Draft:Giovanni Soldini

Giovanni Soldini (Milan, 16th May 1966) is an Italian navigator who specializes in solo and crewed ocean sailing.

Biography
Ocean navigator and pioneer in the development of innovative technologies and trim for racing yachts, he has over thirty years of solo and crewed ocean races behind him, including two solo round-the-world races (one second and one first place), six Québec-Saint Malo (one won in the monohull class), six Ostar (two wins in the 50' and 40' classes), three Transat Jacques Vabre (one win in the 40' class) and more than 40 transoceanic races. .

In 1994/95 at the B.O.C. Challenge, the solo round-the-world race in stages, Soldini crossed the finish line in second place with the 50-footer Kodak. In 1998-99 he won the Around Alone, his second solo round-the-world race in stages, with Fila, the first 60-footer with canting keel and wing mast built in Italy. During the third leg he rescued and saved the French sailor Isabelle Autissier, who had capsized in the South Pacific at 60° south, between New Zealand and Cape Horn

Between 2001 and 2005, Soldini was the first Italian to compete in the 60-foot trimaran class ORMA with the multihull first named Fila, then Tim. From 2007 to 2009, on board Telecom, he raced in the new Class 40, taking first place in all the most important regattas he took part in, as well as winning the class world championship in 2009.

On board the monohull VOR 70 Maserati, Soldini conquered the new record on the Golden Route from New York to San Francisco in 2013 (13,225 miles in 47 days, 42 minutes and 29 seconds) and won important regattas such as the Cape2Rio in 2014, setting a new record that is still unbeaten today.

Since 2016, on board Maserati Multi70, the first flying ocean trimaran, he has set the Hong Kong-London route record in 2018 (15,083 actual miles in 36 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes and 12 seconds), the English Channel record in 2021 and the record on the original Fastnet route, and he has won numerous victories in the RORC Transatlantic Race, RORC Caribbean 600 and Rolex Middle Sea Race.

Soldini has always been passionate about spreading the culture of the sea and is committed to its preservation. In 2022 he transformed Maserati Multi70 into the first full-electric racing boat and collected data on the ocean that is useful to the scientific community for the UNESCO Ocean Decade.

Results
LOOPING


 * 3º place - Baule-Dakar solo regatta (1991)
 * 2º place - Ostar, Europe 1 Star solo regatta - class 50' (1992)

STUPEFACENTE / KODAK / TELECOM


 * 1º place - Roma x 2 (1994)
 * 2º place - solo around the world in legs – class 50' (1995)
 * 1º place - Roma x 2, paired with Isabelle Autissier (1996)
 * 1º place - Ostar solo regatta - class 50' (1996)
 * 1º place - Québec-Saint-Malo - classes 50' and 60' (1996)
 * 1º place - Roma x 2 - class 50' (1997)

FILA


 * 1º place - Atlantic Alone (class 60') solo. Overall winner and race record (1998)
 * 1º place - Around Alone (class 60') solo round-the-world race in legs. Overall winner and race record (1999)
 * 5º place - Transatlantica in solitario, solo regatta - class 60' (2000)
 * 2º place - Québec-Saint-Malo - class 50' e 60' (2000)
 * 5º place - Transat Jacques Vabre (2001)

ORMA 60’ (FILA / TIM)


 * 1º place - Roma x 2 (2002)
 * 7º place - GP d'Italia (2003)
 * 8º place - GP de Marseille (2003)
 * 7º place - The Transat, solo regatta (2004)
 * 5º place - Québec-Saint-Malo (2004)

CLASS 40’ TELECOM ITALIA


 * 1º place - Transat Jacques Vabre, class 40 paired with Pietro D'Alì (2007)
 * 1º place - Grand Prix Petit Navire di Douarnenez, class 40, in crew (2008)
 * 1º place - The Transat Plymouth - Boston - class 40, solo (2008)
 * 4º place - Québec-Saint-Malo - class 40, crewed (2008)
 * 1º place - Grand Prix Petit Navire di Douarnenez, class 40 crewed (2009)
 * 1º place - Transmanche, class 40 with Karine Fauconnier (2009)
 * 1º place - Les Sables-Horta-Les Sables, class 40 paired with Karine Fauconnier (2009)
 * 2º place - Solidaire du Chocolat (Nantes, FR - Progreso, MEX), with Pietro D'Alì (2009)

MASERATI VOR 70


 * New World - Record Golden Route - New York / San Francisco (2013)
 * 2º place - Transpacific Yacht Race (2013)
 * 1º place - Cape2Rio, win and New Race Record set in 10 d, 11 h, 29 m, 57 s (2014)
 * NEW WORLD RECORD on the Tea Route from San Francisco to Shanghai, in 21 d 19 h, 32 m, 54 s (2015)
 * 4º place - Sydney - Hobart 70 (2015)

MASERATI MULTI70


 * 1º place - Rolex Middle Sea Race - New Race Record for Multihull 2 d, 1 h, 25 m, 1 s (2016)
 * 2º place - RORC Transatlantic Race (2016)
 * 2º place - RORC Caribbean 600 (2017)
 * 3º place - Transpacific Yacht Race (2017)
 * NEW WORLD RECORD on the Route Hong-Kong - London set in 36 d, 2 h, 37 m, 2 s (2018)
 * 1º place - Rolex Middle Sea Race (2018)
 * 1º place in Multihull Line Honours - RORC Caribbean 600 (2018)
 * 1º place in Multihull Line Honours - RORC Caribbean 600, New Race Record for Multihulls, 1 d, 6 h, 49 m (2019)
 * 1º place in Multihull Line Honours - Rolex Middle Sea Race
 * NEW WORLD RECORD on the Route Monaco - Saint Tropez 2 h, 25 m, 44 s (2021)
 * NEW WORLD RECORD on the Route Monaco - Porto Cervo, 7 h, 50 m, 44 s (2021)
 * NEW WORLD RECORD on the Route Plymouth - La Rochelle, 12 h, 15 m, 21 s (2021)
 * NEW WORLD RECORD on the Route Cowes - Dinard (English Channel Record), 4 h, 30 m, 45 s (2021)
 * NEW WORLD RECORD on the original Fastnet Route Cowes - Plymouth, 23 h, 51 m, 16 s (2021)
 * 1º place “All Boats” and “Line Honour Multihull” - RORC Transatlantic Race (2022)
 * 2° place Multihull Line Honours e winner Mocra class - in RORC Caribbean 600 (2022)
 * 1° place in Multihull Line Honours - Regata dei Tre Golfi (2022)
 * 3° place in Multihull Line Honours - Rolex Middle Sea Race (2022)
 * 1º place - RORC Transatlantic Race, “All Boats” e “Line Honour Multihull”, New Race Record 5 d, 5 h, 46 m, 26 s (2023)
 * 2° place in real time - RORC Caribbean 600 (2023)
 * 2° place in real time - Transpacific Yacht Race (2023)

Medals
In 2000, by decision of French President Jacques Chirac, he received the Légion d'honneur for the rescue of Isabelle Autissier. In 2004, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. In 2008, he was awarded the Medaglia d'Oro al Merito di Marina for his achievements in sailing sport by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano.

Publications

 * Giovanni Soldini, Nel blu. Una storia di vita e di mare, Longanesi, 2000
 * Giovanni Soldini, Sulla rotta dell'oro. New York - San Francisco via Capo Horn, Longanesi, 2013