Franck Cammas became the second French skipper to win the Volvo Ocean Race when he guided his Groupama team in to a rapturous welcome from more than 100,000 people in Galway on Tuesday.

The eight-month, 39,270-nautical mile (72,728km) race was decided when Cammas's Groupama 4 boat finished second in the ninth and final leg, a short 550-mile sprint from Lorient in France.

The result gave Cammas an unassailable 24-point lead with the Galway in-port race set to complete the event on Saturday.