A great Lamadrid Pilar ends fifth in the iQFoil World Cup
A great Lamadrid Pilar ends fifth in the iQFoil World Cup
The regatist of the pre-Olympic team places Spain in fourth position by country at the end of this season (Photo Eric Ballade)
Brest fired the iQFoil World Championship with a day of medium winds to celebrate the Medal Series, after which the Spanish Pilar Lamadrid ended with a fifth place in the general, fourth in each country.
Pilar Lamadrid, only Spanish in the Top10 that today decided the world podium, sailed directly in Semifinals after taking the third position of the classification in the Final Series. With a brilliant exit, Lamadrid was looking for the Top2 to give the pass to the Grand Final to three, but the conditions of the race field did not favour the tactical choice chosen by the Andalusian that closed the world's world in the fifth position of the general.
The second Spanish regatist in the group Oro, Nicole van der Velden, ended yesterday at the 24th, while Jorge Aranzueque was the first Spanish in the male fleet, in 12th position, occupying the seventh country position, a good achievement also for the boys of the Spanish pre-Olympic team. Tomas Vieto, also in the gold group, was twenty-fourth. The female world title is for the Italian Marta Maggetti and for the German Sebastian Koerdel in male.
In the male fleet, Jorge Aranzueque finished yesterday at post 12 of the General, only four points away from having got the pass to the Medal Series today. The summary of the Valencian regatist placed Spain in the sixth country position, a result to take into account for the world Olympic class of 2023 where the first country squares for the Paris Games 2024 will be distributed.
2022-10-21: Pilar Lamadrid reoccupies podium position of the iQFoil World Cup
Four slalom tests allow the Spanish to return to the top3 of the world fleet for tomorrow's decisive day (Photo Eric Ballade)
The iQFoil World Championship that is taking place in Brest today has added four new sleeves after which Pilar Lamadrid returns to podium positions in the third position of the general. His teammate, Nicole van der Velden, is 21 and Andrea Torres is 47, all in the Oro group.
The Committee has opted for the slalom format in the four tests held, in which Lamadrid has accumulated a partial of 1-3-1-11, entering again the game of the fleet's head to continue fighting for victory point by point.
The Dutch Lilian de Geus is the new leader, with a six-point advantage over the Israeli Shahar Tibi and eleven over Lamadrid, a distance that, as has been demonstrated today, leaves open all the possibilities of achieving the world title for the Spanish one.
The male fleet also adds four new tests in its lockers, after which Jorge Aranzueque is held in the head of the Spanish group Oro at position 12, five points from Top10 that he will try to reach to enter the Medal Race. Tomás Vieito is 32nd of a table that continues to be led by the German Koerdel.
2022-10-19: Complicated day for Pilar Lamadrid in the iQFoil World Cup
Lamadrid today had a fall before the first test that delayed his position with respect to the rest of the participants, without the possibility to reassemble during the course of the race
Day of races in Brest waters to add four new tests to the iQFoil World Championship, after which Pilar Lamadrid is placed sixth in the provisional general after an irregular day in its results.
Pilar Lamadrid remains the main Spanish player in this world, although the results of the day prevent him from maintaining the position of leader with which he premiered the championship.
In the following sleeves, Pilar added top10, 8-10, but a wind well in one of the maneuvers of the last sleeve prevented him from maintaining that tonic of results. Pilar Lamadrid is in the sixth position of the general, and Nicole van der Velden is 15th, and Andrea Torres 45, with the British Emma Wilson as new leader.
In the male fleet, spectacular dating back to Jorge Aranzueque, up to the tenth position, three points from Top10. The second Spanish is Tomás Vieito, in position 27. A change of leader also in the male fleet that today leads the German Sebastian Koerdel.
2022-10-16: It begins in French waters, in Brest... the World Cup of IQFoil
The Vigués Bieito that competes for the club of Cangas, one of the great Spanish bazas
The great quote of the season in the iQFoil class begins this Monday, a day marked in red on the Pilar Lamadrid calendar, to try to put the heading to which it is currently being the best year of its career.
In full sports maturity the Sevillian windsurfer established in El Puerto de Santa María faces the Brest World Championship on the French west coast, with the intention of improving if possible the fourth place reached the past course in this competition to achieve a new podium that will consolidate it at the top of the international scale of the new Olympic discipline of the tables.
In the World Championship, whose measurements of material and confirmation of participants have started this weekend and will fight their tests until Saturday, Pilar Lamadrid will have to do with a fleet of more than a hundred tables. Among them, the best specialists in the iQFOil class, including the current world and European champion, the French Helene Noesmoen, will not miss the powerful British, Israeli or Chinese regatists, among other rivals.
In front of it six days of competition and sleeves planned in popa- dyed, slalom and marathon format that will culminate with the Medal Race, reserved for the first ten classified of the final series and that will include final and semi-final rooms.
The recent death of Lamadrid's coach in his childhood and youth stage, the Sevillian Ricardo Carracedo, is a further incentive to seek a good result with which to honor the memory of the technician with whom he precisely debuted in the race field of Brest, almost a decade ago on the occasion of a youth European Championship of the RS: X class in 2013.
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