Diego Botín and Iago López Marra will leave as favorites at the World Cup Final (Photo: Pedro Martínez)

The International Sailing Federation announces the list of athletes who, by ranking, get a place to go to Santander and fight the end of the World Cup in canteen waters. The races of this final of the World Cup will be held between 4 and 11 June. The end of the World Cup, the most interesting test for the Olympic class regatists, will bring together the highest figures of the Olympic candle. The places available for the Santanderin appointment are 20 or 25 boats per class (depending on the Olympic class in which it is navigated) and the only athletes directly classified are the medallists of the Rio Olympic Games, in addition to the winners of the two World Cup circuit tests. Once the International Sailing Federation has issued the invitations to take part in the end of the world cup, and in case of teams that decline the invitation, the posts will be filled in the ranking, until the places called are completed if necessary.

Spanish in all classes
The Spanish presence is more than fully assured in the ten Olympic categories in the absence of the final confirmation of the invitations. Echávarri and Pacheco, like Botín and López, ensure their pass to the final of Santander after their victory in Hyéres in the Nacra17 and 49er classes respectively. The female version of the 49th, the 49th FX, will issue an invitation to the crew Munte Carrasco. The RS class: X will wave national colors with Paliau in female category and Scandinell in male division. The individual Olympic vessels such as the Laser Standard, Laser Radial and Finn are classified as Blanco and Rodríguez in the first, Kingdom in the second and Guitian in the third. Also in class 470, in both male and female category, with the crews Xammar and García-Paz, and the four female teams: Mas / Cantero, Cornuella / López, Toro / Pumariega and Miquel / Doreeste.

38 countries on 5 continents
The list of classified athletes is extensive with the presence of 37 different countries covering the five continents. Many of these athletes called to the Santanderina meeting already have an extensive knowledge of this water, having been fighting the world Olympic class championship Santander 2014. In the ranking listed by the international sailing federation there are countries such as France, Spain or Italy with presence in all the participating classes, in addition to others such as Britain, Argentina or the United States, with squares in almost all the categories that will run for the gold in this fine of the world cup. On the opposite side we find countries such as Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia or Greece that appear only in one of the Olympic categories.

A delegation from the World Sailing visits Santander to the organization of the World Cup (24 / 04 / 2017)

Technicians of the International Sailing Federation are on a work visit in Santander face the World Cup

A technical delegation from the World Sailing is in Santander these days in order to check the facilities that will host the Final World Cup-Santander, the great end of the World Cup of Olympic classes, and meet with the organizing committee of the world nautical test. The representatives of the World Sailing: Antonio González de la Madrid (Director of the Sailing World Cup), Daniel Smith (responsible for international communication of the World Sailing) and Natasha Keene, Emigdio Bedia (Comodoro del Real Club Marítimo de Santander), Juan Domínguez (director of sports of the Municipality of Santander), Jacobo Quintana (Municipal Institute of Sports of Santander), Antonio Gómez Martín (Municipal Institute of Sports) and Luky Serrano (Director of Final Regatas of the World) have taken part in these meetings and prospects.