Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodríguez have taken the silver in the 470 World Cup held this week in Enoshima, the seat of the Olympic candle for Tokyo 2020, while Silvia Mas and Patricia Cantero have remained fifth in females

The couple of Spanish regatists, formed by Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodríguez, has boasted with silver in the 470 World Championships in Enoshima, Japan, after a week of very demanding conditions and a last day that has not been less.

With 9 knots of wind, the medal race began in which the top ten of the provisional were fighting for a medal. With the money secured, the pulse of Xammar and Rodríguez for the world world was fought with the Australians Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan, who have finally taken the gold thanks to an offline of the Catalan-Galician couple.

For their part, Silvia Mas and Patricia Cantero have been able to maintain the fifth meritorious position with which they arrived at the closing day after reassembling several posts yesterday, while Barbara Cornudella and Sara López ended up in place fourteen... English Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre have taken the gold in one of the most important tests of the 470 class, a selective world for the Olympic Games.

08 / 08 / 2019: Xammar-Rodríguez secure silver in Japan in the 470 World Cup... and they will fight for gold!

The historical world of Jordi and Nico... fabulous!

With a wind of 11 to 13 knots and the great waves that have swept the Sagami Bay during almost all the competition, the Spaniards Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodríguez have managed to rise today to the first provisional position in the 470 World Championships of Enoshima ahead of the Australians Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan. Thus, the couple of Spanish regatists will secure the silver and the gold will be played with the aussies tomorrow day of the closing of the competition.

One year after the next Olympic event, these worlds are of particular importance. On the one hand, they represent the possibility of testing the race field of the games and on the other, they are selective for the event and show the state of form of the contenders. Spain, which was already classified, has shown that it can be one of the favorites.

This was also the case of the women, who arrived in Enoshima with double representation, that of the team formed by Silvia Mas and Patricia Cantero, and that of Barbara Cornudella and Sara López. The former have today starred in an important step that has placed them in the fifth position of the provisional classification, which will allow them to fight tomorrow for medal on the closing day of the world. Cornudella and López, for their part, occupy position 14 and remain outside the medal race in which the first ten classified metals are played.

07 / 08 / 2019: Xammar and Nico Rodríguez go down to the second square in Japan with the Medal Race in sight

Xammar and Nico keep their gold possibilities intact in Japan

In the 470 World Cup, which is being held in the waters of the country, in Enhosima... our Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodríguez have been overcome by the Australian couple composed of Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan, who beat them for only one point.

The Catalan-Galaica couple... managed to close a good day... with two first places and a seventh... which was not enough to hold the first square, in front of the 2-2-3 of those in Australia... for their part the Italians Ferrari and Calabró, began the day in third place, they did not have their day and they went down to the sixth position. The third square is now occupied by the Swedish Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergstrom, eight points from the Spanish.

Silvia Mas and Patricia Cantero, have improved a position by now being octaves, after achieving in the day to do 15-4-7. The Catalan-Canary couple started leading and now they try to get into podium squares at the beginning of the Medal Race tomorrow. The British Hannah Mills and Eilidh Mcityre lead the female classification.

06 / 08 / 2019: Xammar- Rodríguez's dream day in Japan... already in charge of the 470 World Cup

Three wins in the three sleeves today... and to the head

The Catalan-Galaic dupla of the Barcelonese Jordi Xammar and the Vigués Nicolás Rodríguez put the speed to the full and they mark a great date on the third day of the World Cup of 470, sign three first and climb to the top of the provisional podium.

In the male Blue group Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodríguez have starred in a real exhibition winning the three sleeves of their group. This has led them to the general's leadership with a point of advantage over their direct rivals, Australians Matt Belcher and Will Ryan, world champions in 2017, European Open 2019 champions and silver medal in Rio 2016 that, in the Yellow group, have added two seconds and one first.

The Italians Giacomo Ferrari and Guilio Calabró, who today have added a first, a third and a fourth place and are third in general to two points of the Spanish. Tomorrow the final series begin with a unique group of 26 crews, the Gold, who will fight for the medals.

In the female category, things have not gone well for Mas and Cantero... because they have fallen to the fifth place of the general with 30 points, which leaves them to ten of the podium... the leaders are now Japanese Ai Kondo and Yoshioka Miho Yoshioka, world champions in Aarhus 2018... the second the Polacas Agnieszka Skrzypulek and Jolanta Orar, and the British Hanna Mills and Eilidh McIntyre third. For their part, the Catalan Barbara Cornudella and Sara López del Nàutic El Balís have gone up to the 14th place of the general.

05 / 08 / 2019: Silvia Más and Patricia Cantero dominate in female category the World Cup of 470 in Japan

The magnificent Spanish are giving a recital in Japan

The Spanish couple, made up of the regatists Silvia Mas and Patricia Cantero, lead in the Namibian waters, the 470 World Championship in the female category... the second square is for the Japanese Ai Kondo Yoshiida and Miho Yoshioka, being the Swiss Linda Fahrni and Maja Siegenthaler, the third at this time.

In the male category the Swedish tandem Anton Dahlberg Dahlberg-Fredrik Bergström dominates in a fleet of 52 470... second Hungary with Balazs Gyapjas-Zsombor Gyapjas, the third are the Japanese Keiju Okada-Jumpei Hokazono. The Spanish Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodríguez are duodecimos.