Greg Closier has taken out the Raid Paddle Race in France on the weekend, as six dozen paddlers enjoyed a wild and woolly 10km downwinder across the Gulf of Morbihan.

With a stiff breeze providing plenty of bumps and an overcast sky forcing paddlers to wear plenty of neoprene, the race for the prize was super tight. Greg and his fellow French paddling stalwart, Gaetan Sene, sprinted up the beach to the line after catching bumps side by side over the final kilometre.

Third was another old schooler in Yoann Cornelis, while Joseph Gueguen and Martin Vitry had just one second separating them in the fight for fourth. Joseph backed it up by claiming victory in the smaller, BOP-style “Beach Race” event ahead of Gaetan.

France’s five top ranked paddlers were missing on the weekend (Eric, Titou, Martin and the Arthurs), however the performances at Morbihan highlight just how deep the talent runs in the land of cheese and baguettes. Good to see so many paddlers out on the water despite what was clearly some very cold water.

In the women’s downwinder, Amandine Chazot crossed the line first in 1 hour 6 minutes, a couple of minutes in front of Solange Pruvost.

Here’s a short highlights reel that shows off the conditions pretty well, then we’ve got full results down below that.

More photos and plenty of French-language coverage on Get Up SUP Mag, SUPmag.fr, Surfing France.

 

Raid Paddle Race Golfe du Morbihan

#	Name	Time	Division	#
1	Greg Closier	0:55:21	Men	1
2	Gaetan Sene	0:55:37	Men	2
3	Yoann Cornelis	0:56:14	Men	3
4	Joseph Gueguen	0:56:50	Men	4
5	Martin Vitry	0:56:51	Junior	1
6	Amaury Dormet	0:57:23	Men	5
7	Vincent Verhoeven	0:58:15	Men	6
8	Olivier Garet	0:58:21	Men	7
9	Lucas Le Bayon	0:58:21	Men	8
10	Simon Michelin	0:58:30	Men	9
11	Benoit Raphalen	0:58:39	Men	10
12	Yves Gondre	0:59:05	Men	11
13	Hugo Donse	0:59:48	Men	12
14	Franck Le Ven	1:00:09	Men	13
15	Renaud Noyelle	1:00:12	Men	14
16	Tom Auber	1:00:19	Junior	2
17	Gregoire Vitry	1:00:33	Men	15
18	Thomas Hebert	1:00:48	Men	16
19	Jeremy Branchu	1:00:55	Men	17
20	Mathieu Raimon	1:01:04	Men	18
21	Boris Jinvresse	1:01:19	Men	19
22	Jean Letourneur	1:01:26	Junior	3
23	Pascal Pouget	1:01:51	Men	20
24	Frederic Istin	1:01:58	Men	21
25	Eric Sery	1:02:33	Men	22
26	Guillaume Lenclen	1:03:32	Men	23
27	David Amemoutou	1:04:44	Men	24
28	Stive Lener	1:05:42	Men	25
29	Amandine Chazot	1:06:41	Women	1
30	Pierre Lavenant	1:07:17	Men	26
31	Stephane Prigent	1:07:25	Men	27
32	Frederic Le Coz	1:07:45	Men	28
33	Solange Pruvost	1:08:38	Women	2
34	Franck Lefevre	1:09:03	Men	29
35	William Vernack	1:09:20	Men	30
36	Olivier Cabelguen	1:10:01	Men	31
37	Tanguy Richard	1:11:37	Junior	4
38	Vianney Bergot	1:12:46	Men	32
39	Philippe Trebaul	1:13:44	Men	33
40	Mickael Guilbert	1:13:53	Men	34
41	Sylvie Marin	1:13:57	Women	3
42	Cecile Gondre	1:14:48	Women	4
43	Valerie Vitry	1:15:35	Women	5
44	Anne Crozet	1:16:16	Women	6
45	Mickael Gilles	1:16:43	Men	35
46	David Esnault	1:16:51	Men	36
47	Jean-Baptiste Mezelle	1:17:40	Men	37
48	Francois Prevost	1:18:26	Men	38
49	Joelle Terrien	1:18:30	Women	7
50	Gilles Degraef	1:19:05	Men	39
51	Alain Geffrault	1:19:49	Men	40
52	Matthieu Desbois	1:20:22	Men	41
53	Erwan Le Leannec	1:21:58	Men	42
54	Nicolas Le Gal	1:22:16	Men	43
55	Eric Chevallier	1:22:24	Men	44
56	Bertrand Dreano	1:22:42	Men	45
57	Beatrice Gastineau	1:23:27	Women	8
58	Ghislain Rome	1:23:43	Men	46
59	Florian Schmitt	1:24:17	Men	47
60	Elene Moriggia	1:25:01	Women	9
61	Karine DOrmet	1:25:25	Women	10
62	Cedric Malengreau	1:26:28	Men	48
63	Karel Davalle-Corre	1:28:43	Junior	5
64	Alain Corre	1:31:14	Men	49
65	Marie-Elphege Julienne	1:34:11	Women	11
66	Eric Pudal	1:36:04	Men	50