Pilar Lamadrid, Ángel Granda and Ignacio Baltasar, win the Spanish Copas of iQFOil at the Andalusian Olympic Week

The Andalusian Pilar Lamadrid, the Canary Angel Granda and the Balear Ignacio Baltasar, have been awarded winners of the Spanish Copas of iQFOil Masculino, Feminino and Sub 21, respectively, after the last day of the seventeenth edition of the Andalusian Olympic Week that has been celebrated over the last four days in the waters of the bay of Cadiz.

The iQFOil classes today held five spectacular Slalom tests and three of the four fleets confirmed the provisional leaders. Among the girls, the NC windsurfer Puerto Sherry, Pilar Lamadrid, renews the national scepter and gets the absolute title on its own merits, with a level and a set-up that has allowed it not only to withstand the harsh conditions, but to continue to win evidence to the end.

Among the men, the Canary Angel Granda wins two more tests and wins with a wide difference of points on the shooting Joan Carles Cardona, which began the day winning the first tour and then has had to pull the discards so as not to lose the position. The best of the day has been this time the Galician Tomás Vieito who has won four of the five final tests and with the discarding of an off-line, manages to get on the podium to hang the absolute bronze.

Among the younger windsurfers, category Sub 19, is finally imposed the regatist of the CN Sevilla, Antonio Cueto, followed by Alejandro Arauz and Juan Pedro Guardiola, both of the team of the CN Puerto Sherry. The first child is Carmen Sahuquillo del CN Sevilla. In the Open category, without Spaniards, the Czech David Drda wins, with the second and third place for the Poles Maciej Poplonyk and Igor Lewinski.

In ILCA 7, the Ukrainian Oskar Madonna uses the income to confirm his victory, even though today the three trials had the only winner of the Andalusian Guillermo Flores. The regatist of the CN Rio Piedras pays his absence in the second day and in the absence of evidence in the penultimate day, he remains two points from the absolute title although the championship of Andalusia of the class is his. Complete the podium the regatist of CAN Eslora Diego Manuel Torregrosa.

In ILCA 6, with three other tests, Ukrainian Andrii Verdysh took advantage of this last day to increase his advantage from the top and beat more than a dozen points of advantage over Irish Shaughnesy, second. The changes come in the third place, which is confirmed for the Irish Rocco Wright to whom he has been about to "catch" the Andaluz Alfredo Gómez (CN Sevilla), fourth with one more point. It has not been a good day for Ukrainian Sofia Naumenko who loses the third absolute position although she retains the female victory in the class.

In ILCA 4, a class that had only one test disputed on the first day, the score is completed with three others won by the interim leader, the Ukrainian leader Ivan Pylypchii, the leading champion of the Olympic week, escorted on the podium by the Andalusian Pablo Franco of the Cadiz Polysports Club and Pablo Campos of the CAN Eslora. The women's championship for the regatist of the CN El Trocadero, María Belén Velázquez Durán, followed by Ana Dale del CAN Eslora and Cristina Zamorano of the CDN Punta Umbria, is also confirmed.

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2022-02-23: The Spanish Copas of iQFOil in the Andalusian Olympic Week

The new Olympic class shares stage with the ILCA in the 17th Andalusian Olympic Week that starts this Friday with 200 regatists from 13 countries

200 regatists from 13 countries compete from this Friday in the seventeenth edition of the Andalusian Olympic Week that was born 22 years ago as Carnival Trophy. La Vela replaces the focus on Gaditan waters for a high-level test that puts into play, among other titles, the Spanish Copas of the new Olympic discipline iQFOil in its male, female and youth versions Sub 21. Along with the "flying" tables, the race opens to the ILCA classes (formerly Laser); ILCA 4 and the Olympic ILCA 7 and ILCA 6 women, in both cases with the autonomous titles to decide, as well as the younger windsurfers.

The fact is that the only national champion of the iQFOil class, a discipline that has only two years of history, will be one of the hostesses, the Andalusian Pilar Lamadrid, who is also one of the great favorites of the absolute title. The other members of the pre-Olympic women's national team, the Andalusian White Manchón, the Andrea Torres ballast and the madrilel Nicole Van der Velden, are taking part in this event.

The same is true of the children, the title to which the six who make up the national bet for the Paris Games 2024, which are next to the Andalusian Fernando Lamadrid, the baleares Joan Carles Cardona and Bernat Tomas, the Galician Tomás Vieito, the canary that represented Spain in Tokyo, Ángel Granda, and the athlete of Santa Pola, Jorge Aranzueque.

In the ILCA classes, the Andalusian are the majority in the three disciplines; ILCA 7 which is the Andalusian Championship, ILCA 6 with the autonomous Cup to be raised, and ILCA 4, the last two classes that also have regatists from Guatemala, Ireland and Ukraine. The rest of the flags that will wave at the Specialized Centre for Sports Tecnification of Sailing Bay of Cadiz, headquarters of the Andalusian Federation of Sailing in the Port of Santa Maria, are those of the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, USA, Germany, Italy and Poland, all countries with representatives in the iQFOil classes.