Image of the departure of a race of the new Olympic class iQFoil (Photo Sailing Energy)

The 2023 season is about to start for the Olympic sailing and the Spanish team will face a key year for Paris 2024. 20 months from the Games, the first country squares to be on the most important international sport event will be distributed this August in the World Cup in The Hague.

All this year's work focuses, in the first instance, on this world of Olympic classes that will be held from 10 to 20 August in the Dutch city. This milestone on the way will serve to seal the first country tickets to be in Paris 2024. The Olympic modalities of the country that do not qualify will have new opportunities throughout the 2023 and 2024 season.

To get to this point, the exit will be marked by two races on the island of Lanzarote: the iQGames of the new class of flying windsurfing, to be held next week, and the Lanzarote International Regatta, meeting point of most Olympic classes and where the participation of the main crews is expected, from 11 to 17 February.

The next stop will be the classic Princess Sofia Trophy in Mallorca, a race that has already exceeded fifty years and remains the favorite race of the Olympic. The Mallorcan test usually brings together more than a thousand regatists, one of the most important quotes in the calendar. The Spanish team, at both the Olympic and youth levels, will come to the full, as for them it is a key competition in the composition of the national team.

The international fleet will then cross the Mediterranean to settle in the south of France and to fight, at the end of April, the French Olympic Week in Hyeres, a city very close to Marseilles, the Sailor of Paris 2024.

Before the dispute of the cited World Olympic Class, the calendar shows three continental meetings: the European Championships of the classes ILCA 6 & 7, from 10 to 17 March in Italy; iQFoil, from 8 to 14 May in Greece; and 470, from 12 to 20 May in Italy.

After the Hague World Cup, and with the first country squares already decided, in the following Europeans the unclassified countries will have a new opportunity to get on the Paris 2024 exit line. In September the Formula Kite will compete for the continental scepter in Portsmouth between 18 and 24 September. And classes 49er, FX and Nacra 17 will do the same in Vilamoura from 8 to 13 November.