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OCEAN RACE

BACKGROUND

the sport’s best sailors against each other across IMUNIS
the world’s toughest waters.
ROME KIRBY 29

Location: Australia
The Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round Nationality: Australian Interests: Foiling, Ocean racing, Skiing
the World Race) is a yacht race around the world, held Interests: Foiling, Ocean racing, Skiing
every three years.Originally named after its initiating Characteristics:
sponsor, British Whitbread brewing company, it Ambitious, Team-oriented, Social
today carries the name of its current owner, Swedish
automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars and Swedish
multinational manufacturing company, the Volvo Group.

Though the route changes to accommodate various
ports of call, the race typically departs Europe in
October, and in recent editions has had either 9 or 10
legs, with in-port races at many of the stopover cities.
The 2008–09 race started in Alicante, Spain, on October
11, 2008. I'M

During the nine months of the 2011–12 Volvo Ocean Race,
which started in Alicante, Spain in October 2011 and
concluded in Galway, Ireland, in July 2012, the teams
were scheduled to sail over 39,000 nmi (72,000 km) of
the world’s most treacherous seas via Cape Town, Abu ROME KIRBY "At age 23, I'm the youngest
Dhabi, Sanya, Auckland, around Cape Horn to Itajaí, member of ORACLE TEAM USA but that O6 / INTRODUCTION TO SAILING
Miami, Lisbon, and Lorient. doesn’t faze me, who have been sailing since
age 3. In July 2012, I completed the around
Destination was Gothenburg, Sweden, scheduled for the world Volvo Ocean Race onboard with the
June 2015, with stopovers in the ports of Cape Town, Abu PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG crew. "
Dhabi, Sanya, Auckland, Itajaí, Newport, Lisbon, Lorient,
and with a Pitstop at The Hague through the last leg.