Michel Desjoyeaux has won the ORMA 60 class in the Route du Rhum sailing his 60ft trimaran Geant. Desjoyeaux crossed the finish line yesterday evening ahead of Biscuits La Trinitaine (Ethypharm-Marc Guillemot) and Banque Populaire (Lalou Roucayrol.

In the Imoca 60 class Roland (Bilou) Jourdain and Franck-Yves Escoffier are expected to cross the finish line later today. Miranda Merron and Mike Birch in eighth and ninth positions respectively have approximately 1,000 miles to go, while in the Class 1 monohulls the sole remaining Bruno Reibel on Ville de Dinard lies 1713 nautical miles from victory.

Nick Moloney, leading the Class 2 monohulls has 637.1 nautical miles to the finish and is expected to cross the line on Wednesday or Thursday.

Regis Guillemot is continuing to storm the rankings in the Class 3 monohull category 944 nautical miles from glory, 655 nautical miles ahead of Passion Entreprendre of Jérome Thiriez.

Joé Seeten, Franck Yves Escoffier aboard Crepes Whaou!, is currently 111.2 nautical miles from Guadeloupe, and is set to win the Class 2 multihull with over 300 miles on current second placed Anne Caseneuve on Yachting-casino.com.

Positions 24 November 1500 GMT

Multihull 60 ORMA

1-Géant-Michel Desjoyeaux Finished

2-Biscuits La Trinitaine – Ethypharm-Marc Guillemot Finished

3-Banque Populaire-Lalou Roucayrol- 57.3

ABD-Fujifilm-Loick Peyron

ABD-Banque Covefi-Bertrand deBroc

ABD-Sergio Tacchini-Karine Fauconnier

ABD-Sopra Group-Philippe Monnet

ABD-Bayer CropSciences-Frederic Le Peutrec

ABD-Belgacom-Jean-Luc Nélias

ABD-Foncia-Alain Gautier

ABD-Groupama-Franck Cammas

ABD-Rexona Men-Yvan Bourgnon

ABD-Sodebo-Thomas Coville

ABD-TIM-Giovanni Soldini

ABD-TechnoMarine-Steve Ravussin

ABD-Gitana X-Lionel Lemonchois

ABD-Eure&Loir-Lorénove-Francis Joyon

ABD-Bonduelle-Jean Le Cam

Monohull 60 IMOCA

1-Kingfisher-Ellen McArthur Finished

2-Ecover-Mike Golding Finished

3-Arcelor-Dunkerque-Joé Seten-192.0 miles to finish

4-Sill-Roland Jourdain- 278.9

5-L’Heautontimoroumenos-Antoine Koch- 631.0

6-Garnier Belgium-Patrick De Radiguès- 641.0

7-60ème Sud-Didier Munduteguy- 946.6

8-Un Univers de Services-Miranda Merron-1061.7

9-Tir Groupé-Montres Yéma-Mike Birch-1228.5

10-Millimages-Gédéon-Patrick Favre-1310.1

11-Dinan Pays d’Entreprises-Frédéric Lescot-1380.6

12-Ciments St Laurent-Ocean-Georges Leblanc-1583.5

ABD Leasecom-Elie Canivenc-3164.8

ABD-Virbac-Jean Pierre Dick

ABD-VMI-Sébastien Josse

ABD-La Rage de Vivre-Loïck Pochet

ABD-Temenos-Dominique Wavre

Monohull Class 1

1-Ville de Dinard-Bruno Reibel-1768.8 miles to finish

ABD-Un Autre Regard Ensemble pour l’UNHCR-Nicolas Peitrequin

Monohull Class 2

1-Ashfield Healthcare-Nick Moloney-816.1 miles to finish

2-Florys-Luc Coquelin- 992.4

3-Branec III-Roger Langevin-1121.6

4-Mille Visages-Hervé Vachée-1282.6

5-Laiterie de Saint Malo-Clément Surtel-1303.3

6-Adecco Etoile Horizon-Bob Escoffier-1826.2

ABD-Apic A3S-Christophe Huchet

ABD-République Dominicaine-Yannick Bestaven

ABD-Défi Vendéen-J. F. Durand

Monohull Class 3

1-Storage Tek-Regis Guillemot- 1118.5 miles to finish

2-Passion Entreprendre-Jérôme Thiriez-1690.5

3-Grain de Soleil-Etienne Svilarich-1870.9

ABD-Hellomoto-Conrad Humphreys

ABD-Fantasy-Forest-Alain Grinda

Multihull Class 2

1-Crepes Whaou!-F. Y. Escofier-288.5 miles to finish

2-Yachting-casino.com-Anne Cazeneuve-605.9

3-Vaincre la mucoviscidose-Hervé Cleris-903.0

4-Région Archipel Guadeloupe-Claude Thelier-941.8

5-Lehning-Lapeyre-LPP-Blanchet-Gourbeyre-P.Y. Guennec-1535.9

ABD-E-Sat Tri Sélectif-Pascal Quintin

ABD-Groupe France Epargne-Patrick Morvan

ABD-Chaleur Fioul Elan-Didier Levillain