Overview
- Race organisers and Dalin's wife, Perrine Le Pape, confirmed his death on Thursday and said he had been fighting a long illness.
- Dalin set the overall Vendee Globe record in January 2025 with a time of 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds, beating the prior mark by more than nine days.
- He publicly revealed in October that he had been diagnosed with a tumour days before the 2024–25 start and that he received immunotherapy during the record-setting solo circumnavigation.
- Dalin built a two-decade career that included transatlantic wins and a runner-up finish in the 2020–21 Vendee Globe, and he withdrew from the Transat Jacques Vabre in late 2023 for medical reasons.
- Tributes have poured in from the sailing community and French leaders, and the sport now faces a period of remembrance for a competitor whose sporting feats and private fight with cancer drew wide attention.