Marina Rubicón inaugurates the international calendar for the third consecutive year with the first races of the world scene: the iQFOiL Games Lanzarote and the Lanzarote International Regatta, with 36 national teams from five continents that will compete ahead in the race towards Paris 2024

The island of volcanoes is again the meeting point for the Olympic sailing... this year, Marina Rubicón starts the race towards Paris 2024 with the gunshot of the second edition of the world circuit of the iQFOiL Games Lanzarote 2023, which is held from 23 to 28 January and the third edition of the Lanzarote International Regatta 2023 from 9 to 17 February.

The choice of the island by the regatists year after year shows that Lanzarote and Marina Rubicón have already been consolidated as the pre-Olympic winter training base. After more than a month and a half of training races, the first official race will be the iQFOiL Games Lanzarote, where more than 170 regatists from more than 30 countries will compete.

In the female category, the favorite is the Spanish Pilar Lamadrid, although it will have to compete with the powerful teams of Britain, the Netherlands, France, China or Germany, among which there are already 70 registered.

Following the iQFOiL Games, Marina Rubicón will give way to other Olympic classes in the second official event of the international season: the International Regatta Lanzarote from 9 to 17 February where the classes will compete: Nacra 17 (mixed double class), 470 (mixed double class), 49er (male double class), 49er FX (female double class) and iQFOiL (male and female categories).