Sven Stael, Elisabet Llargues, Irene Sanchez to the world... 20 Spaniards in the World Championship (Photo Alfred Farré)

Elisabet Llargués, of the CN Lloret de Mar, has been the winner of the disputed Open Week, finished today in the regatta field of the Club Vela Blanes. With partial results of a 6th and an excellent 2nd, the latter has enabled him to win the trophy, being tied to 25 points with the German Marisa Roch, who yesterday was the leader of the classification. The German in the last two sleeves today has only been able to perform a number of 5th and 6th partials. As he left behind Llargues in today's last test, he has made it easier for the CNLloret regatist to win the Open Week.

It has completed the podium the pliers of the RCN Calpe Sven Stadel, which has been placed third of the general, with 26 points, at one point of the first two, which demonstrates the rivalry experienced in the field of regats these last days. Both Eli Llargués and Sven Stadel are classified for the world, for their own merits earned at the Open Week. As an anecdote to note that there were two class world champions, Eli Llargués and Sven Stadel, who both won the world championship in the female and male categories, respectively, in the 2010 world contest in Sweden. Meritoria fourth position of the alicantina Irene Sánchez, of the RCN Torrevieja, which has remained among the first posts of the sleeves and is classified for the world with 41 points.

After the conclusion of the Open Week, a preamble to all the world championships in Europe, the list of Spanish regatists who will be in the world's races is very numerous. There will be those who already had the classification guaranteed by their season's palmarés, such as Gal · la Rodera, Monica Veenhoven, Patricia Figuerola, Oriol Piña, Luisa Puig, Marc Tello, Joan Freixa, Alejandro Pareja, and Rafael Rabasa, and are joined, after the Open Week, Elisabet Llargués, Sven Stadel, Irene Sanchez, Marc Rubio, Alex Collins, Salvi Borrat, Isaac Vila, German Gamero, Marc Arrufat, Nicolas Mena, Daniela Mena. Both Elisabet Llargués, and Sven Stadel, already won in 2010 the absolute world class, in its female and male category respectively. No doubt, now, both will want to revalidate the title, as they did now seven years ago in Sweden.

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Three women have starred in today's day, highlighting the Catalan Eli Llargues who has signed two first in the yellow group, and it is placed the second in the general classification with 17 points, only three points from another of the protagonists of the day, the German Marisa Roch, also from the yellow group, who with two third achieved is the leader of the general with 14 points, unlocking the Danish Anna Much, who yesterday still held the lead and now goes ninth, with 34 points. The other protagonist of the day has been the Alicantine regatist Irene Sanchez, who, despite having signed a third and a fifteenth, keeps her aspirations intact to enter the world's races and remains fifth in the general with 22 points.

Alicantina Irene Sánchez is fifth in the general (Photo Alfred Farré)

Happy of the results of today's Eli Llargues, he told us as he entered the plateau of the boats: 'my goal is to be able to be in the final, and to aspire to fight for the positions of head in the race from next Saturday'. I wish to like it is the Alicantino Sven Stadel (yellow group), which with 25 points, after the six races disputed and the discard, today is consolidated fourth of the general, just 3 points from the Danish Kristian Praest (another yellow), which is already classified for the end of the world.

Tomorrow's day will be decisive in this Open Week, the previous week of the European class world, where many regatists fight to be able to access the class's Absolute World. Of the 104 participants in the "week 'of Blanes 2017, there are regatists from Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden already have a place in their own right, obtained this year for their sports merits, to participate in the World Cup tests that will begin on 8 to 12 July. The rest who participate in the Open Week will have to win the square if they want to choose to be in the quota of regatists who will fight in the World Cup, in the male and female categories.