Spanish Youth Team in The Hague (Photo: Sailing Energy)

Spain will compete in the Youth Sailing World Championship with representation in all the participating classes, which means eleven crews from among the 304 registered from 69 countries. The race will begin today Sunday, and will be held until next Thursday in The Hague, the Netherlands.

In Formula Kite they will compete the Valencian Carlos Espí and the shooting Zoe Fernández. Spi went directly from Optimist to the comet with foils and was tenth in this year's AS Youth Foil world. For his part, Zoe Fernández has joined this discipline after his passage through the windsurfing Techno 293 +, a class in which he won bronze in the youth world of 2021.

At iQFoil Youth they will represent Spain the Balar Nacho Baltasar and the Catalan Julia Gómez. Both regatists are the most prominent at the national level, with Baltasar being the Spanish champion sub 21, a 17-year-old title, and Gómez champion sub 19.

The ILCA 6 will count on the David Ponseti and the Valencian Claudia Adam. Both regatists finished on Wednesday, July 6, the youth European championship of their class with a prominent fourth square, tied to points with Claudia's third.

Also with the very recent European championship, the 29th in The Hague. In this case, Martina Lodos and Martina Diaz- Salguero arrive as current continental champions, and Mateo and Simón Codoñer as the fifth best team of the European. In addition, in this competition Spain was raised with the Nations Cup that recognizes the best country in the championship.

In 420 the baleal crews formed by Maria Perelló and Marta Cardona, and Marc Mesquida and Ramón Jaume will defend the Spanish pavilion. The women's team is the champion of the world and of Europe sub 17 and the male won the bronze sub 17 in the European youth of 2021.

In addition, the Catalan brothers Daniel and Nora García de la Casa will compete in Nacra 15, the flying catamarans in which the young people start sailing before making the leap to the Olympic category.

The Spanish expedition will be led by the technicians Toni Rivas and Javi Serrano. Today the tests will begin at sea and the competition is expected to take place until Thursday 17, the day the new world champions will be met and the Nations Trophy will be delivered, the award to the country with the best global results.