The teams of the nautical of La Coruña and Vigo took the first two squares (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña was proclaimed winner of the third edition of the Isabel Zendal Cidade da Coruña Regata, the first event of the Rías Altas version of the Abanca Week that organizes the Nautico Coruñés. The Herculine team was capitalized by the Olympic gold medal in London, Sofia Toro, who had an excellent crew that also included Arancha Rivero, Marta Torres and Victoria Pintos..

The Socorro Toro's made use of the results of Saturday in which they achieved two victories in the three sleeves held, leaving the second place for the winning club in the last edition... to the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, which on this occasion presented one of the young values that with the greatest projection has the Galician candle: Daniela Mariño, who together with Rosalía Garcia, María Núñez, Ines Ameneiro and Paloma Martínez, formed a compact team that was very much toned.

The vines were therefore made with the silver after a victory and two seconds (while the coruñesas reached two first and one second). The bronze was for the representatives of the Andalusian candle, the girls of the Nautico of Puerto Sherry with a large crew captains by Susana Ridao (which is one of the Andalusian regatists with the highest projection that is number two in class 420 in the autonomous ranking) in which also were Miriam Tortosa Montalvo, Ana Sánchez Corrales, Maria Fernández Sánchez and Marina-Martín Prat Medina.

The teams of La Coruña, Vigo and Puerto Sherry podio de la Isabel Zendal (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The Sunday day on which the final round should have been held was blank, in view of the impossibility of any proof being held in the face of the manifest lack of wind. The team of judges of the Royal Galician Federation of Vela, who had as the chief regatta officer in the veteran Ferrolano judge Pedro Fernández Alarcón, did everything possible to complete some manga, remaining with all the crews in the water until 3: 00 p.m.... which was the time limit for the final sleeves to begin. This meant that the results of the Previous Phase held on Saturday would become definitive.

At the edge of five o'clock in the afternoon Diana Sobral Cabanas as representative of the Coruñés Consistory, presided over the closing event in which also the Comodoro del Náutico Jorge Etchevarría, and Oscar Salgado by Abanca were present. The medals for Nautico de La Coruña (gold), Nautico de Vigo (silver) and Nautico de Puerto Sherry (bronze)... were left on the doors the girls of Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona de Africa Alonso, those of the Real Club Marítimo del Abra - Real Sporting Club de Getxo de Joana Abasola and those of the Real Club Nautico de Sanxenxo patronados by Alejandra Peleteiro.

The next event the Meeting Gadis Cidade da Coruña also immersed in the Rías Altas version of the Abanca Week, for the next weekend that honors in the memory to which he was great president of the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña, Aurelio Fernández Lage... in which about two hundred young promises of the Galician and Spanish candle will participate.

2023-11-18: Abanca Week: La Coruña, Vigo and Puerto Sherry will fight the medals of the Zendal

Sofia Toro in the foreground... the Olympic medalist fulfilled the forecast (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The Olympic gold medalist Sofia Toro met her favorite condition... by putting her race team, that of the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña, in the final phase of the Isabel Zendal Women's Sailing Regatta that opened the High Ries version of the Abanca Week 2023 in the waters of the herculine bay.

The coruñesa that leads a powerful crew, which includes excellent regatists such as Arancha Rivero, Marta Torres and Victoria Pintos... daughter of the world champion of cruises Jesus Pintos. Sofia Toro achieved a total of 4 points, product of two first partial and one second; in the three tests held.

The competition started at the edge of the one in the afternoon and closed four hours later, in which three full sleeves were covered... in which all the crews rotated double, in the different units used, all J80 monotypes with the setting and the candles radically equal. The wind in the Coruñese bay was loose (5 to 7 knots) of component between the south and the south-west.

After the herculins were the girls of the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo directed by a young Daniela Mariño, who has Rosalía Garcia, María Núñez, Ines Ameneiro and Paloma Martínez as crew. The ones in the olive club achieved partial of 2-1-1 with a total of five points.

More complex the decision of the third square... as they matched three clubs: the Nautico de Puerto Sherry del Puerto de Santa María, the Basque Real Club Marítimo del Abra-Real Sporting Club de Getxo and the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona... with a Nautico de Sanxenxo that was already without choice.

And at the end came the Gaditan girls, as they managed to be the best in the group on the last sleeve, undoing the untie in their favor. In this way they will be at the very end of Sunday next to the crews of Vigo and Baiona. The crews of the Mount Real Club de Yates de Baiona with Africa Alonso are left out by Galicia, and the crew of Carmen Dunia, Lorena Friera, Aden Cardana and Ruth Jimenez, as well as the crew of the Royal Nautical Club of Sanxenxo of Alejandra Peleteiro, are held as crew.

For Sunday from 11: 00 in the morning, the great final to elucidate the owners of the medals. At five in the afternoon the Clausura in the halls of the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña, which will have the presence of the municipal head of the tourist area among others, Diana Sobral Cabanas and Oscar Salgado in representation of Abanca.

2023-11-17: The women's race Isabel Zendal opens Abanca Week in La Coruña

The 8 teams of Galicia, Euskadi, Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Andalusia will face in groups of 4 (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The turn for the high-level women's sailing in the waters of the Coruñese ria, as from the hand of the Abanca Week begins the Regata Isabel Zendal Cidade da Coruña, with the organization of the Nautico that has achieved a genuine participation, throughout this weekend.

The clubs that will compete: the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona, and the Nautics of La Coruña, Sanxenxo and Vigo for Galicia. The Basque Country will be represented by the team of the Real Club Marítimo del Abra-Real Sporting Club de Getxo, by Andalusia the Nautico de Puerto Sherry gaditano, by baleales el Nàutic S'Arenal and by the canarian sailing the Real Club Nautico Arrecife de Lanzarote. A total of eight female teams, with a very high level.

The selected very strong Galician: the herculine Olympic gold medal Sofia Toro is the patron of the team of the Nautico de La Coruña... The Royal Mount of Baiona presents the world's bicampeona Africa Alonso to the commands, current champion of the Zendal... by the Nautico de Vigo is the very young Daniela Mariño his skipper was bronze in the Regata de la Mujer and Sanxenxo has as the leader of his crew to Alejandra Peleteiro, who has a very powerful palmaris among the Spanish and the most firm promises of the Spanish laseurs.

The maneuvers are fast and aggressive between the different teams, in the style match-race (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The competition in equal ships that will be faced in two groups of four... in the J80 of the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña, which will sail with the candles (major, foque and gennaker) that delivered the Coruñés Consistory to the Nautico when the Isabel Zendal was born in 2021, which are ceaselessly reserved to use in this unique and demanding competition in an exclusive way, in which the different sleeves have arbitration in the water in a direct way.

As the race opens, the traditional crew breefing will take place (with eight participants with five crew members per team). After the corresponding draw, they will be framed in two groups of four teams... from which the four final crews will come, which will be the first two of each group. Whatever started at 11 in the morning.

Already on Sunday with the same schedule will be measured in the final phase, the finalists and at the edge of the five o'clock in the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña, will take place the closing ceremony, with the award of which will be the third edition of the Regata Isabel Zendal that has come to stay, and that wants to become in the medium term not only a national reference... that is already... but an international cut-off event within the Abanca Week, in which is called the Rías Altas- Cidade da Coruña version.

Isabel Zendal was born in Ordes (La Coruña) on February 26, 1773, she was a Spanish nurse, rector of the Orphanate of Charity of La Coruña. He took part in the Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Francisco Javier Balmis Vaccine, taking care of the twenty-two children of the House of Expressions of La Coruña who traveled to America, aged between three and nine years, and of the twenty-six who went to the Philippines, during the ten years that the expedition to bring the smallpox vaccine to the Spanish overseas territories were vaccinated 250,000 young people... which in the end saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the New Continent and Philippines. She is considered by the World Health Organization as the first nurse in history on international mission.