The Spanish Stand Up paddle team won its first medal in the European Championship in the women's technical career held at the East Paddle of the Portuguese city of Peniche

The Majorcan Laura Quetglas with a time of 37.54 minutes gets second place in a race in which the French Olivia Piana was the only one who could overcome the Spanish sportsman. After an equal race in the second position, Laura was able to reach the Danish Nicoline Rasmussen after taking a wave in the last meters of the tour. With this result the national selection amounts to 800 points for the overall of the classification. In the male category, the victory was for the Casper Steinfath Danes, while the Spanish Pepe Oltra ended in seventh position with a time of 32.56 minutes and Jurgi Zulaika did it on the eleventh through the finish line with a chrono of 34.25 minutes in a race that broke almost in the exit gunshot.

In the category of SUP waves, the Canaria Iballa Ruano managed to debut by completing its elimination with a total of 7.9 points that left it in first position and gives it direct access to the next round. In the male category, both Oihan Aizpuru and John of the Kings continue in the main picture after reaching the pass during the last elimination of the day. In the male category, both Oihan Aizpuru and John of the Kings continue in the main picture after reaching the pass during the last elimination of the day. In the third day it is planned to continue with the competition of SUP Surfing on the beach of Peniche from 12: 30 (local time) where the elimination will continue until the finalists are known in this category.

Two very exciting days that await us in this EuroSUP 2017 where both the individual champions in SUP surfing and Long distance and the general team classification remain to be decided.

07 / 06 / 2017: Good debut of Oihan Aízpuru and Juan Reyes in the European of SUP in Peniche

The Portuguese town of Peniche, hosts the European Championship of Nations of Stand Up Paddle Surf between 6 and 11 June, an ideal framework for the development of a competition that mixes the Race with the SUP Surfing. The Spanish SUP selection starts the first day of competition with two direct classifications to round 2 in the SUP Surfing eliminations.

Oihan Aízpuru was the first of the components of # LarojaSUP to debut in competition. With moderate wind conditions and an ideal force for the development of the competition, the young surfer managed to add 11.90 points in his two best waves to be placed in second position and directly access round 2 together with the German representative Moritz Much. For its part, the Andalusian Juan de los Reyes became first in the fifth manga of Ronda 1. The Barbateño overcame the Italian Leonard Nika (second) and the German Carsten Kurmis (third) in a very competitive elimination by the three athletes where John was able to overcome nervousness based on a good selection of waves.

The Spanish team of Stand Up Paddle, which disputes during this week the EuroSUP 2017 of Peniche, begins its journey by passing the two dispositions disputed in the mode of waves

In the second day it is planned to continue with the competition of SUP Surfing in addition to the technical race. The East Pier of the city of Peniche will be the location where the technical tour takes place in which the aspirations of # LarojaSUP go through the good make of Pepe Oltra and Jurgi Zulaika in male and Laura Quetglas in female. The second day is also expected the debut of the current European champion of SUP Surfing, the Canaria Iballa Ruano, which will depend on the conditions we meet on Peniche Beach. A very intense day that awaits us at this EuroSUP 2017 that gave its gunshot of departure on the morning of Tuesday 6 June with the traditional parade of nations and the sand mixing ceremony developed in the center of Peniche.

03 / 06 / 2017: Spain with a powerful selection participates in the EUROSUP in Peniche

Manuel Simoncelli and Óscar Ruíz, national selecionators of the SUP team, have made public the list of athletes who will finally represent Spain in the great event that will be the EuroSUP in Peniche, Portugal, which will be held between 6 and 11 June. Simoncelli pointed out that "we have a lot of confidence in this team and we hope to be there in front of both tests. I know all of them will give the most and make us proud."Those elected to the EuroSUP in Peniche shall be:

SUP RACE MASCULINA
Technical career: Pepe Oltra and Jurgi Zulaika
Long distance: Pepe Oltra and Pau Ybarra

SUP RACE FEMENINE
Technical and long distance racing: Laura Quetglas

SUP OLAS
Male: Oihan Aizpuru and Juan de Los Reyes
Female: Iballa Ruano

Confirmed the national SUP team for the European Championship to be held in Peniche

Spain already knows what it is to play a good role in a European and last year it won the subchampionship of Europe disputed in France. This year, it is presented with a very compensated team and has people with a lot of experience in international events. Some of the members already know what it's like to win international medal, such as Laura Quetglas, who in the last world contest in Fiji hung copper in SUP technical career.

The Race team will also have the first three posts of the last Spanish championship held in Bayona. Catalan Pepe Oltra, the current SUP 2017 Spanish Champion, has been on a high level for several years and has attended multiple national and international championships. The Donostiarra Jurgui Zulaika, who already participated in the Fiji World Cup and who hung the bronze medal in the last Spanish championship and Pau Ybarra, who rose with the Spanish subchampionship in Bayona.

In the category of SUP waves, there will be Iballa Ruano, the current champion of Spain and Europe. This canary, which has also been 8 times world champion in windsurfing, is presented in Peniche aware that it is one of the rivals to beat. One of the best bazas of our team to get metals in this world. On the men's side, in SUP waves, there will be the Vizcayno Oihan Aizpuru, Spanish champion of SUP waves in 2016 and the Barbateño Juan de Los Reyes, which in 2015 was proclaimed in the junior category of the Europe of Stand Up Paddle.

One of the casualties in the team that will represent Spain in this European is Toni Martí, Spanish subchampion 2016 and this year's technical test champion. Martí, you don't travel to Portugal because it matches selectivity, but we know you've won the square by pulse. And as Simoncelli himself points out "We hope you will continue to work this summer and accompany us to the world in September."