Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp are the youngest crew to participate in Rio in 470 Male. Photo: Sailing Energy

They are the youngest crew of the Spanish Olympic Vela Team, still in junior category. They jumped to world fame after winning the Medal Race at the Santander World Cup, in which they finished seven, but they knew them to glory. From there they realized that Tokyo was far away and that Rio could be a reality.

His sports career has been successful. After leaving the Optimist class, Xammar began at the school of El Garraf and Herp of Palamós, they decided to join the first as a master and the second as a crew - especially for their physical characteristics - and there it was seen that they had wood as a team, starting to win the World and European, first in 420 and then in 470 Youth, in which they have been world champions up to two times.

From so different that they are, they are perfect, maybe there is the key to their success. They have all their sports lives ahead of them and they don't want to waste a second of their chance.

His coach is Jorge Martínez Doreste.

DNI
Name: Jordi
Last name: Xammar Hernández
Place of birth: Barcelona
Date of birth: 02 / 12 / 1993
Club: Club Nàutic El Garraf
Height: 1.76 m
Weight: 65 kg
Residence: Barcelona
Position on the boat: Pattern
Studies: Business Administration and Management
Olympic Games: First

DNI
Name: Joan
Last name: Herp Morell
Place of birth: Barcelona
Date of birth: 18 / 10 / 1993
Club: Real Club Nautico de Barcelona
Height: 1.86 m
Weight: 70 kg
Residence: Barcelona
Position on the boat: Tripulante
Studies: Industrial Engineering
Olympic Games: First

PALMERS
World
1 2013 (470 Junior) - Gold
1 2014 (470 Junior) - Gold
7 2014 (470)
4 2015 (470)
European
1 2014 (470 Junior) - Gold
Other
1 Sailing World Cup Quindao 2014

_

Spain has been classified for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in nine of the ten Olympic sailing classes, all but the Finn. The Laser Radial class has been the last to get the classification, which is not yet defined the regatists that will represent Spain and that will be decided during the Kieler Woche, race to be held from 22 to 26 June in Germany. A total of 270 regatists from 62 countries will participate, apart from Brazil as host nation, only France, Britain and the United States have classified all classes, ten. They follow you with nine Spain, Australia, Argentina, Canada and Italy.

The Spanish Olympic Vela Team, which runs Toni Ripoll, presents itself to the great Olympic event of Rio 2016 as the sport that has given Spain the most medals in all history, a total of 19 medals, 13 of them gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze, and 25 diplomas. The regatists and classes classified are RS: X Feminine, Marina Pémau; RS: X Male, Ivan Pastor; Laser Standard, Joaquin Blanco; 470 Female, Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López; 470 Male, Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp; 49er, Diego Botín and Iago López Marra; FX, Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos and Nacra 17, Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco.

2016 RIO VELA - GUIA OF THE MARINE SPECTOR DA GLORIA