Abanca Week: Okofen, Marías and Alboroto podium of the Iberian of J80

Abanca Week: Okofen, Marías and Alboroto podium of the Iberian of J80

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One of the exits with Channas to the background and Okofen to head (Photo Moebius)

Okofen del Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona, with a crew led by Javier de la Gandara, who completed Diego Fernández, Jaime Gandara and Iago Carrera; it was imposed in the Iberian J80 Championship that as a previous to the Abanca Week, which organized the Bouzas Maritime Liceo with the support of the Club Marítimo de Vigo, as well as the Secretariat for O Sport of the Xunta de Galicia, the Royal Galician Federation of Vela, the Portuguese Federation, the Royal Spanish Federation and the Associations of the Class J80 of Portugal and Spain.

The vicedecano of the nautical of Galicia, the Maritime Liceo of Bouzas, is one of the organizational pillars of the Abanca Week, which this year will gather over three months of competition, about three thousand athletes of sailing, pyragüism, rowing, nautical skiing, wakeboard and wakesurf; with events that are held in the rios of Vigo, Pontevedra-Marin and A Coruña... as well as in the inland slopes of the river Miño at its passage through Tui- Valdo, in the province of Minenho and in the province of San Luis.

On Sunday day the winds of 7 to 10 knots of the west-west made it possible to celebrate three other sleeves, so the program was completed perfectly (Photo Moebius)

If on Saturday three sleeves were completed, in which they were imposed; Marías, Waikiki and Okofen... on Sunday the same happened with the first places for the J80 of the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña with Guillermo Blanco to the cane, the 3D Atlantic Printing and the two remaining for a Javier Gandara that reached three partial victories. The wind conditions, that's right with roles and not a few... and between 7 and 10 knots from the northwest. To emphasize that the end that the champion of Spain Alboroto, with Juan Carlos Ameneiro and Javier Aguado at the front managed to get into the podium after partial logar on Sunday of 4 ° -5 ° -2. In short, this Iberian Championship, with a real lugo finish with a triplet of the highest level, with two Spanish ships in gold and bronze (Okofen and Alboroto) and a well-deserved silver for Portugal, with the Marias.

One from the southern Galician, the Maija, and one from the northern Bazán Group in the middle of the stern in the Viguese Ria (Photo Moebius)

Iberian J80- Abanca Week Championship
Final ranking (top eight)

1º Okofen (Javier Gandara, Diego Fernández, Jaime Gandara, Iago Carrera) 8 points,
2nd Marías (Manuel Cunha, Alejandra Celada, Vasco Tinoco, JM Cunham José Pereira) 12,
3rd Alboroto (JC Ameneiro, Javier Aguado, Javier Lago, Amador Riveiro) 22,
4th Waikiki (Andrés Gómez, Víctor Gómez, Santiago Gómez, Alberto Gonzalez) 25,
5th Gaifar (Yago Osuna, Pablo Osuna, Pablo Osuna Jr, Pedro Salgado) 25,
6th I3D Atlantic (Guillermo Blanco, Elena Polaina, Luis Porcel, Luis Saenz) 29,
7th Namaste (Luis Mira, Javier Miguez, Alba Rego, Hilda Martín, María Grobas) 32,
8th Cactus Digital-Petrilla (Jaime Barreiro, Victor Ayan, Javier Porto, Jimmy Liebstreich) 35