He 52nd Princess Sofia Mallorca Trophy by Iberostar It comes to an end this Saturday and it does so with Spain at medium throttle. The bay of Palma will bid farewell to a competition that has welcomed 976 boats andThe national pre-Olympic team will only be represented in two Medal Races: in 470 mixed, Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman will face it from second provisional place and, in 49er, Diego Botín and Florian Trittel entered from tenth position. Yes indeed, when it comes to seeking a medal, only Xammar and Brugman are in a position to achieve it.
The couple formed by Xammar and Brugman did not have their best day this Friday, with both being ninth in the partials, but the rivals were not good either and the Catalans entered the Medal Race in second place on the provisional podium. Up to 18 points separate them from the leaders, the Japanese Keiju Okada and Miho Yoshioka, a difficult distance to overcome in their aspirations to defend the title won last year at Sofia. The Spanish duo will also have to keep an eye on their stern, with the Germans Luise Wanser and Philipp Autenrieth lurking at just five points and the French Camille Lecointre and Jeremie Mion at ten.
In 49erDiego Botín and Florian Trittel signed a 13th, a seventh and a tenth to certify their access to the Medal Race in extremis after climbing two places in the provisional table. They will contest the final from tenth place, although medals are mathematically out of their reach. New Zealanders Isaac Mchardie and William Mckenzie are the leaders, ahead of their compatriots Logan Dunning Beck and Oscar Gunn, and Australians Tom Burton and Max Paul.
The multi-time freestyle kite champion Gisela Pulido touched the Women’s Formula Kite Medal Race. This Friday she signed some partials of 15-13-6-9 and the Catalan closed her participation in 11th position. As to female iQFOiL, Sevillian windsurfer Pilar Lamadrid finished the Princesa Sofía, falling to sixteenth position. He started the day very strong, with a partial victory, and also marked a third, but he punctured in the last three rounds with a 35, a disqualification for a black flag and a retirement, ending all his hopes of accessing the Medal Races. The British Emma Wilson, for her part, secured one of the three medals in the class by confirming herself as the best of the fleet and directly accessing the grand final, in which only three boards compete.
Támara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló also failed to enter the final this Saturday. The current world bronze of 49er FX they finished their participation in the Princesa Sofía Trophy in 16th place. Yesterday, Friday, they were penalized with a black flag disqualification in the first outing, and then signed a third and a 16th in the following rounds.
On the other hand, in ILCA 6 The identity of the champion of the 52nd Sofia the First Trophy is already known: the triple Olympic medalist Marit Bouwmeester achieved the final victory with the Medal Race remaining. This is the first major regatta in which the Dutch woman has competed since Tokyo 2020, since last year she was absent from the competition because she was a mother. Australian Zoe Thomson, Dutch Maxime Jonker and Italian Chiara Benini Floriani are expected to fight for silver and bronze. Among the Spanish, Ana Moncada finished 20th. And in ILCA 7, the British Michael Beckett managed to take the title of the Princess Sofia Trophy one day before the end of the championship and revalidate the victory of last year. The best Spaniard was Joel Rodríguez from the Canary Islands, 21st overall.
Finally, in Nacra 17, Tara Pacheco and Andrés Barrio from the Canaries signed a modest performance this Friday, with partial scores of 21-17-13 that confirmed their 21st final position. In Formula Kite, the Catalan Bernat Cortés finished 27th and in iQFOIL Menu, the Mallorcan Nacho Baltasar finished as the best Spaniard, in 32nd place. This Saturday the Medal Races of the ten Olympic classes will be held starting at 11:30. The ten best in each discipline will meet in the waters of the Bay of Palma, distributed in four regatta courses, to close a Princesa Sofía Trophy with record numbers just over a year before the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. At 8:00 p.m. :00 pm The trophy delivery ceremony will take place in Ses Voltes, at the foot of Palma Cathedral, in which the winners and the overall winner of the 52nd edition of the best Olympic sailing regatta in the world will be honored.
