from an early age. After spending his childhood at sea, on Lake Geneva and sailing around the world with his family for eleven years, he took part in his first major race at only 20 years old.

    Mini Transat, Route du Rhum, Transat Jacques Vabre… Alan Roura has competed in (almost) everything and soon practiced offshore racing. Before tackling the holy grail of the sport: the Vendee Globe 2016, which he finished in 12th position, becoming the youngest skipper in history to finish the race, at only 23 years old.

    Four years later, he was still the youngest at the start of the ninth edition, which he finished in 17th position. Not spared by technical issues, he did finish his second consecutive solo circumnavigation, after 95 days of painful racing, but having learned many lessons, and ready for the third participation, already in the pipeline.

    At 32 years old, the triple finisher of the Everest of the Seas and holder of the North Atlantic record, the Genevan has set himself even higher goals. Armed with his experience, a new maturity, and driven by a desire to work as part of a team, the Swiss sailor aspires to found the Swiss national offshore racing team, with the ambition of competing among the favorites at the helm of an ever more powerful boat. With a head still full of dreams and always a smile on his face.