This weekend of August 30 and August 31 is celebrated with 20 snipes (Photo José Capello)

The tests of the calendar of the Royal Maritime Club of the Abra-Real Sporting Club return in this final section of the summer with a relevant quote since it was born in 2021. In the last two days of August, with its fifth edition, the Trophy Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende returns in the Snipe class. The first departure on Saturday will be at 13: 00, while on Sunday the tests will start from 12: 00. There are six scheduled routes, of which two must be completed for the validity of the race.

In 1957, Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende and Gabriel Laiseca, two regatists of the Vizcadno Club, were awarded with the Guadalimar the World Championship of this kind in the Portuguese town of Cascais. In his honor, the Vizcaino Club reorganizes this weekend which will be the fifth edition of the Trophy that bears its name... in line of output 20 snipes, including the best of the Cantabric. It will be the first time that he who was his great partner; Gabriel Laiseca, is not present since creation, for he has recently left us.

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.