With Paris 2024 to just two and a half years, the new classes have a dramatically short period of time to get ready. All will be premiered in the Princess Sofia Mallorca Trophy, which will first host the kitesurf in its two variants: Formula Kite Men (77 registered) and Formula Kite Women (39 registered)

The 51 Princess Sofia Mallorca Trophy will be the premiere of a new era of the Olympic candle from April 1 to 9... Paris 2024 applicants have responded to the call in a massive way, aware of the urgency of progress in an Olympic cycle of just three years against the usual four-year period. A participation that is around 800 ships and over 1,000 regatists of 62 nationalities shows that there is a great deal of desire for Sofia.

The fleet will compete between Monday, April 4, and Saturday 9 distributed in ten classes: four female (49erFX, ILCA 6, Formula Kite Women and iQFoil Women), four male (49er, ILCA 7, Formula Kite Men and iQFoil Men) and two mixed (470 and Nacra 17).

Among the fleet of Formula Kite Men will not miss the current world champion, the French Theo de Ramecourt, nor some of its top rivals, such as his compatriots Nico Parlier and Benoit Gómez, or the Italian Riccardo Pianosi, third in the last world, at only 16 years old. Among the girls, American Daniela Moroz comes as the current world champion, but she faces a hard opposition led by French Poema Newland, young Israeli girl Gal Zukerman (15 years old) or Spanish Gisela Pulido, who premiere in discipline after raising ten world crowns infreestyle.

Second in the performance ranking will be the new iQFoil, the flying windsurfing class (with foils) chosen to replace the RS: X of the last four Olympic cycles. The fleet of almost 100 participants in its male variant (iQFoil Men) includes Angel Granda among the 24 registered Spaniards; the last RS Olympic champion: X, Dutch Kiran Badloe; and other great names from the previous Olympic table, such as Italian Mattias Camboni, French Louis Giard or British Tom Squires. Participation in female mode (iQFoil Women) exceeds 70 registered, including the Spanish Pilar Lamadrid (second in the world ranking) and Nicole Van der Velden, the British Emma Wilson or the Brazilian Giovanna Prada.

The Laser will compete under the acronyms ILCA (International Laser Class Association), renamed ILCA 6 in the female category (former Laser radial) and ILCA 7 in male. These are the most numerous fleets of the event (174 men and 95 women). In ILCA 7 he will compete the whole Tokyo podium: Australian champion Matt Wearn, Croatian subchampion Tucci Stipanovic and Norwegian bronze Hermann Tomasgaard, as well as the world champion, New Zealand champion Tom Saunders. The participation of local hero Joan Cardona, Finn-category bronze in Tokyo 2020, which will be part of the numerous Spanish representation in ILCA 7: 27 regatists, is noteworthy. In the female category, the three best ranked from the last world: the Belgian champion Emma Plasschaert, the Polish subchampion Agata Barwinska and the Lithuanian Viktorija Andrulyte. The Canaria Martina Reino leads the national ranking among a Spanish representation of 21 ships.

The two modalities of the fast skiff 49er will have the best regatists of the specialty, including the current Olympic champions and the world in their two categories: 49er (male, with 77 registered) and 49erFX (female, with 58). This event highlights the premiere of the new official material for the next Games and the interesting changes in some of the major crews: British Olympic champion Dylan Fletcher premiere, and will compete on rival ships the Dutch world champions of 2021 (Bart Lambriex and Pim van Vugt) and Danish representatives in Tokyo 2020 (2008 Olympic champion Jonas Warrer and Jakob Precht).

In the female 49erFX, the Brazilian duo formed by Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze, Olympic champions in 2016 and 2020, and the world fleet's highest reference, is back to defend title in Mallorca. The Pallegos Patricia Suárez and María Cantero are the Spanish ones that arrive with the best palmarés.

The traditional 470 premiered in Mallorca its new mixed crew mode, which has led to a cocktail of crews within the national squads. The tannems formed by the Spanish Jordi Xammar (bronze in Tokyo) and Nora Brugman, the French Kevin Peponnet (world champion) and Aloise Retordaz (bronze in Tokyo), or the British Martin Wrigley and Eilidh McIntyre (champion in Tokyo), stand out.

In Nacra 17, the only catamaran among the ten Olympic classes will compete for the glory of Sofia the medalists of the last Olympics: the Italians Ruggero Tita and Carerina Banti (gold), the British John Gimson and Anna Burnet (silver), and the Germans Paul Kohlhoff and Alica Stuhlemmer (bronze). Among its rivals is the team formed by the Argentine legend Santiago Lange (gold in Rio 2016) and Victoria Trasvascio.

The competition program will start on Monday, April 4, for classes ILCA 6, ILCA 7, 470, iQFoil Men and iQFoil Women. It will begin on Tuesday, day 5, for 49er, 49erFX, Formula Kite Men, Formula Women and Nacra 17. They'll all end on Saturday, April 9. The previous weekend, from 1 to 3, will be the traditional race of cruises and monotypes, open to the classes Dragon, ORC, J70, J80 and Musto Skiff, which will decide in Mallorca its European Championship.

2022-03-30: Presented in Palma the 51 Trophy Princess Sofia Mallorca

The main authorities of Mallorca have attended the official presentation of the 51 Trophy S.A.R. Princess Sofia Mallorca, held today at the Hotel Iberostar Selection Llaut in Palma. The president of the Govern Balear, Francina Armengol; the president of the Mallorca Turisme Foundation, Andreu Serra; and the mayor of Palma, José Hila, have shown with their presence institutional support for the race, considered the world reference of Olympic classes. From 1 to 9 April, more than a thousand regatists from 62 countries who aspire to the Paris Games 2024 will meet in the Bay of Palma

From 1 to 9 April, the bay of Palma will be filled with candles... with the celebration of 51 Trophy Princess Sofia Mallorca under the joint organization of the Club Nàutic S'Arenal, the Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa, the Real Club Náutico de Palma, the Real Federación Española de Vela and the Federation Balear de Vela, with the support of the Govern Balear, The Fundación Mallorca Turisme Mallorca, AETIB, Mallorca Illes Balears, Ajuntment de Palma, Ajuntment de Llucmajor and Ports de Balears.

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