{"id":81866,"date":"2018-06-08T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speakersacademy.com\/speaker\/yvan-bourgnon\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:03:05","slug":"yvan-bourgnon","status":"publish","type":"sa_speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.speakersacademy.com\/en\/speaker\/yvan-bourgnon\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvan Bourgnon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born on July 6, 1971, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Yvan Bourgnon’s love story with the sea dates back to his earliest childhood. At the age of 8, he traveled around the world with his parents for four years! At 13, his family settled in Saint Br\u00e9vin in Brittany. It was only a few years later, after completing his studies, that Yvan decided to pursue his passion: sailing. In 1995, he achieved an unmatched triple: the Mini-Fastnet, the “Transgascogne,” and above all, the Mini-Transat. Yvan Bourgnon, a young man endowed with numerous technical and tactical qualities, then went on to achieve victories and set records. Alongside his older brother Laurent, he won the Transat Jacques Vabres in 1997. In the same race in 1999, they finished in third place after a mishap with a float that forced them to make a brief stop in Saint Barth\u00e9lemy. In 2000, he set the record for the greatest distance ever covered by a crew in 24 hours (625.34 nautical miles) on a 60-foot trimaran during the Transat Qu\u00e9bec \u2013 Saint Malo, also securing the third step of the podium. In 2001, during the Challenge Mondial Assistance, Yvan had a spectacular race. Indeed, he held the first place for the first 10 days of the race before finishing in fourth place. That same year, he set the record for the Channel Challenge in crew in 2h 14mn and 55s. Brave, in 2002 during the Route du Rhum, after capsizing, Yvan stayed aboard for five days, refusing to abandon his overturned boat. On the family side, Yvan is the happy father of two little boys, Mathis and Timoth\u00e9e, aged 12 and 14. In 2006, Yvan broke the 24-hour record: 610 nautical miles with training sails, carrying 1 ton of equipment and experiencing a foil break at the 21st hour… Between 2013 and 2015, he completed the 1st solo non-habitable round-the-world trip without GPS. The challenge of the impossible in a few figures: 220 days at sea, 12 hours at the helm per day, 18 stages, 3 oceans crossed, 13 seas, 5,500 km traveled… an experience that demonstrated, among other things, that the essential work is done upstream and as a team, and that an accident is not a failure! His experience allowed him to affirm talents closely aligned with the values of the company:<\/p>\n