Joan Herp and Jordi Xammar - left - in the second drawer of the podium. Photo: Marina García

The Catalan Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp have hung the silver medal in 470 Male at the Sailing World Cup Weymouth & Portland, which has ended today in English waters. The Catalan crew has been fourth in the Medal Race, but has been overtaken in general by the current world champions, the Croats Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic, although they have ended up tied to 32 points, but when the Croats win the Medal Race they take the gold.

Xammar and Herp depended on themselves and even though they were tied to points with the leaders until yesterday, the British Luke Patience and Chris Grube, who were their rival to beat, but it was difficult to control British and Croats. It was not an easy race and although they did not finally win, maintaining the second place and the silver has been a success for the Spanish crew, which is still of junior age.

Jordi Xammar explained that: "The strategy was simple: to make a good way out, to remount the first barlovento and there to do a study of the situation to see how we were placed with our rivals; and from then on to decide whether we had to attack, control, with respect to the English and Croats" and added "We are happy because it was an almost perfect championship; yesterday was certainly one of the best of our sports career. It's our second podium at the Sailing World Cup but the first with all the absolute, with all the top. Doing second is very positive."

They have also held a good championship the Galician Fernando Echávarri and the canaria Tara Pacheco. Winners at Hyères could not repeat triumph, they have finished rooms at Nacra 17, but the sensations have been very good, winning the Medal Race, and ending at three points of the podium. The victory has been for the British Ben Saxton / Nicola Grobes.

In 470, the Catalan Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López, in which they were octavas and closed their participation in the ninth place in the general. Local court with Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark.

And in 49er the cantabro-Galician crew of Diego Botín and Iago López Marra, who left without podium options, were octavos in the Medal and close their participation tenths. The victory of New Zealanders Logan Dunning Beck / Jack Simpson.

The rest of the Spaniards classified in Weymouth & Portland, but who no longer contested the Medal Race, have been: Támara Echegoyen / Berta Betanzos, 10th in FX; Martina Reino, 10th and Alicia Cebrián, 10th in Laser Radial and Martin Llena and Santiago Alegre, 10th in 49er.

The components of the Spanish Olympic Team that will participate in Rio will move in the next hours to Santander, where they will be officially presented next Tuesday at 13: 00 at the CEAR Prince Felipe.

Fourth day: Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp depend on themselves to win at Weymouth

Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp are tied to points with the first in 470 Male. Photo: Pedro Martínez

The Catalan crew formed by Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp will play tomorrow Sunday the victory in 470 Male of Weymouth & Portland's Sailing World Cup. Xammar and Herp are seconds tied with the leaders, the British Luke Patience and Chris Grube. They will also play the Medal Race Echávarri / Pacheco in Nacra 17, Cornudella / López in 470 Women and Botín / López Marra in 49er.

Xammar and Herp marked a perfect penultimate day with a first and two seconds that leaves them co- leaders at the end of the same 24-point tie with Patience and Grube. That allows them to rely on themselves to achieve victory. The third position in this class is occupied by the Croats Sime Fantela and Igor Mareic six points from the British and the Spanish.

In Nacra 17, the Galician Fernando Echávarri and the Canary Islands Tara Pacheco will leave at the Medal Race in seventh position, but with mathematical options to get to the silver medal. The current champions of the Sailing World Cup of Hyères today have held a 6-11 which places them at 13 points of the second and five of the third. The British Ben Saxton / Nicola Groves are leaders.

In 470 Feminino Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López with an 11-8-3 are octaves and although they are 13 points from the podium, and although they have it complicated, bronze is not impossible. The general heads the Swiss Linda Fahrni / Maja Siegenthaler.

In 49er Diego Botín and Iago López Marra after a great start of race, they failed to maintain the high level of the first days and arrived at the Medal Race in seventh position after performing a 10-14 and although they will be in the final they have been left out of the struggle for the medals. Martí Llena and Santiago Alegre have closed their participation in the tenth position. The British lead Dylan Fletcher-Scott / Alain Sign.

In FX the Galician Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos closed their participation with a 9-15-OCS (off-line), which has left them out of the Medal Race, in the tenth position. The British Charlotte Dobson / Sophie Ainsworth arrive at the final.

The Spanish ones of Laser Radial are also left without Medal Race. Martina Kingdom in the 14th position after a 14-9-10 and Alicia Cebrián in the 10th final after 26-BDF (off-line with black flag) -14, have closed their participation in Weymouth & Portland. The Dutch Marit Bouwmeester remains a leader.

The penultimate day, last for those not classified for the Medal Race, was very long, due to the very late start of the tests due to the complicated weather conditions, but finally in the middle of the afternoon they could start competing all classes.

Tomorrow Sunday is reserved for the Medal Race, finals in which the first ten of each class participate, in a single race that scores double and is not disposable.

Third day: The loose wind only allows a test to be held in Weymouht & Portland

Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López did a second on today's Weymouth day. Photo: Jesús Renedo

The third day of the Sailing World Cup Weymouth & Portland was marked by the loose wind that only allowed a test to be held in all classes, except for FX, which did not hold any. The rise and fall of wind intensity, from 7 to 3 knots, made the day very complicated.

Yet the Spanish crews managed to stay at the posts of Medal Race and the eight participants will fight this Saturday to qualify for the final race of Sunday.

Diego Botín and Iago López Marra lost their privileged position on the podium in 49er and have fallen from the second to the fifth square after doing a 17-4. Martí Llena and Santiago Alegre occupy the tenth position. The British Dylan Fetcher- Scott / Alain Sign are the first.

The best of the day were the Catalan Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López, who after a very strange second day, in the only test held today were marked a second that catapult to the sixth position in the general of 470 Feminine. British lideran Sophie Weguelin / Eilihd McIntyre. They are also sexted in General Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp, who in the only contested manga made a black flag off-line and lose ground on the podium led by the English Luke Patience / Chris Grube.

Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco in Nacra 17 made a ninth place that places them in sixth position only three points from the podium, thus their options remain intact for the last day. The Germans Paul Kohlhoff / Carolina Werner are the first.

Alicia Cebrián made a 20th place in the only held test and falls to the ninth position. Martina Reino marked an off-line with black flag and descends to the twenty-second position and has very far the posts of Medal Race. It's the first Dutch Marit Bouwmeester.

The FX class is the only one that remained uncompetitive, with which Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos will leave tomorrow in ninth position. The Swedish Lisa Ericson / Hanna Klinga are the first.

Second day: The song Diego Botín and the Galician Iago López Marra start strong in England

Botín and López Marra have started strong in Weymouth. Photo: Jesús Renedo

The song Diego Botín and the Galician Iago López Marra are second in 49er at the premiere of the Sailing World Cup Weymouth & Portland, which has finally been able to start today in British waters. After the suspension of most tests in all classes on the first day of the Sailing World Cup Weymouth & Portland, the second was able to recover the lost ground and the FX and Nacra classes 17 made four sleeves and three 470 Male and Female and Laser Radio.

Botín and López are still in their line of great results. They arrived in England after only two weeks ago in the Netherlands the Delta Lloyd Regatta. In the first four sleeves in Weymouth their posts have been 1-9-3-21, seconds in the general to a point of the leaders, the New Zealanders Logan Dunning Beck and one of the third, the British Dylan Fletcher-Scott / Alain Sign. In this same class the young Catalan crew of Martí Llena and Santiago Alegre, occupies the tenth position.

In Nacra 17 Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco have started in British waters at the doors of the podium. The Galician-Canary crew occupies the fourth position after a 15-8-1-4 and are just one point from the podium, which close the Germans Paul Kohlhoff / Carolina Werner. The Canadians Luke Ramsay / Nikola Girke are leading the table.

In Laser Radial Alicia Cebrián had a very good championship start, it is fifth in the general after performing two fifths, which placed it in podium positions, and a 25 that made it back several squares, still the Tineffeña is three points from the area of honor. While both Martina Kingdom occupies the tenth seventh post after performing 7-15-31. The Chinese Lijia Xu, leader.

In 470 Male the classification is very tight, Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp are octave, but have the podium posts at just four points. The Catalans made two six and a seventh place. The first are the French Sofian Bouet / Jeremie Mion, six points from the Spanish crew. Xammar and Herp became second in the general after the second of the three disputed tests.

In FX Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos they hold the ninth position after the first day of competition. They started the British race with a good fourth place, followed by a -9-12-10. The Galician-Cantabra crew is at Medal Race posts and with two days ahead, plus the final, to approach the head positions. He leads the Swedish crew of Lisa Ericson / Hanna Klinga.

In 470 Feminino Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López are ten seconds in the general, after a 12 in the first sleeve, a good fifth in the second, but an off-line in the third that temporarily leaves them out of the Medal posts. The Swiss Linda Fahrni / Maja Siegenthaler lead the general with a triple tie to points with the British Hannah Mills / Saskia Clark and Sophie Weguelin / Eilidh McIntyre.

The wind has blown between 7 and 11 knots of intensity. By tomorrow it is expected to continue to recover evidence in order to meet the set schedule.

First day: The wind does not make an act of presence at the premiere of the Weymouth & Portland

The Galician Iago López Marra awaits the arrival of the wind by bicycle. Photo: Pedro Martínez / Sailing Energy

The lack of wind has prevented the normal start of the Weymouth & Portland Sailing World Cup. Only one manga was able to fight the class RS: X Male in which there is no Spanish participant. Tomorrow, if weather conditions allow, the tests will be tried in the rest of the classes.

The 49er and FX classes in which Diego Botín and Iago López and Martí Llena and Santiago Alegre and Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos participated were about to start a manga, but finally the Regatas Committee, taking into account the weather conditions, decided to suspend the start of the tests.

In principle, two daily tests were planned in the Laser Radial classes and 470 and three in Nacra, FX and 49er, which will try to recover some of the tests that could not be held today.

The Olympic waters of London 2012 last test for those of Rio 2016

Echavarri and Pacheco arrive at Weymouth after winning at Hyères in Nacra 17. Photo: Pedro Martínez

The Olympic waters in London 2012, from Weymouth & Portland, will live from tomorrow the last great race before the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Weymouth & Portland Sailing World Cup. A total of eight Spanish crews will take part in the British race included within the World Cup circuit.

It will be a great test for the Olympic event, in which the crews will last measure each other in a first-level race in terms of competition and competitiveness.

In Nacra 17, the Galician Fernando Echávarri and the Canaria Tara Pacheco arrived in Weymouth after winning the last race of the World Cup, the Hyères Coming World Cup just a month ago. Echávarri and Pacheco do so with confidence and in ascending trajectory.

In FX, the European champions and bronze, the Galician Támara Echegoyen and the Cantabra Berta Betanzos, return to the competition after a period of rest that has served to recover from some injuries that were dragging from the Trophy Princess Sofia Iberostar and the European of Barcelona. During this time they have continued their development, in order to reach the best conditions in Rio.

In 49er the champions of Europe, the cantabre Diego Botín and the Galician Iago López Marra, arrive in England with the tranquility of having Olympic classification in the pocket, achieved in late May in Medemblik, after winning the Dutch Eurosaf race. Botín and López Marra will not be alone, as there will also be the young Catalan crew of Martí Llena and Santiago Alegre.

In 470, the two Catalan crews that will be in Rio, in Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp men and in Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López women, after a few weeks of training in Rio waters, have returned to Europe to participate in Weymouth, just before they return to sail again in Caribbean waters.

The two Canarian regatists of Laser Radial, the Tinerfeña Alicia Cebrián and the great Canaria Martina Reino, the latter also participated in the Delta Lloyd of Medemblik entering the Medal Race.

The Weymouth Sailing World Cup will start this Wednesday until Saturday, to spend Sunday to play the top ten of each class the Medal Race. For the Laser Radial and 470 classes, a maximum of eight tests - two per day - and twelve Nacra 17, FX and 49er - three per day will be held.

Text: Jaume Soler
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