On this Monday, July 9th, some eight months after the title was revealed Iker Martínez and Xabi Fernández finally picked up the prize awarded to them as the ISAF Rolex World Sailors of the Year 2011 at a ceremony held in Madrid at the headquarters of Rolex Spain.
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The Volvo Ocean Race finished in Galway (Ireland) yesterday with the final in-port race in this edition of the competition. Iker Martínez and his “Telefónica” bid farewell to the racing fans with a podium finish, picking up the third place in the in-port race.
Aims reached and still to ...
Tomorrow will be the final opportunity to see the boats competing in the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 together on the water. At 12:00 UTC (13:00 local time) the crews will be racing the tenth and final in-port race of the eleventh edition of the round the world regatta. ...
Almost nine months after starting the round the world race “Telefónica” faced the final leg: 550 miles which would be crucial in terms of the final overall standings for the race. Iker Martínez looks back over the leg which didn't finish how he or Team Telefónica wanted it to, ...
Almost two in the morning in Galway and and the dash to the Irish port which took 1 day, 13 hours, 57 minutes and 33 seconds for “Telefónica” means that the offshore sailing for the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 has drawn to a close. In a tight bunch, as ...
The 24 hours of racing mark on this final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 has been hit and Spain's "Telefónica" is sticking with the fleet frontrunners in a veritable greyhound dash whose podium formation will only be decided at the finishing line in Galway (Ireland). At 14:00 ...
Seven months after the start at Alicante, Spain, the ninth and final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 kicked off today in Lorient, in Brittany, France, with Spanish boat “Telefónica” starting off on a very good footing indeed. Iker Martínez and his crew have been leading the fleet ...
Tomorrow, Sunday, sees the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race kick off in the French port of Lorient, taking the fleet to the Irish city of Galway after today's penultimate in-port race in this edition of the regatta. In the end it was French boat “Groupama” which scooped ...
?Two weeks after finishing one of the tightest and toughest legs of the round the world regatta, the six Volvo Open 70s are now preparing to take on the penultimate in-port race. There's absolutely no doubt that Iker Martínez's “Telefónica” will be fighting tooth and nail to scoop the ...
This coming Sunday, July 1st, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet will be hearing the sound of the starting horn for the start of the ninth and final leg in the race, connecting the ports of Lorient (France) and Galway (Ireland). This is the defining leg of this Volvo Ocean ...
5 days, 8 hours, 40 minutes and 26 seconds after setting off from Lisbon, “Telefónica” crossed the finishing line of the eighth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race in Lorient (France) at 22:40 local time (20:40 UTC). “We had a very big problem and we're all here safely so ...
Skipper Iker Martínez explains how is the situation on board "Telefónica" and tells us what has happened in the last 24 hours
(On the first broken rudder on Thursday 14th June at approximately 12:00 UTC)
It's been a tricky day and night for “Telefónica”. We've suffered a broken rudder. First ...
At 20:00 UTC yesterday, 14th June, having solved the issue of a broken starboard rudder, “Telefónica” was back in the lead of the eighth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. However, the most difficult decision was still to come: the final gybe to France: “The boats gybing earlier ...
Information at 14.00 UTC. Despite beating the speed record for this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race for the fourth time this afternoon, notching up a 24 hour run of 564 nautical miles, "Telefónica" was forced to slow down considerably during approximately an hour due to a broken ...
What a final stretch! As expected, the storm which swallowed up the fleet has also provided the necessary ingredients for a speed record for this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. “Telefónica” has been sailing at speeds above 22 knots since midday yesterday. The news came in this ...
The islands of the Azores have now been put astern by "Telefónica" after a night of very hard work in which the Spanish boat took back the lead. As day broke the crew headed up by Iker Martínez was the first in the fleet to put the only obligatory ...
“Telefónica” has been embroiled in a no holds barred battle for the Azores, the obligatory waypoint on this eighth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race over the past 24 hours. Having taken the lead in Atlantic waters, the Spanish boat saw the French entry move ahead as the boats ...
?The first 24 hours of the eighth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race have gone well for “Telefónica” with the boat moving into the lead of the leg with an advantage of almost two miles on second-placed "Groupama". The boats are on a southeasterly course in search of the ...
The eighth and penultimate leg of the Volvo Ocean Race is underway, kicking off today in Lisbon, Portugal at 12:00 UTC with 11 knots of northwesterly breeze. There are 1,940 nautical miles ahead for the crews, taking them to Brittany in France and the town of Lorient, with an ...
19 knots of breeze were blowing in the River Tajo today as the tide began to come in, at the predicted time of 12:00 UTC. That's when the eighth inshore race so far of the Volvo Ocean Race kicked off. It took place in Lisbon with a course ...
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