Sam Goodchild named IMOCA Globe Series Champion
Goodchild had a dominant year, including racing with Biotherm during The Ocean Race Europe 2025
British sailor Sam Goodchild has won the IMOCA Globe Series, awarded annually to the sailor accumulating the most ranking points over a series of event. It is his second victory in three years.
The 36-year-old skipper of MACIF Santé Prévoyance, who hails from Falmouth in Cornwall, started by winning the season-opening fully-crewed Course des Caps. He followed that by sailing as navigator on all but one of the five legs of The Ocean Race Europe on board Paul Meilhat’s winning boat Biotherm.
Then, alongside French sailor Loïs Berrehar, Sam Goodchild won the Défi Azimut-Lorient Agglomération 48 Hours, before concluding a busy year with third place in the Transat Café L’OR - Le Havre Normandie, again with Berrehar.
It’s been a stunning all-round performance and it leaves Goodchild nearly 29 points clear at the top of the 2025 IMOCA Globe Series with 383.75 points. In second place is the Transat Café L’OR winner and skipper of Charal, Jérémie Beyou on 355 points, with the Rolex Female Sailor of the Year, Justine Mettraux of Switzerland, skipper of Teamwork-Team SNEF, in third with 319.50 points.
Both Beyou and Mettraux are veterans of The Ocean Race, and Mettraux also competed in The Ocean Race Eutope this summer on Team Malizia. Ambrogio Beccaria and Francesca Clapcich are other familiar names to fans of The Ocean Race who ranked fourth and fifth repectively.
During The Ocean Race Europe, Goodchild played a key role alongside skipper Paul Meilhat in a Biotherm crew that produced an impressively dominant display in a tough five-leg race.
“That was another highlight – joining Biotherm and Paul and knowing we had the tools to do a decent job and give some of the top guys a hard time,” explained Goodchild. “And then it just never stopped getting better really, which was not what we thought would happen, and it was amazing and good fun to be part of it, again with a bunch of good people on a great boat.”
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