Caterina Tomas (Sub 17) and Jordi Cerdá (Sub 15) hang two of the gold medals of the International iQFOil Games Andalucía... Barbara Winau and Antonio Medina, silver Sub 19 and 17 respectively, complete the Spanish names in podium (Photo Yepá)

The North American Noah Lyons and the Polish Zofia Noceti (Open), the Poles Aleksandra Wasiewicz and Michat Maziarka (Sub 19), the Italians Federico Alan Pilloni and Sofia Renna (Sub 21), the Portuguese Martin Mendes and the Spanish Caterina Tomas (Sub 17) and the Spanish Jordi Cerdá and the Italian Medea Marisa Falcioni (Sub 15), are the champions of the International iQFoil Games Andalucía, the second international event of the new Olympic discipline that has been held this week in the waters of the city.

Among the men, the gold medal is for the American Noah Lyons after winning in the final the Galo artist Adrien Mestre and the Italian Federico Alan Pilloni. Mestre has not been worth the great advantage accumulated since the first day and trial, falling in the final in front of the American, sportsman who adds this victory to the subchampionship achieved a week ago in the same waters in the Andalusian Olympic Week, assisted by the coach of the American team, the portuense Juan Manuel Moreno.

Pilloni, for his part, has the third absolute position and the Sub 21 championship that is taking away his compatriot Manolo Modena, the seventh absolute and second Sub 21, which has in the third place the Cypriot Jakovos Christofides. Among the finalists also sailed the Andalusian Aurelio Terry del CN Sevilla, classified in an absolute eighth place.

Surprise also in the women's fleet, where the Polish Zofia Noceti wins after imposing on her compatriot and defender of the first position, Maja Dziarnowska, second, and the Italian Sofia Renna, champion Sub 21, on the Czech Kristyna Pinosova and the Estonian Emma Viktoria Millennium, fifth and ninth, respectively.

The last race has also led to a change in the winner Sub 19, which the Polish leader Stanislaw Trepczynski was a fleet, overtaken in the final by his compatriot Michat Maziarka, who, from being fourth, hangs the gold. Trepczynski's comfort has been to defeat Latvian Davis Mazais, third.

There is no scare for the Polish Aleksandra Wasiewicz who wins to the end and hangs the gold between the girls Sub 19, escorted on the podium by the Spanish and shot Barbara Winau, who has been about to win him the last race starring both a final photo entry, and the Polish Karolina Gajdzinska, third. The other two Spaniards who have competed to the end, the Ariadna Patiño and the Andalusian Arancha Sahuquillo sign the sixth and eighth final place, respectively.

The Andalusian Antonio Medina wins second place Sub 17, staying four points away from the gold that Portuguese Martim Mendes gets. The RC's windsurfer El Candado says goodbye through the big door, winning the tenth and final race of the championship, which he arrived after a seventh and a third. Also in the top10 are the Catalan Sandro Portune (4th), the Balar Jorge Ruiz (5th), the Catalan Cesar Alonso (7th) and the Balar Jordi Cerdá, 9th absolute and champion Sub 15.

The Spanish and Balar Caterina Tomas Cardell confirms her victory among the girls Sub 17, amasada from the first day with much solvency over their opponents. Tomas is fired with two seconds and one first and wins a very strong victory over the Italian Medea Marisa Falcioni, the champion of the category Sub 15, and the Millense Azul Sánchez winner of one of the final trials, third. It is also Spanish in the tenth place, the Valencian Martina Mantovani.

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2023-03-10: Caterina Tomas, direct to the end of the iQFoil Games of the Gaditan Bay

The Andalusian Antonio Medina, Aurelio Terry and Arancha Sahuquillo; the Baleares Jorge Ruiz, Barbara Winau and Ariadna Patiño; the Catalans Sandro Portune and Cesar Alonso, the Mellillense Azul Sánchez and the Valencian Martina Mantovani will also compete in the final series (Photo Yepá)

The only good test of the day turns out to be very useful for the Andalusian Aurelio Terry, as with a third one he managed to get into the top10 that was his target today. The athlete of the CN Sevilla will continue to play tomorrow and will give it all for being in the last races, hopefully facing French Adrien Mestre, which would have meant that he would have reached the great end.

Mestre leads the exclusive group with a lot of solvency, followed by the Finnish Jakob Eklund who recovers second place after winning today's test, the Croatian Luka Mratovic, the American Noah Lyons, the Czech Karel Lavicky, the Italian and champion Sub 21, Manolo Modena, the American Geronimo Nores, the Estonian Renar Roolaht, the Italian Federico Alan Pilloni and the Spanish Aurelio Terry.

The Polish Maja Dziarnowska among women is also finalist for merit and will wait to see who will be their rival for gold. Along with it, the best positions are the Ingrid Puusta and the Polish Zofia Noceti, with a direct pass to the semi-finals, and also pass to the final round the Turkish Mlive Vatan, first Sub 21, the Cypriot Natasa Lappa, the Czech Kristyna Pinosova, the Finnish Aleksandra Blinnikka, the Italian Sofia Renna, the Polish Maja Kuchta and the Estonian Emma Viktoria classified in the tenth place.

In the Sub 19 fleet, the finalists are the Poles Stanislaw Trepczynski and Aleksandra Wasiewicz in male and female, respectively. They complete the top10 among the boys, the Polish Igor Lewinski, the Latvian Davis Mazais, the Poles Maciek Pietrzak and Michat Maziarka, the Czech David Drda, the French Antonie Martin, the Polish Konrad Machura, the Italian Mattia Saoncella and the Portuguese Ricardo Correia, tenth.

Among the women, the semi-finalists are the Polish Karolina Gajdzinska and the Czech Kristyna Chalupnikova, and also achieve their pass to the finals the Barbara Winau, the Italian Francesca María Salerno, the Italian Ariadna Patiño, the Andalusian of CN Sevilla, Arancha Sahuquillo, the Turkish Sezer Tugce Akyldiz, the Polish Martyna Duzowska and the Italian Sara Mangione.

The Spanish and Balar Caterina Tomas Cardell goes directly to the final of Sub 17 female, with the authority that give it the eleven points of advantage over the Italian, Medea Marisa Falcioni, second six points ahead of the Czech Alexandra Lojinova, third, both with direct pass to semi-finals. Also classified are the Polish Maria Rudowicz, the Mellillense Azul Sánchez, the Turkish Delfin Ada Canpolat and Ruya Ugurlu, the Italian Anna Polettini, the Hongkonese Ching Suet Yuen and the Spanish and Valencian Martina Mantovani.

Among the Sub 17 boys, the Turkish Artun Senol will wait to see who is facing tomorrow by the gold medal given his position as leader. The following are the Portuguese Martin Mendes and the Andalusian of the RC El Candado, Antonio Medina, which is classified third to only one point of the second. They complete the top10 by this order, the balar Jorge Ruiz, the windsurfer of Salou, Sandro Portune, the Poles Gustaw Trybek and Maciej Dabek, the Spanish Cesar Alonso also member of the team of the CN of Salou, the Polish Leon Jankowski and the Italian Blasco Aronica.

Tomorrow Saturday the race comes to an end with the last day reserved for the final series, exclusive for the first ten classified of each fleet. Following the race will be the delivery of trophies to the winners at the Ceremony Courtyard of the Specialized Centre for Sports Tecnification of Sela Bahia de Cadiz.

2023-03-09: iQFoil of Cadiz: tomorrow it is decided who will be at the end of the Saturday

The Caterina Tomas ballet dominates the Sub 17 fleet, which among the boys has already on podium to the Andalusian Antonio Medina (Photo Yepá)

In the third day of the International iQFOil Games Andalucía, which is held until this Saturday in the waters of the bay of Cadiz, the 15 knots of average intensity have accompanied the windsurfers.

The Friday morning will be a decisive day to close the top10 that will access the final series (medal race) on Saturday. From the first ten of each fleet, the first will go straight to the end, the second and third to the semi-end, and from the fourth to the tenth to the final quarter. It will begin at one in the afternoon and the forecast is for three to five sleeves.

The French Adrien Mestre, who remains untreatable in the fleet of men, has made 15 points to the second classified, the Croatian Luka Mratovic, which is due to his victory in the last test to be able to overcome the Finnish Jakob Eklund, now third with three more points. Both sailed very well throughout the day until the last race the Croat won with a fifth of Eklund.

Nor does the Italian Manolo Modena, who follows first Sub 21, stand out in front of his compatriots Federico Alan Pilloni and Leonardo Tomasini. Among the Spaniards, the best has again been Aurelio Terry of the CN Sevilla, which is located at a place and point of the top10 that will be its goal for tomorrow. The second and third Spanish are also Andalusian, Fernando Martínez del Cerro del CV Dársena, 13th, and Daniel Sánchez del CN Sevilla, twenty absolute and seventh Sub 21.

Emotion today among women, where this second day is worth to the Polish Maja Dziarnowska to tie the leadership over the Ingrid Puusta Estonia, although for this it has needed to give the effect that has undone the tie that matched them after the second test of the day.

Two first and one second of the Polish in front of two tenth and one second of the Estonian, leave this second with twelve more points. For its part the Polish Zofia Noceti with its first partial victory today, holds the third absolute with three more points, and follows the Turkish Mlive Vatan that follows first Sub 21, ahead of the Czech Kristyna Pinosova and the title defender, the Italian Sofia Renna.

Changes in the Sub 19 fleet, where the Polish Stanislaw Trepczynski is sent with three partial wins, a third and a second. They follow him with four and six more points, his compatriot Igor Lewinski and Latvian Davis Mazais, who loses the first position, but maintains options to recover him by the short distance and equality among the applicants.

He also loses two posts the Polish Maciek Pietrzak, now fourth with three more points. The first three Spaniards remain the Baleares Luca Casas and Javier Hernández with options to get into the top10 from the positions twelve and thirteen, respectively, and the Andalusian of the CN Puerto Sherry, Juan Pedro Guardiola, which has it more complicated since the position nineteen.

Imparable towards the triumph also sails Aleksandra Wasiewicz in the fleet of girls Sub 19, where the Polish has again won four tests. The changes come from behind, with a duel held between the Czech Kristyna Chalupnikova and the Polish Karolina Gajdzinska, which is salted with the second position of the Polish by two points.

For her part, the Spanish Barbara Winau dismarks herself from her opponents and gets into the fight for the podium, with only one point more than the Czech one. The shooting today completes its best day in which it wins a test and adds up to two seconds and a third. Also in the top10 are the Ariadna Patiño and the Andalusian of the CN Sevilla, Arancha Sahuquillo, sixth and seventh, respectively.

The Spanish Caterina Tomas Cardell makes clear her dominance in the Sub 17 fleet after winning the five trials today. Tomas already shines with eleven points of rent and remains alien to the struggle behind, among which one day the Italian Sub 15 is imposed, Medea Marisa Falcioni, six points ahead of the Czech Alexandra Lojinova, third. Two and three points from the provisional podium are located in this order, the Polish Maria Rudowicz and the Mellillense Azul Sánchez, which is now down two places, but keeps intact the options given equality with their opponents. The Sub 17 boys catch up with seven tests already on their scoreboard, after which the new leader is the Turkish Artun Senol after winning a slalom test and four trapeze or course Racing. Senol is very good about things for tomorrow, with seven points of advantage over the Portuguese Martin Mendes. Good day for the Andalusian Antonio Medina, who accesses and ensures the third place with eight points of advantage over the Jorge Ruiz, fourth. The RC "El Candado" windsurfer and only Spanish who defends title this week, is shot at the subchampionship and can dream of the triumph in the absence of a day of qualifying tests.

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2023-03-08: Exhibition of French Mestre... achieves 5 first in the iQFoil of Cadiz

The balear regatist has premiered at the top of the sub17 female classification... the Blue Melillean Sanchez is placed third Sub 17

It began the show in the Gaditana Bay, where on Wednesday it has started the International iQFOil Games Andalucía with the winds of the SW of 12 knots of medium intensity, which have allowed to give more of a visente exits between the two areas of regat. to Olympic table and to lift the flight over Gaditan waters to begin to point out for the second great goal of the season.

Impressive start of French Adrien Mestre in the senior fleet, where the galo keeps the streak that led him to win a few weeks ago in the international race of Lanzarote. Of the six tests disputed by this fleet, Mestre has only let escape one in which he was overcome by the subchampion of the Andalusian Olympic Week, the American Noah Lyons, with less luck in the rest of the tests.

With seven more points than Mestre, the second place is for the Finnish Jacob Eklund, winner of two tests, followed by five more by the Croatian Luka Mratovic. Nor does the great favorite fail in the Sub 21 fleet, the Italian subchampion of Europe, Manolo Modena, who takes over ten points to his compatriots Federico Alan Pilloni and Leonardo Tomasini, second and third, respectively. Among the Spaniards is Aurelio Terry del CN Sevilla, which is located at the doors of the demanding top10.

Among the women and after winning the first two tests, the Polish Maja Dziarnowska owes the lead to the discard of a 4th, which has allowed her the point of advantage over the Ingrid Puusta Estonia, with another partial victory today.

The third place with five and six more points is for the Polish Noceti Zofia, followed by the first Sub 21, the Turkish Mlive Vatan. Vatan today manages to stay out of the fight behind the Czech Kristyna Pinosova and the title defender, Italian Sofia Renna, second and third with a point between them.

In the Sub 19 fleet, the Latvian Davis Mazais turned his own marker on the final part of the day, winning the last three tests, thus resolving on his side the tie with the Polish Maciek Pietrzak, second.

The third place at just one point of both is for the Polish Igor Lewinski, winner of the first two tests. The three now raise the fight for the top in their fleet, with the following classified, the Polish also Michat Maziarka and the Czech David Drda, tied in the fourth and fifth place with six more points.

The first three Spaniards by this order are the Baleares Luca Casas and Javier Hernández and the Andaluz of the CN Puerto Sherry, Juan Pedro Guardiola, in the 13th, 16th and 18th positions respectively.

No option has given Polish Aleksandra Wasiewicz in the Sub 19 girls fleet winning the five tests, allowing it to boot with a comfortable seven-point advantage over the Kristyna Chalupnikova Czech, which remained second in the three trapeze tests but later failed in the slaloms.

The third position with two more points is for the Polish Karolina Gajdzinska who was best hit in the speed tests. With six more points, the fourth and fifth place is for the first Spanish, the baleares Barbara Winau and Ariadna Patiño, tied, with the third national place for the Andaluza of the CN Sevilla Arancha Sahuquillo, eighth in the general.

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Tomorrow Thursday is another day of qualifying races for all, with the first exits from 11: 00 hours to take advantage of the good wind forecast.

2023-03-07: The wind did not appear in the iQFOil Games Andalucía- Bay of Cadiz

In the Gaditana Bay... no wind... no race (Photo Yepa)

2023-03-06: 200 windsurfers from 20 countries at the QFoil Bay of Cadiz International

Tomorrow Tuesday at the edge of 12: 00 in the morning begins the event in Gaditan waters (Photo Yepa)

The show is still in Gaditana Bay and, when just a week has passed from the celebration of the Andalusian Olympic Week, it is now the iQFOil class that claims all the leading role, in view of the second edition of the most important event of the new Olympic discipline of Windsurfing that premiere at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

In this way, the bay of Cadiz continues to focus the attention of the Olympic sailing, with the celebration from Tuesday March 7 to Saturday 11, of the second event of the season of the international circuit of the iQFOil class, the International iQFOil Games Andalucía- Bay of Cadiz, organized by the Andalusian Federation of Vela, which come around 200 windsurfers from more than 20 countries and among them, some of the best athletes on the planet.

As with the Mistral and RS: X tables, the bay of Cadiz has become one of the fetiche places for the practice of this new Olympic modality, and the Andalusian Federation of Sailing and the Specialized Centre of Sports Tecnification of Sailing, in a reference in the organization of races that have this class as its protagonist.

In view of the race that begins on Tuesday, among the men the list of favorites includes French Adrien Mestre, recent winner of the international race of Lanzarote, Finnish Jacob Eklund and the American team led by Gerónimo Nores and the subchampion of the Andaluza Olympic Week, Noah Lyon. In Sub 21, the looks are set on the Italian Manolo Modena, the first edition of the first edition in the category Sub 19, already competing in the upper fleet.

Among the women, the numerous Sub 21 fleet, among which in principle the Italian and Czech fleet that arrive in Cadiz after having competed a lot among them in the lower category, is drawn attention. The Turkish woman Mlive Vatan, the title defender, the Italian woman Sofia Renna, the winner of last year in the category Sub 19, the Czech woman Nela Sadilkova, and among the senior, the Finnish woman Aleksandra Blinnikka, also stand out.

In the national fleet, the young Antonio Medina of the RC El Candado is the only Spanish to defend title and will do so in the category Sub 17 in front of other favorites such as the Catalan Sandro Portune, member of the team of the CN Salou that goes in full to the Gaditana Bay. Among the girls Sub 17, together with the title defender, the Polish Maria Rudowicz, stands out the Mellillense Azul Sánchez Vallejo, in full evolution in this class after being a champion of the world of Techno last year.

In the male fleet Sub 19 the most prominent of the nationals is a priori Javier Hernández Perelló de la balear, as well as Luca Casas that also points to ways. Among the Andalusians, the windsurfer of the RC El Candado, Ángel Medina, a great favorite after being the best Spanish a week ago in the same waters, or Arturo Arauz of the CN Puerto Sherry, among others. In girls, Barbara Winau and Ariadna Patiño, both baleares, have been very good at last year's European championship in Garda, and the Andalusian Arancha Sauquillo of the CN Sevilla, which is the most merit to take a place in the quinielas.

Finally, among the elders, the hopes are set in the Andalusian Fernando Martínez del Cerro (CV Dársena), Curro Manchón and Aurelio Terry (CN Sevilla) and the windsurfer of CN Puerto Sherry, Alejandro Arauz. The Andalusian people take the quinquielas in the Spanish goal in the absence of the members of the national Olympic team, also the female team, who already prepare in Palma de Mallorca the Princess Sofia Trophy, first test of selection for the July event test in the waters of Marseille.