Pilar Lamadrid celebrating the pass to the final four of the iQFoil World Cup (Photo Sailing Energy-Engadinwind 2021)

The iQFoil class, windsurfing tables with fire, have celebrated from Tuesday 17 to today Sunday 22, its first world class as an Olympic class facing Paris 2024, with an excellent result for the Spanish Pilar Lamadrid that closes this World Championship with a fourth place.

To the Swiss lake of Silvaplana a total of 16 Spanish windsurfers, five girls and eleven boys, among whom the Andalusian Pilar Lamadrid has been the only national sportsman classified in the Top10, moved. The second one has been Nicole van der Velden at 18, while in the male table the first Spanish was Tomás Vieito, 38.

The lack of wind left the World Championship markers blank during the first two days, after which both fleets, male and female, could finally start the qualifying series. Pilar Lamadrid remained in the Top10 of the women's fleet from the first steps to face the final day in the sixth position of the general.

Today it began with the quarterback dispute, in which Lamadrid signed a fourth place that gave him the pass to the semifinal, in which he would compete in front of French Delphine Cousin, Israeli Shachar Reshef and British Saskia Sills. A first Spanish position sealed its participation in the grand final, next to the British Sills, to face the first two classified, the French Helene Noesmoen and the British Isway Watson who had obtained their passport at the end of the first and second fleet races series.

Pilar Lamadrid had at hand to close this world in Top3, but a fateful wind well made it fall into the first stretch of the final test fading all the options of the Spanish. The general classification was closed with the world scepter in the hands of the French Helene Noesmoen, followed by the British Islay Watson and Saskia Sills. Among the boys, victory for also French Nicolas Goyard, who shared podium with Dutch Luuc van Opzeeland and British Matthew Barton, second and third respectively.