Pulido, who has been a ten-time world champion of kitesurf freestyle, decided two years ago to jump into the Olympic candle. Same concept but different philosophy. Moving from doing tricks and jumps to having to learn race regulations and compete in fleet tests

The Spanish Gisela Pulido has finished her first Olympic season with a European bronze medal and in the top 10 of the world of Formula Kite, the category of kitesurf that will debuts at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

In the Formula Kite World Championship this week in Sardinia, Italy, Gisela Pulido has ended in the 10th general position and has been the seventh best regatist by country. After six days of competition, Pulido managed to enter the semifinal of the world but did not access the final to four, ending in the tenth position with which he had closed the fleet races.

Everything learned this season and the progress made in recent years will be of vital importance for the world of Olympic class sailing in 2023. This will be held in August in The Hague and will be the first eight places in the country of Formula Kite women to compete in Paris 2024.

This year's Formula Kite World Cup has had a wide Spanish representation: five men and two women. The result of Gisela Pulido, the tenth female classified, has been the most prominent, followed by Alex Climate's 23 in the male fleet. In addition, Adelaide Marquenie (43) has also competed in the female fleet, while in the male category Bernat Cortés (32), Kiko Peiró (43), Jacobo Espí (49) and Sebastián Ducos (58) have sailed.

2022-10-15: The Catalan Gisela Polished to the Semifinals of the World Cup of Formula Kite

Today's Saturday day has been decisive in closing the top 10 of regatists who will choose a medal

Gisela Polido will compete tomorrow, in the semifinal of the World Championship of Formula Kite, proof that is taking place this week in Cagliari, Italy.

Gisela Polido has accessed one of the two semi-finals, in which they compete from the third to the tenth, although it has done so with zero wins. The first of the group part with two and the second with one; the series is concluded when a regatist manages to add three wins.

The American Daniela Moroz, first, and the French Lauriane Nolot, second, pass directly to the final, in which will also be the winners of the two semifinals.

In the male category, Alejandro Citation, the only Spanish representative in the gold group, has been ranked in position 23 of the final general.

Tomorrow Gisela Polido will face three other regatists in one of the semifinals in search of the pass to the final four after which will be decided the podium of the world championship of Formula Kite, the new Olympic sailing modality.

2022-10-13: Polishing and Citation pass to the gold group of the World Cup of Formula Kite

The Catalan Gisela Pulido rises to the fifth female position
The Valencian Alex Client is kept at position 22 male

Two Spaniards, Gisela Pulido and Alex Citation, have got the pass to the gold group of the World Cup of Formula Kite after three days of competition marked by weather instability. The race, which is taking place in Cagliari, Italy, began on Tuesday, 11 and will end on Sunday, 16 with the medal series.

The first day was resolved with four tests completed but on the second day a blur and the little wind of the afternoon left the fleet uncompetitive. Today, Thursday 13, the female class only added one more race and the male class was able to perform two tests before the day was closed.

Gisela Polido has taken advantage of the only manga of the day of the female fleet to step up a step in the classification and set the last part of the championship from the fifth general position. The Catalan is 16 points, one less than the third and fourth, the German Meyer and the British Dabson respectively. In the first position, the American Daniela Moroz remains untreatable, with five wins in five trials. The second position is for the French Lauriane Nolot, with four wins and a second place.

Adelaide Marquenie has also taken up a post, occupies 36, but has been left out of the gold group, reserved for the first 25 regatists.

In the male category, Alex Citation remains at the 22nd place of the general, getting to pass the cut of the gold group to face the next two days fighting for a site in the final series of Sunday. His partner Bernat Cortés has managed to remount three steps in the general and has been located at position 26, just behind the cut of the gold group.

In this way, tomorrow Cortés will sail in the silver group next to Jacobo Espi (44) and Kiko Peiró (54). Sebastian Ducos (67) will do it in bronze. The leader of the male fleet is for the Slovenian Toni Vodisek.

With the first three days completed, the Formula Kite World Cup enters the second phase. There are two days of fleet competition ahead before facing the final stage of Sunday, reserved for the ten best regatists in each category.