The absolute domain of Diego Botín and Iago López Marra in 49er with five first in eight tests... Tamara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló show full face-to-world

The Oceania Championship again served as an antecedent of the World Championship of the classes 49er, 49er FX and Nacra 17, and held four days in Geelong, Australia. The Spanish performance has been brilliant, leading two of the three podios of a competition that serves as a tantage for the world that will be held next week (10-15 February), and that despite considering it as a training has shown the power of the Spanish pre-Olympic team.

In 49er, Diego Botín and Iago López Marra (Quirón Salud) have not given their rivals options, adding a total of five first in eight disputed tests. They share podium with the most pomegranate of the class, New Zealanders Burling / Tuke and Beck / Gunn, and leave out many other candidates for the world title, although the supremacy of the Spaniards in this previous quote makes clear their options, with 12 points on the second and 27 points on the third.

Tamara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló also sign a first in 49er FX. For this class and for the Nacra 17 the first day was left blank by the strong wind rachas, and in the start the girls of the Movistar team ended up in a quadruple tie to one point of the podium, in seventh position. In the next round of races, a 1-2-1 took the Spanish to the first temporary position, which have finished today with a 1-3-1 to finish at 12 points from the New Zealand Maloney / Meech, and 32 from the Melzacka / Loboda Polacas.

49ER
1. Diego Botín / Iago López Marra = (8) -1-1-1-4-5-1-1 = 14 sts
2. NZL. Peter Burling / Blair Tuke = 5-3-1-9-1-1-6- (10) = 26 sts
3. NZL. Logan Beck / Oscar Gunn = 6-6-6-5- (13) -2-8-8 = 41 sts
4.- AUS. Thomas Needham / Joel Turner = 3-6-3-12-3-4-12- (21) = 43 sts
5. NZL. Isaac McHardie / William McKenzie = 3-8-6-10- (19) -3-7-7 = 44 sts

49er FX
1. Tamara Echegoyen / Paula Barceló = 4- (11) -6-3-1-2-1-1-3-1 = 22 sts
2. NZL. Alexandra Maloney / Molly Meech = 5-1-4-2-2-4-9- (14) -5-2 = 34 sts
3. POL. Aleksandra Melzacka / Kinga Loboda = 5-5-5- (14) -7-14-4-3-2-9 = 54 sts
4.- USA. Paris Henken / Anna Tobias = 2-11-1-13-12- (19) -3-5-1-10-10 = 58 sts
5. GBR. Charlotte Dobson / Saskia Tidey = 1-6-12-9-4-1- (15) -6-15-7 = 61 sts
13.- ESP. Patricia Suarez / Nicole van der Velden = 3-15-15-6-9-11- (BFD) -8-7-4 = 78 sts

NACRA
1.- USA. Riley Gibbs / Anna Weis = (20) -5-2-1-1-12-4-1-3 = 29 sts
2. Thomas Zajac / Barbara Matz = 2-7-6-9- (14) -1-2-3-2 = 32 sts
3. GBR. John Gimson / Anna Burnet = 3-9-1-2-3-3-7-4- (RET) = 32 sts
4. - ITA. Ruggero Tita / Caterina Banti = 1-1-14-8-2-9-1- (RET) -1 = 37 sts
5. Lin Cenholt / Cp Lübeck = 7-2-8- (10) -4-7-3-9-8 = 48 sts
10.-ESP Tara Pacheco / Florian Trittel = 9-11-16-17-6-2-18- (DNF) -11 = 90 sts

30 / 01 / 2020: Spain is already in Australia to compete in the Oceania Championship and the World Sailing

The Spanish pre-Olympic team is preparing for the World 2020 of 49er, 49er FX and Nacra 17

The Spanish pre-Olympic team of 49er, 49er FX and Nacra 17is already in Australia preparing for their first date of the year, the World Class Championship, which will be preceded by the Oceania Championship... Diego Botín / Iago López Marra in 49er, Tamara Echegoyen / Paula Barceló and Patricia Suárez / Nicole van der Velden in 49er FX, and Tara Pacheco / Florian Trittel in Nacra 17 will seek to overcome in Australian waters the results of the last world.

The battle will be waged in the Australian Bay of Clios, based in the city of Geelong, Victoria. With the southern summer facing its last stage, the expected temperatures will be around 25 degrees, waiting for good summer breezes for these classes to provide the expected spectacularity in navigation.

With more than 70 registered, the fleet of 49er, in which will sail the cantabre Diego Botín (RCM Santander) and the Galician Iago López Marra (CN Portosín), Quirón Salud, will be divided into two groups for the qualifying series to be held during the first two days; the last two days will be reserved for the final series and the Medal Race. The Spaniards closed the 2019 world to a podium point, so they are expected not to give truce not to be left out of the honours.

In 49er FX will be the Galician-Balear team of Tamara Echegoyen (RCN Sanxenxo) / Paula Barceló (CN Arenal), Movistar, and the Galician of Patricia Suárez / Nicole van der Velden (RCN Vigo), Grupo Profand, who face a fleet of about 40 ships, with the same test program as the 49er. Echegoyen and Barceló arrive with strength and desire after having had to withdraw from the world past due to the injury of Barceló, while Suárez and van der Velden will seek to improve their 2019 (14th) results.

And in Nacra 17 it will be the Canary Islands Tara Pacheco (CR Southwest Mogán) and the Catalan Florian Trittel (CN El Balís) who fight with a total of 30 participants with a program of up to 12 races before the Medal Race. Pacheco and Trittel were the artists of the Spanish classification for Tokyo 2020, and they did so from a fifth meritorious position, which they will now try to improve.

The Oceania Championship is again a world championship player, and it is held between January 31 and February 3... for the Spanish group, this series of races will be used again as training for the World Championship.