The assistance of about 50 Snipistasdel Real Club Astur de Regatas, Real Club Marítimo de Santander, Real Club Náutico de Madrid, Real Club Náutico de Motril, or the hosts of the Real Club Marítimo del Abra - Real Sporting Club, including Tomás Trueba and Gabriel Oraá and Nicolás Viar and Silvia Marcé, will take part in the end of October at the World Cup of Argentina (Photo José Capedillo)

The last day of August and the first of September, with its fourth edition, returns the Trophy Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende in the Snipe class, in which more than 25 snipes from various points of the country take part... that will sail in two exciting days. The race is included in the National Circuit of Snipe, which dates back to 1931 and is organized by the Real Club Marítimo del Abra-Real Sporting Club, with the collaboration of the City Council of Getxo, the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, the Vasca and Vizcana de Vela Federations and the Spanish Association of the International Snipe class.

Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende was president of the Real Sporting Club and the Real Federación Española de Vela. He was born on 8 December 1918 and died in 1984. Regist, sports director and naval engineer, this athlete at the Club de Las Arenas won Spanish championships in different sailing classes over three decades and participated in the Olympic Games in London in 1948 (19th in Firefly), in Rome 1960 (11th in the Flying Dutchman class) and in Mexico 1968 (18th in the Star class). His greatest success was the so-called Snipe World Championship he won in Cascais (Portugal) in 1957 with Gabriel Laiseca, the first Spanish to do so. He also played in the Spanish Championship of this class Snipe in Vigo (1942) with his brother José María as a patron, in addition to 1956 and 1957. In the Star class he was Spanish champion in 1943, 1945, 1947, 1966, 1967 and 1968.