Mathis Bourgnon, born in Rouen on 28 April 1997, is the son of Swiss skipper Yvan Bourgnon and rally-raid driver Florence Bourgnon-Migraine. He grew up in Normandy and holds both French and Swiss nationality.
Trained on multihulls (Nacra F20, ETF26, sport catamarans), he joined Alan Roura's Swiss Offshore Team / Team Amaala in 2025 and took part in two legs of The Ocean Race Europe in IMOCA.
In the 2025 Mini Transat he sailed the prototype Assomast and crossed the finish line in Guadeloupe on 8 November 2025 after thirteen days and seventeen hours at sea, winning the prototype category ahead of favourite Benoît Marie, thirty years after his father's 1995 victory.
In November 2025 he chose to sail his Mini back from Guadeloupe under sail, solo, on a roughly 4,050-mile winter return, with his father routing him remotely.
