Family photo of the Iberian Championship in Baiona. Photo: Rosana Calvo

On board the Samba Pati and with hardly any improvement results, the cartagJanuary Antonio Maestre was made this afternoon in Baiona with the victory of the Iberian Class 2.4mR Championship, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates by delegation of the Royal Spanish Vela Federation.

The Paralympic athlete of the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena arrived in Galicia willing to improve the bronze he achieved in the national of the class last March, and did so with power. He signed four first posts and one second in the total of six trials held throughout the weekend in the Adapted Vela Vitaldent Regata, included in the IV Iberdrola Circus of Paralympic Vela.

It was, he says, "a very technical competition, with a field of races somewhat complicated by the currents, which must be very well understood to achieve good results." But despite these currents, and despite breaking the pinzote of the botavara, Master finally achieved the victory of the competition in a club where, he claims, it feels at home. "Coming to Baiona is always a pleasure, for how beautiful this is and for how well they treat us on Mount Real. When they ask the regatists where we want to go sailing, Baiona is a place that always comes out, because it is a place where we feel very comfortable."

Three points away from the victory was the Andalusian regatist and coach Nacho Zalvide, the Real Club Marítimo and Tennis de Punta Umbria. The one from Huelva reached the final day as a provisional leader after the first tests, but he could not follow the pace of Master and ended up falling from the top of the podium to the second drawer.

The gold was therefore left for Murcia, the silver for Andalusia, and the bronze remained Galicia, from the hand of the regatist of the Club de Vela Escota de Vigo, Fran Piñeiro. The Galician made it clear on Saturday, with a fourth place, that he wanted a podium place of the competition, and this Sunday he finally got it.

On the ground, Piñeiro was very satisfied with the results and, above all, with the evolution he is achieving in the season. He himself recognizes that he started something loose, but that he is gradually taking rhythm. He also says that this is influenced by the fact that, from a time to this part, he enjoys much more sailing because, he says, once he has made classification for the Rio Olympics, there is again a great atmosphere among the regatists.

The Iberian Championship of Class 2.4mR - Adapted Vela Vitaldent Regata, included in the IV Iberdrola Circuit of Paralympic Sailing, ended with the award of prizes to the winners, in which the mayor and the city council of accessibility of Baiona, Ángel Rodal and Policarpo Vilar participated; the delegate of Iberdrola in Galicia, Francisco Silva; the head of marine and fishing of Repsol, Inés González Megido; and the president and vice president of the Monte Real Club of Yates, José Luis Álvarez and Alejandro Retolaza.

The next competition of Mount Real Club de Yates is one of the great citations of the nautical panorama this year, the Baiona Angra Atlantic Race, an ocean race that will start next Sunday, July 3 of the Galician marinera villa on the way to Angra do Heroismo, in the lush archipelago of Azores.

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Baiona will be setting again a year more than one of the most important adapted sailing dates - Photo © Rosana Calvo

The Mount Real Club de Yates, with the sponsorship of Vitaldent, organizes the Iberian Championship of the class 2.4mR, the most important adapted sailing competition in Spain, included in the IV Iberdrola circuit of Paralympic Sailing. It is the fourth consecutive year that the Baionese club deals with one of the key citations of the velistic landscape, which is attended by numerous regatists from different points in Spain and Portugal.

In this new edition of the championship, the marina villa of Baiona will be the stage of three days of testing, a first training, on Friday day 24, and two more of competition during the weekend. Some 15 boats will go out into the water, fighting for victory on several barlovento sotavento tours marked with buoys inside the bay.

A maximum of six tests will be held to which the race committee will be able to leave on both Saturday and Sunday at 12 noon. Weather forecasts announce sun and good wind, conditions that will allow both participants and the public to enjoy the competition.

This Adjusted Vela Vitaldent Regatta, in which the class champion 2.4mR will be decided, is also the second stage of the IV Iberdrola Vela Paralympic Circuit, which began last April in Murcia, and will continue in July and October in Bizkaia and Malaga.

The circuit reaches Baiona with Rafa Andarias at the head. The athlete of the Nautical Club of Jávea was able to stand at the top of the provisional podium after the first trials held last April in Murcia, and will try not to put down steps in the races this weekend. He will recite Andarias in a water that last year, despite being somewhat complicated to navigate, gave him many satisfaction and his fifth national class champion title 2.4mR.

Along with Andarias will also be this weekend in Baiona, among others, the onubense regatist Arturo Montes, of the Club Marítimo de Punta Umbria, which will represent Spain at the Paralympic Games of Rio 2016, and that goes second in the general classification of the Iberdrola circuit. Another of the main names of the circuit is Borja Melgarejo, from the Club de Mar Puerto Sherry, who last year had the desire to take the victory of the national championship in Baiona, having to settle for the silver of the competition.

Sailing at home and representing Galicia in this Iberian Championship of Class 2.4mR will be Fran Piñeiro and José Manuel Otero, from the Club Deportivo Vela Escota de Vigo; and from the neighbouring country will arrive the Portuguese Manuel Soares and Fernándo Pintos, of the Sport Club do Porto, who also participated in the Spanish Championship of the class held last March in Valencia.

The competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates with the sponsorship of Vitaldent and the collaboration of the Galician Federation of Vela and the Portuguese Federation of Vela will end on Sunday 26 at 5: 00 in the afternoon with the award of the winners, a delivery that will be made at the facilities of the Baionese club.