The first event of the year of the world Olympic windsurfing, with 150 participants from 35 countries, has come to an end today in Lanzarote... the Andalusian Pilar Lamadrid, number 1 of the world ranking, has managed to pass to the final and to seal definitely the one that is his first victory of the season and second consecutive on the Canary island... the Polish Pawel Tarnowski gives the bell and achieves victory after a final infarction (Photo Sailing Energy)

The iQFOiL Games have been fired on Saturday with a day of infarction and fantastic conditions of 15 to 20 knots of wind somewhat changing in direction, which has only added emotion to how each Olympic windsurfer would play his cards in the fantastic Ranzarote field.

These ingredients have been played in the waters of the Canary Island the Medal Series, in which only the 10 best classified have participated, and which have culminated in an end to everything or nothing in which they have competed only the three best in the male and female category. Pawel Tarnowski (POL) has been victorious of it and is proclaimed champions of the iQFoil Games 2023.

After a large semifinal, the only Spanish in the Medal Series, Pilar Lamadrid, and the Israeli Shahar Tibi have managed to move to the Final to face it the provisional leader, Sharon Kantor (ISR), automatically classified yesterday... Pilar showed aplomo at all times, with a good way out and passing the first beacon of the course in the head, a position he no longer abandoned, crossing the line of arrival in the first place and winning in the lanzarote iQFOIL Games.

Israel takes the second and third podium drawer, with Shahar Tibi in the second square while the young Sharon Kantor, second and first throughout the championship, takes the bronze.

After the quarterfinals and the semi-finals, Polish Pawel Tarnowski and the current iQFoil European champion, French Nicolas Goyard, were able to access the Final. In it they have faced the British Sam Sills, who has clearly dominated the entire championship by winning more than half of the tests he has played these days.

With a classification system in which sportsmen play all at one card in the Final, any unexpected is paid expensive, although the emotion is served. And that's what we saw today 20 meters from the arrival line.

Sam Sills and Pawel Tarnowski approached the arrival at high speed, with the Polish leading the time the British approached him dangerously. Right at that time, 20 meters from the end, Tarnowski goes to the water and a second later does Sills, while French Nico Goyard continues to them in third place.

The Polish wins, for the first time in his career, a test of the iQFOil Games. Happy, he wanted to dedicate victory to his wife and to his future first son.

The final award was given by the presence of María Martín, Lanzarote European Sports Destination; representatives of the City Council of Yaiza, Daniel Medina - councillor of Youth and Culture - and Ángel Domínguez - councillor of Turismo -; Ron Meir, president of the iQFOil class; Felipe Brito, vice-president of the Royal Canary Federation of Vela and Rafael Lasso, CEO of Marina Rubicón.

This international event has been organized by Marina Rubicón with the support of the Royal Canary Federation of Vela and has been possible thanks to the institutional sponsorship of Promotur Turismo de Canarias with the funding of the REACTEU Fund and of Tourism of the Cabildo de Lanzarote through the sports product European Sports Destination (managed by SPEL-Tourism Lanzarote), as well as the public collaboration of the City of Yaiza and the private entities Dinghycoach, Naviera Armas and Cabrera Medina (Cicar).

FINAL Podium. iQFOil Female (66)

1. Lamadrid Pilar (ESP)
2. Shahar Tibi (ISR)
3. Sharon Kantor (ISR)

FINAL Podium. iQFOil Male (84)

1. Pawel Tarnowski (POL)
2. Sam Sills (GBR)
3. Nicolas Goyard (FRA)

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2023-01-27: The lanzarote iQFOil Games with the medals series in sight

Penultimate day, which has been used to define who will be in tomorrow's Medal Series to fight for a hole in the most final... Sam Sills (GBR) and Sharon Kantor (ISR) pass directly to her by already securing a post on the podium of the first world event of the iQFoil season, the Olympic class of windsurfing in Paris 2024

The iQFOil Games have celebrated the fourth and penultimate day of competition in which the slalom format has also come into play: an explosive and super fast race.

No change in the female provisional podium, formed one more day by Sharon Kantor (ISR), Pilar Lamadrid (ESP) and Katy Spychakov (ISR). The three have won their respective slalom tests and are clearly separated from the rest of the fleet, especially the current leader and Andalusian.

Both have clearly made the difference these days, but everything is completely open for tomorrow Saturday as Lamadrid and Spychakov still have to ensure the pass to the Grand Final, and from this one, the one that crosses the line of arrival in the first place will be the winner of this edition of the Lanzarote iQFoil Games.

The Spanish Nicole van der Velden has signed a third place on one of the sleeves of the day and remains at the gates of the Medal Series at the end of the eleventh of the general.

The Olympic subchampion in Tokyo, the French Thomas Goyard, and the Israeli Yoh Omer have imposed themselves on the slalom test, a victory that has however been insufficient for them to be able to move on to the Medal Series.

Sam Sills (GBR), leader in Lanzarote from the first day, managed to move directly to the Grand Final, even if he had not had his best day: (DNC / 43) - (31) -12-1. The current world champion of iQFOil, Sebastian Kördel (GER) also manages to enter the Medal Series from the tenth provisional square.

Provisional general podium. iQFOil Feminino. Day 4 (66)
1. Sharon Kantor (ISR), 2 + 2 + 1 + 2 + (8) + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + (27) + (6) + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 19
2. Lamadrid (ESP) pillar, 1 + 1 + 6 + 1 + (17) + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 + (20) + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 27
3. Katy Spychakov (ISR), 3 + 3 + 2 + (13) + 9 + 4 + 3 + (37) + 11 + 1 + 1 + (13) + 12 + 6 + 5 = 64

Provisional general podium. iQFOil Male. Day 4 (84)
1. Sam Sills (GBR), 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + (11.5) + 5 + 4 + 1 + 1 + (DNC / 43) + (31) + 12 + 1 = 30
2. Nicolas Goyard (FRA), 2 + (13) + 6 + (8) + 1 + 1 + 1.5 + 1.5 + 2 + (30) + 15 + 9 + 3 + 13 + (20) = 57
3. Tom Reuveny (ISR), 1 + 6 + 1 + (19) + (20) + 6 + 3.5 + 3.5 + 7 + 1 + 11 + 7 + (23) + 10 + 1 + (19) = 58

2023-01-26: Pilar Lamadrid is second in the equator of the Lanzarote iQFOil

The first test of this year's Olympic flying windsurfing has reached its equator today
with change in the female general. Sharon Kantor (ISR) is the new leader to the detriment of
the Andalusian Pilar Lamadrid, which passes to the second square, that is, only two points. Sam.
Sills (GBR) is still unbeatable in the male fleet... tomorrow, penultimate day

Third day of competition of the Lanzarote iQFOil Games and third day with all the tests completed... with four new tests for the 66 women participants, who today have changed the field of race to sail on the nearest to the beach of Papagayo.

As she said yesterday, the Israeli windsurfer Sharon Kantor has had a nice fight with the Spanish Pilar Lamadrid since the first day and today, after two days to two and one point of it, she has managed to pass it... at only 20 years old, Kantor, who already won yesterday's marathon, took the cat to the water in the first two races while in the next two years she was relegated by her compatriot Katy Spychakov, third of the general.

As for the rest of the Spaniards in the fleet, Nicole van der Velden is able to climb positions day by day and is eleventh after this third day. The Majorcan Andrea Torres, of the CN Arenal and champion of Spain sub-21, is eighth in the youth classification and thirty-second in the absolute.

For the third day in a row, Sam Sills (GBR) is able to be at the top of the general, with two new partial wins, and there are eight of 11. The British is 20 points away from his maximum persecutor, Nicolas Goyard (FRA), with one lime and one sand on this third day: 2-2-29-15.

As for the Spaniards, there were two who succeeded in passing to the gold group yesterday: the Galician of the CN Rodeira, Tomás Vieito (39º), and the Mallorcan Nacho Baltasar of the CN Sa Rápita. The latter occupies a second meritorious place in the youth classification and is 29th of the absolute.

Tomorrow Friday, the last day of the Lanzarote iQFOil Games, the 150 competitors are expected to play four more races. The tests will start at 14: 00 peninsular time.

Provisional general podium. iQFOil Feminino. Day 3 (66)

1. Sharon Kantor (ISR), 2 + 2 + 1 + 2 + (8) + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + (27) + 6 = 19
2. Lamadrid pillar (ESP), 1 + 1 + 6 + 1 + (17) + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 + (20) = 21
3. Katy Spychakov (ISR), 3 + 3 + 2 + (13) + 9 + 4 + 3 + 3 + (39) + 11 + 1 + 1 = 40

Provisional general podium. iQFOil Male. Day 3 (84)

1. Sam Sills (GBR), (1) + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + (11.5) + (11.5) + 4 + 1 + 1 = 12
2. Nicolas Goyard (FRA), 2 + (13) + 6 + (8) + 1 + 1 + 1.5 + 1.5 + 2 + 2 + (29) + 15 = 32
3. Tom Reuveny (ISR), 1 + 6 + 1 + (19) + (20) + 6 + 3.5 + 3.5 + 7 + 1 + (11) + 7 = 36

2023-01-25: Pilar Lamadrid (Spain) and Sam Sills (United Kingdom) command at the Lanzarote IQFOil

British windsurfer Sam Sills, master and master of the first day in Lanzarote

The Andalusian Olympic windsurfer Lamadrid flies with authority on the first day of the race in Lanzarote while the British Sam Sills gives no choice to its rivals and wins the four tests of the day.

First day of navigation of the Lanzarote iQFOil Games, proof that opens the 2023 season of which will be new Olympic class in Paris 2024.

The male windsurfer who has recorded the highest speed during the tests has been the current world champion, the German Sebastian Kördel, with 30.2 knots, while the Galician Tomás Vieito has been the eighth fastest, with 29.2 knots. In the case of girls, the British Alice Read has reached 25.8 knots.

The 66 female participants sailed in a single fleet in the race field located in the Bocayna Strait, opposite the port of Marina Rubicón.

The current number 1 world ranking, Pilar Lamadrid, starts strong in the iQFOil Games Lanzarote, winning three tests of four with a remarkable advantage over their pursuers. The Andalusian sailed trying to catch the best rachas, choosing the most favored side of the field, but without losing sight of the rest of the competitors, especially the Israeli squadron, who completes the top 5 of the provisional general.

Sharon Kantor, of Israel, took the cat into the water in that third test, while in the rest he crossed the arrival line in second position. This good performance is now left two points away from Lamadrid and 16 points ahead of his compatriot Katy Spychakov.

With over 80 participants, the male category has today sailed in two fleets (yellow and blue) off Papagayo beach, south of Lanzarote Island.

Imbatible the British Sam Sills, double world champion when he was a youth windsurfer and an accomplished athlete of the old Olympic class RS: X. With four wins in the four races of the yellow fleet, he is the first male provisional leader of the iQFOil Games 2023 Lanzarote.

The Polish Pawel Tarnowski, silver at the last iQFOil event in 2022 - the iQFOil Games of Terceira - is second provisional after a 2-4-3-2 partial achieved by competing in the blue fleet. The first day's male provisional podium is closed by Israeli Tom Reuveny.

Among the Spanish representatives, the best position is the Mallorcan Nacho Baltasar, which occupies the third provisional square between the young and the thirty-fourth of the absolute.

This international event organized by Marina Rubicón with the support of the Real Federación Canaria de Vela is possible thanks to the institutional sponsorship of Promotur Turismo de Canarias with the funding of the Fund REACTEU and Tourism of the Cabildo de Lanzarote through the sports product European Sports Destination (managed by SPEL- Tourism Lanzarote). In addition, it has the public collaboration of the City of Yaiza and of private entities such as Dinghicoach, Naviera Armas or Cabrera Medina (Cicar), among others.

Provisional general podium. iQFOil Feminino. Day 1 (66 participants)

1. Lamadrid Pillar (ESP), 1 + 1 + (6) + 1 = 3
2. Sharon Kantor (ISR), (2) + 2 + 1 + 2 = 5
3. Katy Spychakov (ISR), 3 + 3 + 2 + (13) = 21

Provisional general podium. iQFOil Male. Day 1. (80 participants)

1. Sam Sills (GBR), (1) + 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
2. Pawel Tarnowski (POL), 2 + (4) + 3 + 2 = 7
3. Tom Reuveny (ISR) 1 + 6 + 1 + (19) = 8

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