The Spanish team achieved in the podium in the competition held at Lake Como, in Italy in Nacra... in 49er FX, Alicia Fras Elena Barrio have been septile while Marina Garau and Carlota García have finished octaves

The Spanish Iset Segura and Marcos Fernández today won the bronze medal in the Junior World Championship of the Olympic class Nacra 17. The Catalan-Galician team managed to climb the third podium drawer after the 14-test dispute in Lake Como, Italy.

The victory, unanswered, was for the Dutch van der Meer and Bouwer, who won the 14 sleeves disputed, and the second position was left to the Italians Porro and Dezulian. In third position, the Spanish tandem formed by Segura and Fernández completed the 14 sleeves of the championship with a ninth place as the worst result. The team of Nicolás Martín and Romy Mackenbrock, quarter, also competed under the Spanish flag.

In addition to the world championship of this class, the world championship of 49er and 49er junior FX has also been held. In the case of the female skiff, where mixed crews were also competing, Alicia Fras and Elena Barrio have highlighted as the best Spanish team in the seventh and ninth general position. His companions Marina Garau and Carlota García have been female octaves and decimoseconds in the general. For their part, Paula Barrio and Filippo Binetti have ended up at the 22 General.

In 49er, the best Spanish team has been the one formed by the brothers Martin and Jaime Wizner, the thirteenth. For their part, Pol Marsans and José Manuel Ruiz have finished at 18. The Spanish teams formed by Conrad Konitzer and Fernando Rodríguez (37) and Alberto Morales and Miguel Bethencourt (51) have also competed in this junior world.

2022-08-02: Spain presents 9 crews in the 49er Junior World, 49erFX and Nacra17

The races begin Wednesday at Lake Como and will continue until Sunday... four crews in 49er, three in 49er FX and two in Nacra 17 make up the Spanish team

Tomorrow they will start in Lake Como, Italy, the races corresponding to the junior World Championship of classes 49er, 49er FX and Nacra 17, in which Spain will be represented by nine crews: four in 49er, three in 49er FX and two in Nacra 17.

The teams of 49er are those formed by the Catalans Pol Marsans and José Manuel Ruiz, the baleares Conrad Konitzer and Fernando Rodríguez, the Gallegos Martin and Jaime Wizner, and the canaries Alberto Morales and Miguel Bethencourt.

In 49er FX, those responsible for defending the Spanish pavilion will be the canarian crews of Paula Barrio and Filippo Binetti, and Alicia Fras and Elena Barrio, next to the shooting of Marina Garau and Carlota García.

As for the Nacra 17, they will sail the tannems formed by the Catalans Iset Segura and Marcos Fernández, and Nicolás Martín and Romy MacKenbrock.

On the part of the Real Federación Española de Vela, the athletes are accompanied by the technicians Santi López- Vazquez, Ero Pons and Enric Noguera. The latter commented that the Spanish team comes with a desire to fight for the leading positions, with regatists who already have experience in these classes.