Sogestran is a partner of the Normandy Elite Team

Since 2013, the Sogestran group has been backing a group of top-level sailors: the Normandy Elite Team. Its objective is to support exceptional young Norman sailors in ambitious sporting projects such as Olympism, match racing or ocean racing.

This partnership with the Normandy Elite Team is fully in line with Sogestran's DNA, whose crews sail on fresh and salt waters and whose values of excellence and expertise, which are conveyed by Olympism, match racing and single-handed or crewed ocean racing, are also the driving force behind its growth.

As an icing on the cake, these athletes are ambassadors for Normandy around the world, and that's a good thing, because Sogestran is a family group, deeply attached to its roots in Le Havre!

Talent incubator

Since 2013, the Normandy Elite Team brings together and supports the best sailors in Normandy.

This team and its club of partners stand out on the world stage, with the following achievements:

• 2018 World Champions in Olympic Sailing,
• Participation in the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games,
• Second position in the 2021 Vendée Globe,
• World Champions in Duel 2021,
• Second and third positions in the Transat Jacques Vabre 2021,
• Second position in the 2022 Figaro Race.

However, too many high-potential Norman sailors remain at the quayside, as it is so difficult for them to convince partners in the early stages of their careers.

Sogestran and Seafrigo, both international groups but established and involved in Normandy, are keen to enable young talents to enter the world of competition and to give them the opportunity to show their potentials.

Therefore, in collaboration with the Normandy Elite Team, Sogestran and Seafrigo decided in 2022 to launch a talent incubator program to enable young sailors to launch themselves into ocean racing and created the Normandy Offshore Program, reinforcing Sogestran's commitment to the values of competitiveness, work, team spirit, personal challenge and success.

Jérémie Mion was the first young talent to benefit from the Normandy Offshore Program. In 2021, he took part in the Transat Jacques Vabre alongside Cédric Château. Together, they finished 3rd on the podium. In 2023, the qualification timetable for the 2024 Olympic Games (for which he is signed up as a joint duo with Camille Lecointe) forced him to give up his place. Guillaume Pirouelle thus joined Cédric Château to race the Transat Jacques Vabre (they finished in 14th place after a chaotic start!) and then to accompany him on the 2024 racing schedule.

Program