Spain has shown its absolute dominance in the 49er Olympic sailing class, in the first World Championship of the Los Angeles 2028 cycle. The Olympic champions Diego Botín and Florian Trittel have hung the gold in the waters of Cagliari, south of Sardinia, on their return to the 49th 14 months after Paris 2024, while Paula Barceló and María Cantero have achieved the world scepter of 49er FX in their first competition together (Photo Sailing Energy)

Diego Botín (RCM Santander) and Florian Trittel (CN El Balís) arrived at the Medal Race with a sluggish mattress of points, but the new format of the finals forced them to win the final assault to climb up the top of the podium. The Medal Series began with the first race of the day, in which they competed the 20 best crews. This new pre- final is a non-disposable race, with direct judgment in the water, which defines the names of the four duplas that pass to the great final. Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Spain made progress to the end. The Dutch Bart Lambriex and Floris Van de Werken, who are tricampoons of the class world, have been second. The Danish team of the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion Jonas Warrer and his crew Mathias Lehm have completed the podium.

On their return to the Olympic Sail 14 months after the award of Olympic champions in Paris 2024, Diego Botín and Florian Trittel have starred in a spectacular World Cup. The Spaniards led the table at the start of the championship (which was last Tuesday); on the second and third day, they placed rooms, but on the fifth day they reheaded the classification and no longer left the position of honor in order to raise their first world title (Photo Sailing Energy).

Since they sailed together, Botín and Trittel had been able to make a medal in the three worlds in which they had competed: silver in 2022 in Canada, bronze in 2023 in the Netherlands, and bronze in Lanzarote in 2024. Now, in 2025, the cantabre and the Catalan achieve the longed for world gold, a title that had so far been resisted and which definitely engulfed in the 49er class. This new triumph is in addition to those achieved in a historic year 2024, in which they accumulated the gold medal at the JJ.OO. in Paris 2024, the victory in the SailGP circuit with the Spanish team and the World Sailing award to the World's Best Olympic Regatists. The other Spanish in liza, Conrad Konitzer (CN Arenal) and Anto Torrado (RCN Torrevieja) remained at the gates of the great final, classified in a more than meritorious fifth square.

Paula Barceló and María Cantero have crowned the world champions of 49er FX in Italian waters of Cagliari, south of Sardinia, in their premiere in competition. The shooting and the canary began training together in January, but they parked the competition for a while so that Barcelo could complete his medical studies. This world-wide event has been their first great competition together, and Barceló has also premiered in the role of patron. It is the first world crown for Cantero and the second for Barceló, after the one achieved in 2020 with Támara Echegoyen (Photo Sailing Energy)

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