The excellent progression of Spanish finnists places them at the height of the best in the world

It ends the Finn European Championship with excellent results for the Spanish pre-Olympic team that will be released with the European title U23 for the Joan Cardona, which is bronze in the general classification, tied with the second, and a fourth place for Catalan Alejandro Muscat.

The race field of Gdynia, Poland, has kept the table in vilo until the last moment, with two closing races in which the possibilities of reaching the silver have been open to the Spaniards until the last moment.

At the first test of the day the Spanish pre-Olympic team arrived with Muscat in third position after losing the leadership he had held for two days, and Cardona in fifth place. A twenty-first Muscat turned the table back to the seventh position, while Cardona went up to the third step of the podium thanks to a partial fifth.

The final test with Cardona started at two points from the British Giles Scott, who was second to twelve points from the Hungarian Zsombor Berecz. Muscat was far from the podium and nine points from the fourth place... but in Gdynia everything could happen.

In the last test, Muscat crossed the line of arrival in second position, his best partial in the championship, and Cardona in sixth, without any of his rivals being ahead. This closed down general classifications in which, while Alejandro Muscat has escaped the European absolute, he has been able to stay in fourth position.

Joan Cardona is again confirmed as the champion of U23 Europe and achieves a bronze that tastes silver by being tied to points with Giles Scott, Gold medal in this class in Rio 2016. This was the case with this European:

1. HUN. Zscombor Berecz 4,10,7,3,3,12,4,3,8, (24) = 53 sts
2. GBR. Giles Scott. 1,2,17.3, 8, 10, 5.7, (22), 8 = 61 sts
3. ESP. Joan Cardona (18), 4,1,4,6,14,3,18,5,6 = 61 sts
4. ESP. Alejandro Muscat 6.5.3.6, 20.3, (71), 5.21.2 = 71 sts
4. NED. Nicholas Heiner 13, (14), 1410,2,11,13,1,7,5 = 76
19. ESP. Pablo Guitián 19,9,22,23,18,15,12,20,13, (29) = 151 sts
36. ESP Victor Gorostegui 28,34,26,28,37,31,29,44.32, (71) = 286 sts

2020 / 09 / 05: Alejandro Muscat third in a Finn European with nothing decided

After the two races today, Alejandro Muscat is on the third step of the podium, and Joan Cardona is in fifth position, two points from his partner in the Spanish pre-Olympic team, keeping the lead between the U23

Penultimate day of the Finn European Championship with the same unstable and dominated conditions as in previous days, under which Catalan Alejandro Muscat and the shooting Joan Cardona continue to show a very high level to be measured with the largest of the international fleet.

The first race of the day was for Muscat and Cardona. Under intense rain and with five knots of wind, Muscat, the leader until the time of the fleet, left the race after being twice warned by the judges, which led him to fall to the seventh place on the table. Cardona gave us one of his master sailing lessons and crossed the third line of arrival, which augmented him to the third step of the provisional podium.

Far away was the head trio in those moments for which he had stood in front of the board for two days, but good navigation and the unpredictable of the race field for all made a fifth place return Muscat to the head trio, while an 18th represented the setback that went down to Cardona to the fifth position.

With the Hungarian Zsombor Berecz who claims his second place in the World Ranking and a good day with a 4-3 to rise as a new leader, the gold medal in Rio 2016 and advocate of the absolute European title Giles Scott is going to lag behind with only three points of difference. And Alejandro Muscat from the third place, the Turkish Alican Kaynar one point behind and Cardona two points promise to give this European Championship emotion to the last line of arrival.

Tomorrow, from 10: 30, the last two races in which, in addition to the absolute European title, the U23 is at stake, of which Cardona is a leading leader and a detenter of the European and world title, will be held.

2020 / 09 / 04: Giles Scott tightens, but Alejandro Muscat is still leading the Finn European

The Catalan Alejandro Muscat maintains the European leadership after a difficult day in Polish waters... for its part, the Joan Cardona ballet is fourth and is located three points from the podium, as the first ranked in U23 (Photo Robert Daves)

Alejandro Muscat and Joan Cardona, the members of the Spanish pre-Olympic team that compete in the Finn European Championship, culminate in the third day of race keeping all their options, with Muscat in front of the table for the second consecutive day, and Cardona ascending to the fourth position, three points from the podium.

The day has been particularly complicated in the regatta field of Gdynia, Poland, where the chucbats and with them the unstable wind are maintained, to the point that in the second test disputed today, up to 40% of the 70 participants have exceeded the time limit set for the test.

With the entry into play of the discard, Alejandro Muscat has been able to remove from his marker the 20th of the first test of the day, maintaining some partials that do not exceed the 6th place, including two 3rd. The British Giles Scott, who is weighed today's posts, is followed in the second position, with the Hungarian Zsombor Berecz in charge of closing the provisional podium.

At the doors of this podium, just three points, Joan Cardona is today, which to the sixth place in the first race of the day has added a fourteenth. Cardona remains an undisputed leader among the U23, with the following ranked to 17 posts and 64 points.

Behind Joan Cardona, in the fifth place, the Turkish Alican Kaynar, winner of today's two races.

Diego Fructuoso, coach of Finn's pre-Olympic team, was happy at the end of the day as he tells us that "it is a complicated moment of the championship, in which when the discard comes into play there are many changes in the classification, but the good ones accumulated allow our team to stay up."

Of the other two Spaniards who compete in the European, Pablo Guitián is in the 19th place, while Victor Gorostegui, who has failed to finish the second race today, passes to the 32nd place.

2020 / 09 / 03: Alejandro Muscat at the head of the European Finn Championship in Poland

The splendid Finn Navy in Polish waters

Great day for Spanish finnists in the European Championship that is taking place in Gdynia, Poland, who today have embroidered their performance to place Alejandro Muscat at the head of the table and Joan Cardona in fifth position.

With weather situations similar to those of yesterday, dominated by the rain and the stirred sea, Joan Cardona began the day by scoring the victory of the first test, while Alejandro Muscat added a third position that led him to the second position, tied to points with the provisional leader, the British Henry Wetherell.

A second race, in which Cardona was fourth and Muscat sixth, served Alejandro Muscat to take the first position of the provisional classification, three points from the British Giles Scott, closing the podium of the day the Hungarian Zsombor Berecz.

Joan Cardona recovers positions over the first day and is fifth of the general reaffirming himself as a leader in U23, highlighting today for having added the best partials of the entire fleet.