Vilamoura drops the curtain without being able to celebrate the latest fleet tests and the Races Medal for lack of wind

Total calm in the waters of Vilamoura to close the European Championship of 49er and 49er FX, which drops the curtain with bronze medal for the Spanish Támara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló in 49er FX and juvenile gold medal in 49er for the Wizner brothers, 11th of the European general, in which Diego Botín and Florian Trittel finish tenths.

After having to cancel the planned fleet tests, the wait has been long to try to celebrate the Races Medal of each category. The Committee has hastened to the maximum the time limit set for the completion of the Championship and as final the results of yesterday Sunday.

For Támara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló this anticipated ending meant losing all the options of reaching the silver medal at 49er FX, which is left 14 points from the Spanish in the hands of the Italian Germani and Bertuzzi. The gold has been for the Norwegian Naess and Renningen.

The canaries Alicia Fras and Elena Barrio ended at position 49, and the baleares Paula van Wieringen and Claudia Sobral in 53.

In 49er, 14 points separated Diego Botín and Florian Trittel yesterday from the longed TOP10, 15 from Martin and Jaime Wizner. The last fleet test scheduled for today in the Oro group had the key for the Spanish to access the TOP10 of the Medal Race.

With the cancellation of the last race, the Wizner brothers celebrated their position as best young men, hanging the European gold medal in this category, with the position 11 of the continental general, 14th of the Open classification. Diego Botín and Florian Trittel close the European TOP10 and are thirteenth in the general.

Martin and Jaime Wizner have been the great revelation of this Championship, being held for two days on the provisional podium and coding during the five days of regatta with the flower and cream of the international elite. The Galician regatists have claimed their anthropometric profile and their good performance in the face of the prevailing conditions, stripping among the favorite crews in the face of the 2028 Olympic Games.

Diego Botín and Florian Trittel close one of their toughest championships, in which their adaptation and learning in weak wind conditions make up the greatest asset of their balance. The Catalan-Cantabroan tandem has played a major role in the classification to end in the European TOP10. The gold has been for the French Rual and Amoros, followed by the Poles Buksak and Wierzbicki.

The baleares Albert Torres and Elías Aretz end at 33, the Catalans Pol Marsans and Juan Manuel Ruiz in 48, and the baleares Conrad Konitzer and Antonio Torrado in 85.

The next quote in the 49er, 49er and Nacra 17 calendar will be in Lanzarote the first week of March to play the 2024 World Championship.