Sixty-year-old Frenchman Francis Joyon and his five-man crew smashed the round-the-world sailing record on Thursday Jan 26,2017, becoming the first team to circumnavigate the globe without assistance in 40 days.
Joyon crossed the finish line off the French island of Ouessant just before 9am local time, shaving four days off the previous record.
His time of 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds bettered Loick Peyron's record of 45 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes and 53 seconds, set in 2012.
The Jules Verne Trophy, which is named after the writer's famous novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, is open to any type of boats and takes skippers around the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn.
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