At around 1pm this Thursday, Tom Dolan and his fellow competitors in the 55th edition of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec arrived in Gijón as a pack. The top twenty boats all crossed the line in just five minutes. A minuscule gap after 615 miles of racing and four days...
This Sunday at 3 pm, Tom Dolan and the 36 other sailors competing in the 55th Solitaire du Figaro Paprec will take the start of the first leg, a 615-mile chunk of racetrack starting in Le Havre and culminating in Gijón, via the Wolf Rock lighthouse off south-west England. “The first...
Having systematically competed at the front of the pack during the pre-season races and even secured a podium place in the Le Havre Allmer Cup back in June, Tom Dolan is now poised to do battle in the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec. Currently in Rouen, like all 36 of his...
On Tuesday 6 August at 9.30pm on RTE1, discover "Around My Island", the documentary about Tom Dolan's solo Round Ireland record attempt last year. Irish solo sailor, Tom Dolan, attempts to be the fastest person to sail single-handed around the island of Ireland – one of the toughest feats in sailing. We...
We made you a promise and we’ve delivered: the first half of the year has been full-on! I’ve taken part in 5 Championnat de France Elite de Course au Large 2024 races, with the season’s highlight due to take place this summer: the legendary Solitaire of Figaro Paprec, the main event of...
After an intense first half of the season, comprising multiple back-to-back races on the calendar since March, accumulated fatigue was evident on the race course today in the final race of the Le Havre Allmer Cup. But Ireland’s Tom Dolan kept his head and remained focused to return a solid 10th...
Twelfth at the intermediate mark at Eddystone light, Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan made the breezy south coast of England work for him as he staged an excellent comeback to finish second on the 420 miles 6th edition of the Le Havre AllmerCup early this morning. Dolan brought his Smurfit...
In Olympic sport top athletes usually seek to elevate their game to be ‘in the medal zone’. For Ireland’s top offshore solo sailboat racer Tom Dolan the goal is the same, seeking to be fighting in the top pack to give himself the best chance of winning when the scrap...
Ireland’s Tom Dolan and his young French co-skipper Paul Morvan this morning finished a gruelling 740 miles long offshore race for the Trophée Banque Populaire Grand Ouest in seventh place from a star-studded field containing some of the most successful French solo Figaro racers of the last 10 years. Having started...
Banque Populaire Grand-Ouest Trophy is a long, long offshore sprint for Ireland’s Tom Dolan At 735 nautical miles long, the Banque Populaire Grand Ouest Trophy race which starts Saturday 1300hrs local time, is one of the longest offshore courses of the 2024 season for Ireland’s Tom Dolan. For the double handed course...
