Achievements
- 1988: 32nd Route de la Decouverte (JB-Express)
- 1990: 10th Route du Rhum (BPO)
- 1991: 5th Course de l'Europe (Kar-Cadelac)
- 1992: 3rd Transat and 3rd Route du cafe (BPO)
- 1993: 3rd Course de l'Europe (Banque Populaire)
- 1995: 2nd Transat Jacques-Vabre and 3rd Course de l'Europe (Banque Populaire)
- 1996: 2nd Transat Quebec - Saint Malo (Banque Populaire)
- 1998: 6th Route du Rhum (Banque Populaire)
- 2000: 1st Transat (Eure-et-Loir)
- 2001: 1st Fastnet Race and also beat the record by sailing around the Isle of Wight in 3 hours ten minutes and 11 seconds
- 2003-2004: Beat the record by sailing singlehanded around the world in 72 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 22 seconds (IDEC). Subsequently beaten by Ellen MacArthur in 2005
- 2005: Beat the record by sailing single-handed across the Atlantic in 6 days, 4 hours 1 minute and 37 seconds (IDEC)
- 2007: Beat the 24 hour single-handed distance record by sailing 613.54 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 25.85 knots. Joyon set the record sailing IDEC 2 during a successful attempt to break the single-handed around the world record. Soon after, Joyon's 24 hour distance record was beaten by Thomas Coville who sailed 619.3 miles in 24 hours during an unsuccessful single-handed around the world record attempt
- 2008: Beat the record for sailing single-handed around the world in 57 days 13 hours 34 minutes and 6 seconds comprehensively beating Ellen MacArthur's existing record by 14 days, 00 hours, 44 minutes and 27 seconds
- 2010: 2nd Route du Rhum IDEC II
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