Frenchmen Michel Desjoyeaux has sailed into the record books by winning the Vendee Globe solo around the world race for the second time.
It took Desjoyeaux 84 days, three hours, nine minutes and eight seconds to finish the race at 1611local time (1511GMT) and take the 150,000 euros (118,000 USD) first prize. His time smashed Vincent Riou's 2004 record of 87 days, 10 hours and he has become the first to win the Vendee twice. Skippers are tested to the limit during the gruelling race. Taking only twenty minutes sleep at a time, they first battle the Atlantic, then the iceberg strewn Southern Ocean, round Cape Horn and back through the Atlantic to the finish at Les Sables-d'Olonne on France's western coast.
