Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos show their happiness in Rio waters. Photo: Sailing Energy

Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos are where they wanted, first of the Olympic Games in the FX class and fighting next Thursday to be the new Olympic champions. The first four classified are tied to Spain, Brazil and Denmark and one point behind New Zealand. The four are self-dependent, and a spectacular Medal Race is expected. Leaders arrived on the last day and have ended up leading the previous phase, which has determined the ten crews will be on the 18th Medal Race, although the three podium posts will be played only four, the fifth, the British crew of Sara Steyaert and Aude Compan no longer have mathematical options to get metal. At the end of the three-fold tie between Echegoyen / Betanzos, the Brazilian Martine Grale / Kahena Kunze and the Danish Jena Hanse / Katka Steen Salskov-Iversen. One point behind them the New Zealand Alex Maloney / Molly Meech. On this last day Echegoyen and Betanzos came to know that it was very important not to fail, they began and ended with two first posts and a 5 and a 10. His rivals did not make it easy for him, as they were all able to follow the Spanish's wake, thus presenting an exciting Medal Race where only three of the four will have the medal prize.

In 49er Diego Botín and Iago López Marra also played the being or not to be a last card. For much of the last day they were out of the posts of Medal Race, in the end they entered novies and can fight mathematically until fifth place. After a penultimate day to forget, in the last one they made a 12-2-13 that allowed them to climb to the ninth position and see things differently. They have entered for a point to fight the Medal Race, enough to be able to fight Thursday for an Olympic Diploma. New Zealanders Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are already the Olympic champions, they have won the gold before fighting not only the Medal, but even the tenth manga. That is to say, only silver and bronze are at stake.

In 470 Male Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp has finished in the tenth place first at only three points of the tenth. They have stayed at the gates of the Medal after a 16-12-9. They tried it all the way with a big last sleeve, but it wasn't enough. They are leaders and the great favorites to the final triumph, the Croats Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic.

In 470 Feminino Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López performed a 19-11-10 on this last day, staying five points from the Medal Race. Cornudella and López also fought him and although they had him close, they failed to enter the final. The British Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark are already mathematically Olympic champions, as they draw 20 points to the second, the New Zealand Jo Aleh / Polly Powrie. On Wednesday the 470 Medal Race will be held, without Spanish participation, and will be a rest day for the FX and 49er.

Támara Echegoyen
"We've been sailing for almost a week to end up playing everything in a race. The one who won the Medal will have really worked it for him... we'll go out as usual, win the Medal. Besides, I think we can."

Berta Betanzos
"We've given it all in the water, we've done what we can and now we'll fight it at the Medal."

Diego Botín
"The championship has not gone as we would have liked, but in the end we have made it to the Medal and we will fight to stay as best we can."

Jordi Xammar
"The only thing I can say right now is that we have given 100% in each race, but luck has not been on our side... now, get them ready because we will go for all of Tokyo."

FX
1 Támara Echegoyen / Berta Betanzos (ESP), 46 p
2 Martine Grael / Kahena Kunze (BRA), 46 p
3 Jena Hansen / Katja Steen Salskov- Iversen (DEN), 46 p

49er
1 Peter Burling / Blair Tuke (NZL), 33 p
2 Erik Heil / Thomas Ploessel (GER), 67 p
3 Nathan Outteridge / Iain Jensen (AUS), 70 p

470 M
1 Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic (CRO), 27 p
2 Panagiotis Mantis / Pavlos Kagialis (GRE), 38 p
3 Mathew Belcher / Will Ryan (AUS), 40 p

470 F
1 Hannah Mills / Saskia Clark (GBR), 28 p
2 Jo Aleh / Polly Powrie (NZL), 48 p
3 Tina Mrak / Veronika Macarol (SLO), 50 p

Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos are leaders in Rio 2016 (16 / 08 / 2016)

Tamara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos are first to three sleeves of the Medal Race. Photo: Sailing Energy / World Sailing

Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos have placed leaders in FX at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio 2016 on a memorable day that has allowed them to climb from the fourth to the first place in the absence of three sleeves and the Medal Race (3 + 1). Botín and López Marra went down to 12 in 49er and the 470 had no conditions to sail. Echegoyen and Betanzos have become the clearest medal option of the Spanish team. If they were before today's day, they have been confirmed after adding a quarter and two first posts that catapult them to the head and with a four-point advantage over the New Zealand Alex Maloney and Molly Meech, who are second and five over the Brazilian Marine Grael and Kahena Kunze. The wind accompanied by blowing between 10 and 12 knots of intensity in the Niteroi race field. In the first test of the day they were between the fourth and third place throughout the manga fighting with the French, British and Brazilian crews. In the end Echegoyen and Betanzos were fourth, preparing for what would come next. In the next two in which they were leaders from beginning to end, without giving more choice to Swedish and Brazilian who would have to settle to see how the Spanish crew was raiding. In the absence of three sleeves, tomorrow, and the Medal Race, Thursday. Echegoyen and Betanzos draw nine points to the classified quarters, the Danish Hansen / Salskov-Iversen.

Less fortune had Diego Botín and Iago López Marra in 49er. The Cantabrian-Galician couple who left in seventh position fell until the tenth after performing a 14-15-18, places far away from those they had done so far. Botín and López Marra will play it all tomorrow in the last three sleeves, in which they will decide who are the ten ships that will fight the Medal Race. Botín and López Marra are only one point from the tenth, the Brazilian ship of Maco Grael and Gabriel Borges.

The 470 class, in both its male and female category, was today to dispute its last day before the Medal Race, but the low intensity and instability of the wind in the field of Escola Naval, made it possible to finally fight no sleeve. This way tomorrow the two Spanish crews in liza will play whether or not they are on Wednesday's Medal Race. In 470 Male Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp leave in the tenth place two points from the tenth, the British Luke Patience and Chris Grube. With three sleeves ahead of them, they have in their hand the power to move to the final. In 470 women Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López also maintain their options although they are further away from the tenth place. The Catalan are ten points from the 10th, the Chilean Nadja Horwitz / Sofia Middleton.

Támara Echegoyen
"We haven't won anything yet. It is true that we come for a medal, but there is still a long way to go: Three sleeves and the Medal Race." "We're holding the pressure very well. We're there, and we don't have to go down. We're good, but we have to go on like this to the end."

Berta Betanzos
"We have to go step by step, race to race and get it all right. We haven't won anything yet."

Diego Botín
"It's been a very hard day for us. Now we have to recover to make things better for us tomorrow."

Jordi Xammar
"We have not been able to sail for a short wind, and when we went back to the ground, we have a bandage of over 40 knots... tomorrow we have to give it all to get into Medal Race."

FX
1 Támara Echegoyen / Berta Betanzos (ESP), 30 p
2 Alex Maloney / Molly Meech (NZL), 34 p
3 Martine Grael / Kahena Kunze (BRA), 35 p

49er
1 Peter Burling / Blair Tuke (NZL), 21 p
2 Erik Heil / Thomas Ploessel (GER), 39 p
3 Nathan Outteridge / Iain Jensen (AUS), 54 p
12 Diego Botín / Iago López Marra (ESP), 83 p

470 M
1 Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic (CRO), 14 p
2 Mathew Belcher / Will Ryan (AUS), 25 p
3 Panagiotis Mantis / Pavlos Kagialis (GRE), 32 p
12 Jordi Xammar / Joan Herp (ESP), 60 p

470 F
1 Hannah Mills / Saskia Clark (GBR), 20 p
2 Annie Haeger / Briana Provancha (USA), 24 p
3 Lara Vadlau / Jolanta Orar (AUT), 32 p
13 Bàrbara Cornudella / Sara López (ESP), 62 p

Marina Paliau cannot revalidate medal in Rio (08 / 14 / 2016)

The 2012 Olympic champion in London Marina Paliau has not been able to revalidate the title or end up on the RS: X Women's podium. In the end the Rio Olympic Games are finished in fifth position. It has probably been one of the hardest days for the sevillana as it reached the Medal Race in an ascending way and during it even came to touch the metals with its hands. Paliau was one of the great hopes of Spanish sailing at these Rio Olympic Games. And when he began to find himself more comfortable, there came a mutual protest with the Israeli Maayan Davidovich on the penultimate day, which ended in disqualification for her and to close the circle, an absurd protest from the Mediation Committee the night before the Medal Race that ended in nothing, but which has certainly affected the performance of the regatist.

Before the RS Medal: X Feminine was disputed the male, in which Ivan Pastor fought to death to win the missing Olympic diploma after four participations. Pastor was second in the Medal after leading her but it was not enough and has finished fourth the Rio Games. The Alicantino knew how complicated his goal was, but finished ninth, the same as at the Beijing Olympic Games. The gold and silver, which were decided in advance, were for the Dutch Dorian Van Rijsselberghe and the British Nick Dempsey respectively. The remaining square was the bronze that was awarded to him by the French Pierre Le Coq.

In Nacra 17 Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco were played the last letter to enter the Medal Race. In the last day they made a 4-10-6, but had the most cruel end, they ended up in the tenth first position tied to points with the tenths of the Brazilians Samuel Albercht / Isabel Swan, who had up to a first partial. In this class the Argentine crew of Santiago Lange / Cecilia Carranza comes to the Medal Race.

In 470 Male Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp continue to flirt to enter the Medal Race. They're ten first in the absence of a day and three sleeves. The Catalans today marked a 22 and a 7, which shows that they are still very irregular. They are two points away from the Medal posts, making it feasible to see them in it. The Croats Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic are untreatable.

In 470 Feminino Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López have complicated their participation after performing an 11 and a 12. It's ten seconds to ten points of the tenth. With three tests ahead of you, everything is still possible, but it won't be easy. The British Hannah Mills / Sarkia Clark continue to command in general. The 49th and FX have had a rest day today. Tomorrow, the Laser Standard and Laser Radial Medal will be held without Spanish participation.

Marina Paliau has not been able to override the Olympic medal. Photo: Sailing Energy / World Sailing

Marina Paliau
"I was hoping I could take a medal, I had it around, but in the end it couldn't be...""I'm sad I didn't get a medal but at the same time happy to close a cycle that has had a complicated ending...""Follow for Tokyo? Why not. As I did after London, now I want to take a quiet year, to come back with more strength."

Ivan Pastor
"I knew the Diploma was very complicated. All I wanted was to make a great Medal and end up with a good mouth taste of these Olympic Games."

RS: X F
1 Charline Picon (FRA), 64 p
2 Peina Chen (CHN), 66 p
3 Stefaniya Elfutin (RUS), 69 p
5 Marina Paliau (ESP), 71 p

RS: X M
1 Dorian van Rijsselberghe (NED), 25 p
2 Nick Dempsey (GBR), 52 p
3 Pierre Le Coq (FRA); 86 p
9 Ivan Pastor (ESP), 127 p

Born 17
1 Santiago Lange / Cecilia Carranza (ARG), 65 p
2 Vittorio Bissaro / Silvia Sicouri (ITA), 70 p
3 Thomas Zajac / Tanja Frank (AUT), 72 p
11 Fernando Echávarri / Tara Pacheco (ESP), 101 p

470 M
1 Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic (CRO), 14 p
2 Mathew Blecher / Will Ryan (AUS), 25 p
3 Panagiotis Mantis / Pavlos Kagialis (GRE), 32 p
11 Jordi Xammar / Joan Herp (ESP), 60 p

470 F
1Hannah Mills / Saskia Clark (GBR), 20 p
2 Annie Haeger / Briana Provancha (USA), 24 p
3 Tina Mrak / Veronika Macarol (SLO), 33 p

The Organization recognizes its error in the protest to Marina Paliau (14 / 08 / 2016)

Paliau will fight at the Medal Race for the first medal for Spain of Vela in Rio 2016

Last hour

The Spanish regatist Marina Paliau has not been punished after yesterday afternoon the Committee for the Measurement of the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 presented a protest against the Andalusian regatist. This morning there was a hearing in which the Jury International heard both sides, and determined that the material of the Spanish regatist was on the site and at the appropriate time. Paliau will participate today in the Medal Race in which he takes part in the sixth position in the RS class: Women at six points of gold, thus keeping his options to medal.

Echegoyen and Betanzos get fourth in FX and Paliau seeks the medal in RS: X

Full day at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where two Spanish crews, those of Támara Echegoyen / Berta Betanzos (FX) and Diego Botín / Iago López Marra (49er), are fighting for the front positions: fourth and seventh respectively. Fernando Echávarri / Tara Pacheco (Nacra 17) seek to be in Medal Race, in the absence of three sleeves. Alicia Cebrián (Laser Radial) and Joaquín Blanco (Laser Standard) have fired from the competition and this Sunday Marina Paliau and Ivan Pastor (RS: X Feminino and Male) will fight for the medals and the Olympic diploma, at the Medal Race which will start at 13: 00 and at 14: 00.

The FX and 49er classes reached the equator of the competition with six of the twelve trials held in these classes. During today's day both have been at some point in podium positions. At the end of the day Echegoyen and Betanzos are fourth in the General of FX, after having performed a 3-1-11-5 that place them very well five points from the square and the bronze that now present Martina Grael / Kahena Kunze and Alex Malone / Molly Meech, second and third of the general that lead the Danes Jena Hansen / Katja Steen Salskov- Iversen.

Joaquín Blanco has had no luck in his Olympic debut at Laser Standard. Photo: Sailing Energy

In 49er Diego Botín and Liago López Marra are septic in general after having had an irregular but productive day, with a 3-13-7-10 that place them only four points from the podium that close the Olympic champions Jonas Warrer / Christian Peter Lubeck. New Zealanders Peter Burling / Blair Tuke are first indisputable. He has also had a good day Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco in Nacra 17, and in three sleeves in which they have made 11-5-3, they have come to the first ten and tomorrow they will fight to be at the Medal Race on Tuesday. They are ten seconds to just four points from the tenth, the Danish Allan Norregaard / Annette Viborg. The first are the Australians Jason Waterhouse / Lisa Darmanin.

The Laser class has now completed its qualifying phase for the Medal Race and the two Spanish crews have been left out of the final, reserved for the first ten classified crews. On Radio the Dutch Marit Bouwmeester, leader, has secured the bronze medal. Alicia Cebrián has closed her participation in the tenth position. In Standard Joaquín Blanco, it has ended in the thirty-sixth, in the largest class in which the first two, the Croatian Stipanovic and the Australian Tom Burton, have secured the medal, now only remains to know the color of them.

Támara Echegoyen
"Today we have taken another step, but there is still a lot of competition ahead. Serenity and constancy are going to be the keys to success. If we're regular, I'm sure we'll give good news."

Berta Betanzos
"We are convinced that Marina Paliau will get another Olympic medal. He is a person who grows up in the face of adversities and who fully trusts himself."

Alicia Cebrián
"I may not have been more regular, but I'm keeping a lot of positive things from these Olympic Games."

Iago López Marra
"There is a lot of championship left ahead, we are calm and the important thing is to go step by step."

FX
1 Jena Hansen / Katja S. Salskov-Iversen (DEN), 12 p
2 Martine Grael / Kahena Kunze (BRA), 19 p
3 Alex Malone / Molly Meech (NZL), 19 p
4 Támara Echegoyen / Berta Betanzos (ESP), 24 p

49er
1 Peter Burling / Blair Tuke (NZL), 15 p
2 Erik Heil / Thomas Ploessel (GER), 18 p
3 Jonas Warrer / Christian Peter Lubeck (DEN), 33 p
7 Diego Botín / Iago López Marra (ESP), 38 p

Born 17
1 Jason Waterhouse / Lisa Darmanin (AUS), 46 p
2 Santiago Lange / Cecilia Carranza (ARG), 49 p
3 Ben Saxton / Nicola Groves (GBR), 49 p
13 Fernando Echávarri / Tara Pacheco (ESP), 81 p

Radial laser
1 Marit Bouwmeester (NED), 47 p
2 Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN), 55 p
3 Annalise Murphy (IRL), 57 p
17 Alicia Cebrián (ESP), 130 p

Laser Standard
1 Tucci Stipanovic (CRO), 57 p
2 Tom Burton (AUS), 67 p
3 Sam Meech (NZL), 77 p
36 Joaquín Blanco (ESP), 286 p

Marina Paliau suffers a disqualification and goes from third to sixth (12 / 08 / 2016)

Last Hour: Marina Paliau has suffered a disqualification due to an incident with the Israeli Maayan Davidovich, in the last buoy of the tenth RS: X female race. Paliau and Davidovich protested each other by being penalized the Sevillian race, which passes from the third to the sixth position of the general. Paliau will face next Sunday the Medal Race six points from the first two classified, the Italian Flavia Tartaglini and the Russian Stefania Elfutina that are tied to 55 points. The Chinese Peina Chen, the French Charline Picon and Davidovich are also ahead of him. Because of the little difference in points among the first six classified, Páliau continues to maintain its options to revalidate the gold obtained four years ago at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

CLASSIFICATION
RS: X F
1 Flavia Tartaglini (ITA), 55 p
2 Stefania Elfutin (RUS), 55 p
3 Peina Chen (CHN), 60 p
4 Charline Picon (FRA), 60 p
5 Maayan Davidovich (ISR), 60 p
6 Marina Paliau (ESP), 61 p
7 Lilian de Geus (NED), 68 p
8 Bryony Shaw (GBR), 71 p
9 Patricia Freitas (BRA), 72 p
10 Tuuli Petaja-Siren (FIN), 79 p

Marina Paliau arrives third to the Medal Race with options to revalidate the gold (12 / 08 / 2016)

Marina Paliau fighting with the Japanese Mugumi Iseda on a way out. Photo: Sailing Energy

Marina Paliau has been placed in the podium area, third, after the regular phase and in which the first ten classified in RS: X Feminino will play next Sunday the Medal Race. There are up to seven regatists with podium options, including the Andalusian one, which is three points from the gold, since it now occupies the Russian Stefaniya Pitufina and two from the silver held by the Italian Flavia Tartaglini. In RS: X Male Ivan Pastor after a sensational day, has gone from 16 to 10 and will be in Medal with options to the seventh square.

It was the day of the FX and 49er class debut in which Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos are octavas and Diego Botín and Iago López Marra novios, respectively. The fifth day of the Rio Olympic Games has been very long, the wind is slow to enter, but when it did all the classes began to dispute their tests. It has been a very intense day in which all the classes but Finn and Nacra 17, who today had a day of rest, have sailed.

Marina Paliau reached the last day, prior to the Medal Race, in a fourth position and confirmed his streak after this day he made a 6-9-3 that confirmed him in the third position and with real options to revalidate next Sunday the title of Olympic champion in class RS: X. But the medals are going to be very expensive in this class, since from the leader, the Russian Elfutina, to the seventh, the Dutch De Geus, there are only 13 points and in the Medal Race are distributed 20, so the fight will be very closed and no one can mark anyone. Paliau is three points from the leader to two of the second, the Italian Tartaglini and to two from the fourth to the sixth - Chen, Picon and Davidovich-. It will certainly be a Medal Race of infant-.

Ivan Pastor was another of the day's highlights when he was ranked by the Medal Race in tenth position. The Alicantino, who left the tenth place, went out and made a 9-2-3, qualifying for the great final and opting for the Olympic Diploma - which they receive from the fourth to the eighth. Pastor has at 17 points the Brazilian Santos, seventh and six of the Italian Comboni, octave. In this class the Dutch Van Rijsselberghe already has gold and the British Nick Dempsey, the silver.

This Friday was the day of the FX and 49er classes with Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos and Diego Botín and Iago López Marra respectively. In FX Echegoyen and Betanzos they premiered with a fourth in the first trial and a tenth in the second, which place them in the eighth place in the general, which lead Canadians Erin Rahuse and Dannie Boyd. In 49er Botín and López Marra debuted in some JJ.OO. and have done so with note, since they occupy the ninth position after performing a 16-5. The intrepable Burling / Tuke are first.

In the Laser class, in Radio Alicia Cebrián, he continues to fight to be on Monday's Medal Race in the absence of two sleeves. The tinerfeña occupies position 17 in the general after making one of lime and one of sand, a 28-4. The Danish Anne- Marie Rindom is the first. In Standard Joaquín Blanco, he was unable to remount positions and after a 26 and a DNF, he is held at the 36 of the general head of the Croatian Tucci Stipanovic.

In 470 they were able to play only one manga, in which in the male category Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp have returned to the positions of Medal Race, they are tenth in the general after performing a ninth in the manga. The Croats Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic head the table. In the female category Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López have lost two positions and are ten thirds after a third partial. This class is dominated by British Hannah Mill and Saskia Clark.

CLASSIFICATIONS

RS: X F
1 Stefaniya Elfutin (RUS), 55 p
2 Flavia Tartaglini (ITA), 56 p
3 Marina Paliau (ESP), 58 p

RS: X M
1 Dorin van Rijsleberghe (NED), 23 p
2 Nick Dempsey (GBR), 44 p
3 Piort MYszka (POL), 70 p
10 Ivan Pastor (ESP), 123 p

FX
1 Erin Rahuse / Dannie Kunze (CAN), 9 p
2 Martine Grael / Kahena Kunze (BRA), 10 p
3 Sarah Steyaert / Aude Compan (FRA), 10 p
8 Támara Echegoyen / Berta Betanzos (ESP), 17 p

49er
1 Peter Burling / Blair Tuke (NZL), 2 p
2 Jorge Lima / José Costa (POR), 8 p
3 Erik Heil / Thomas Ploessel (GER), 9 p
9 Diego Botín / Iago López Marra (ESP), 21 p

Radial laser
1 Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN), 30 p
2 Marit Bouwmeester (NED), 40 p
3 Annalise Murphy (IRL), 44p
17 Alicia Cebrián (ESP), 97 p

Laser Standard
1 Tucci Stipanovic (CRO), 47 p
2 Robert Scheidt (BRA), 50 p
3 Tom Burton (AUS), 52 p
36 Joaquín Blanco (ESP), 221 p

470 M
1 Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic (CRO), 7 p
2 Matthew Belcher / Will Ryan (AUS), 9 p
3 Luke Patience / Chris Grube (GBR), 17 p
10 Jordi Xammar / Joan Herp (ESP), 37 p

470 F
1 Hannah Mills / Saskia Clark (GBR), 12 p
2 Ai Kondo / Miho Yoshioka (JPN), 15 p
3 Camille Lecointre / Helene Defrance (FRA), 15 p
12 Bàrbara Cornudella / Sara López (ESP), 44 p

STATEMENT

Marina Paliau
"It wasn't a bad day for me, but I feel like I could have done a little better. It has been a difficult day, with complicated conditions, changing winds in direction and intensity. Some girls have pricked, it's not my case, but it hasn't been a big day either. It's gonna be the most interesting Medal Race ever. We're seven women to win three medals. Crazy!"

Ivan Pastor
"I am very happy because today I have sailed very well. I wish the Medal Race would start right now. I will try to fight for an Olympic Diploma, which I have never been able to achieve."

Vela Rio 2016: Marina Paliau presents her candidacy to revalidate medal (11 / 08 / 2016)

Marina Paliau has placed fourth in Rio. Photo: Jesús Renedo

Marina Paliau today took a giant step in his aspirations to get medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in the RS: X Women class. The current champion has had its best day and has been placed six points from the first and five points from the second and third, respectively. In RS: X Male Ivan Pastor is tenth and tomorrow he will fight to enter the Medal Race. In 470 Feminino Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López have been placed tenths and in 470 Male Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp are ten seconds at the doors of the Medal posts. In Nacra 17 Fernando Echávarri are in position 17.

Paliau was aware that today was probably the most important day of this phase of classification that gives access to the Medal Race, and if so in the struggle for not losing sight of the positions of head. From the very beginning he came out with the idea of risking to the maximum and sailing as she knows. This has led him to perform a 7-2-1 and climb from the sixth to the fourth square, and not only that, but he has been fully involved in the fight for podium posts, in the absence of three sleeves and Sunday's Medal Race. He has the Italian leader Flavia Tartaglani and the French Charline Picon and the Russian Stefaniya Elfutina.

In 470 women Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López have had a good day in which they have climbed five posts and placed themselves in the area of Medal Race. The Catalan women have made a 7-11 that allows them to be among the top ten. They have the ninth, the Brazilian Fernada Oliveira / Ana Luiza Barbachan at eleven points and the first tenth, the Polacas Agnieszka Skrzypulec / Irmina Mrozek-Griszczynska at two. Today was a day when any failure could have paid for it and more with these winds of more than 20 knots with which Cornudella and López are not comfortable. The New Zealanders Jo Aleh / Polly Powrie are leaning.

Important was also the day for Ivan Pastor, but an 11-22-16 leave him in the tenth position in RS: X Male, although with three tests he still has options to enter Medal. It has at ten points the ninth Sebastian Felischer and the tenth, the Chinese Aichen Wang. In this class there has been a change of leadership, now occupied by Dutch Dorian van Rijsselberghe.

In Nacra 17 the team formed by Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco has not been doing too well. They left with a disqualified in the second test of the first day - which was resolved at the last hour of the harvest - and although they started the day with a good fifth place, the rest of positions were 16-15-10, which left them in the tenth position. They lead the Australians Jason Waterhouse / Lisa Darmanin.

Today both the Laser Radial and Standard rest and tomorrow they will return to action, as well as the 49er and FX classes, which will fight their first sleeves. Rest the class Nacra 17.

Statements:

Marina Paliau
"Today was my best day. I have sailed very well, fast as I did in training and also in a day with a very difficult wind. I was clear that if I didn't go for all of them today, I was out of it. Even my coach said," I've finally seen the Praise Navy I know. "

Bàrbara Cornudella
"We are very happy how things have gone. It was a very complicated day with this wind, but we managed to hold on and make two good sleeves."

Jordi Xammar
"It has been a very hard day with strong wind, wave and cold. The classification is very tight and we have no punctures."

Ivan Pastor
"I have made three good exits and the wind has been rattled, as I like it. It's hard to understand. The off-line the other day marked me a lot and now I just have to fight to get into the Medal."

CLASSIFICATIONS

RS: X F
1 Flavia Tartaglini (ITA), 35 p
2 Charline Picon (FRA), 36 p
3 Stefaniya Pitufina (RUS), 36 p
4 Marina Paliau (ESP), 41 p

RS: X M
1 Dorian van Rijsselberghe (NED), 16 p
2 Nick Dempsey (GBR), 24 p
3 Piotr Myszka (POL), 29 p
16 Ivan Pastor (ESP), 109 p

470 M
1 Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic (CRO), 4 p
2 Mathew Belcher / Will Ryan (AUS), 7 p
3 Panagiotis Mantis / Pavlos Kagialis (GRE), 9 p.
12 Jordi Xammar / Joan Herp (ESP), 28 p

470 F
1 Jo Aleh / Polly Powerie (NZL), 6 p
2 Ai Kondo / Miho / Yoshioka (JPN), 8 p
3 Hannat Mills / Saskia Clark (GBR), 11 p.
10 Bàrbara Cornudella / Sara López (ESP), 31 p

Born 17
1 Jason Waterhouse / Lisa Darmanin (AUS), 17 p
2 Ben Saxton / Nicola Groves (GBR), 17 p
3 Vittorio Bissauro / Silvia Sicouri (ITA), 26 p.
17 Fernando Echávarri / Tara Pacheco (ESP), 62 p

Vela Rio 2016. The "Navy" met with many difficulties (11 / 08 / 2016)

Alicia Cebrián planning on the waves of Rio on her Laser Radio. Photo: Jesús Renedo

The third day of the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 could be catalogued very complicated. In the fields inside Guanabara Bay, Pao de Açucar and Escola Naval, the wind has been very unstable in terms of intensity and direction with roles, wells and rain. And on the outside field, Ponte, the wind has been more frank but strong, with more than 25 knots and 30. It was the debut of the 470 and Nacra 17. Among them Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp, who have finished the best-rated day, in ninth position in 470 Male. In Feminino Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López have finished ten fifths and in Nacra 17 Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco tenth sextos. In Laser Radial, Alicia Cebrián is the fifth and in Standard White Joaquin thirty-sixth of the general. Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp began the Olympic Games with strength. The young Catalan crew marked a fourth place in 470 Male as an appetizer to what awaits them. Xammar and Herp were from the same exit at the front posts at the different buoy steps (6-5-8-7-4) until they ended up in this meritorious fourth place behind three of the favorite crews: Croatia, New Zealand and Austria. In the second manga of the day Xammar and Herp had many ups and downs, in very changing wind conditions. If they were already difficult, they got complicated with a cocksucker's entrance. In the end, the Spaniards entered the tenth place. They lead the Croats Sime Fantela / Igor Maneric, followed by the Australians Mathew Belcher / Will Ryan and third the New Zealanders Paul Snow- Hansen / Daniel Willcox.

Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López were not lucky in their debut in 470 Women (Photo Pedro Martínez).

Less luck had the girls from 470 Women. Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López were not able to find their site and they did not make a good exit, which forced them to take the opposite side of the race field than the first, making it impossible for them to recover positions, ending in the tenth position in their premiere. In the second test of the day, Catalan women improved with respect to the first test and were ten thirds. With these posts Cornudella and López occupy the fifth place of the general. The Japanese Ai Kondo / Miho Yoshioka, the second are the New Zealand Jo Aleh / Polly Powerie and the third are the Slovenian Tina Mrak / Veronika Macarol. In Nacra 17 Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco did not have a good start either, they made a tenth and a tenth second and they occupy the eighth place in the general. In the first manga they left in the middle of the fleet covered by many ships, which made it difficult for them to arrive at the first buoy. This, together with the fact that the Pao de Açucar race field was a lottery, in terms of wind direction changes and especially with constant wells, caused them to always sail to the fleet trailer. In the second they were sailing for much of the journey to the tenth place, in the end they would end in the twelve. A third manga was planned, but the conditions remained so unstable and increasingly with less sunlight, that the Committee concluded the day with two disputed evidence. Lideran the Swiss Matias Buhler / Nathalie Brugger, seconds are tied to points the British Ben Saxton / Nicola Groves and third the Argentine Santiago Lange / Cecilia Carranza. In Laser Radial Alicia Cebrián recovered five positions after a good day for the Tierfeña that made a tenth and an eighth place that put him in the tenth position in the general that bring him closer to the posts of Medal Race. He leads the Irish general Annalise Murphy, followed by the Danish Anne- Marie Rindom and the Dutch Marit Bouwmeester. In Laser Standard, Joaquín Blanco suffered a lot from strong wind conditions, with rachas of more than 30 knots. The canary made a 26 and 29 that place him at the 36 of the general leading the Croatian Tucci Stipanovic, second is the British Nick Thompson and third the Dutch Rutger van Schaandenburg. By Thursday the Laser Radial and Standard will have a rest day and will return to action the RS: X. tables

STATEMENTJordi Xammar"We are going to be satisfied with our debut at the Games. We were very clear that we could not pry and I think that at the end of the day being nays is a very good place to start."Bàrbara Cornudella"It has been a very complicated day, with very unstable wind conditions, we would have liked to be higher, but it has not been possible"Tara Pacheco"We are not satisfied with the way things have been. The wind has been a horror and we have not sailed under the minimum conditions S that is required in a race of this level"Alicia Cebrián"We have had a very hard day, with winds of more than 30 knots. In the end I have been able to save and continue to make progress in terms of results and in the overall classification"Joaquín Blanco"It's not being a good championship for me, it's also been conditioned by the two black flags of the first day. Today has been two very long and hard tests. Tomorrow we rest and hope to improve in the two remaining days and leave Rio with better taste of mouth"CLASSIFICATIONS 470 M 1 Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic (CRO), 3 p 2 Mathew Belcher / Will Ryan (AUS), 9 p 3 Paul Snow- Hansen / Daniel Willcox (NZL), 12 9 Jordi Xammar / Joan Herp (ESP), 20 p 470 F 1 Ai Kondo / Miho Yoshioka (JPN), 5 p 2 Jo Aleh / Polly Powerie (NZL), 7 p 3 Tina Mrika / Veronika Macarol (SLO), 8 p 15 Bàrbara Cornudella / Sara López (ESP), 28 p 17 1 Mathias Buhler / Nathalie Brugger (SUI), 8 p 2 Ben Saxton / Nicola Groves (GBR), 8 p 3 Santiago Lange / Cecilia Carranza (ARG), 13 p 18 Fernando Echavarri / Tara Pacheco (ESP), 28 p Laser Radial 1 Annalise Murphy (IRL), 19 p 2 Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN), 20 p 3 Marit Bouwmeester (NED), 21 15 Alicia Cebrián (ESP), 66 p Laser Standard 1 Tucci Stipanovic (CRO), 26 p 2. Nick Tompson (GBR), 35 p 3. Rutger van Schaardenburg (NED), 37 p 36 Joaquín Blanco (ESP), 148 p

River 2016 Sailing: Marina Paliau continues with medal possibilities (09 / 08 / 2016)

Alabau remains the best Spanish in this Olympic Games premiere. Photo: Jesús Renedo

The Sevillian Marina Paliau remains in front positions in the RS: X class at the Rio Olympic Games, once the equator of the competition in this class has been reached. Paliau is sixth of the general female category. Ivan Pastor has climbed to the tenth position and will continue in the struggle to be in the Medal Race. In Laser Radial, Alicia Cebrián is the 20th and in Standard White Joaquin, the 35th. Once the first cycle is completed, tomorrow you will have your first day of rest. In the days of Thursday and Friday he will seek the consolidation between the first five and the assault on the medal posts. Today he has made an 8-6-8 that place him sixth to thirteen points of the third classified, the Russian Stefaniya Elfutina. Lidera la italiana Flavia Tartaglini, followed by a point of the French Charline Picon. Praise the wisdom that there is still a lot of competition I commented at the end of the day that "we are in the middle of the championship and I have the best discard. The aim in this first part was not to make bad jobs and I have achieved it," on the conditions of this second day he comments that "the wind has been very complicated, with constant changes in intensity and direction" and that "I am happy with the speed I am having, I feel comfortable".

Marina Paliau fighting with the representatives of Russia and Israel (Photo Pedro Martínez)

A setback in the third and last manga prevented Ivan Pastor from being in the area of Medal Race right now. The alicantino who had made two sepmos was penalized by the Regatas Committee because of an off-line, which is now its discard. Pastor is the tenth in the general four points from the tenth, the Cypriot Andreas P. Cariolou. The British Nick Dempsey continues to be a leader in the first place with the Dutch Dorian van Rijsselberghe, which is second to one point. Third is Polish Piotr Myszka. In Laser Radial, the Tierfeña Alicia Cebrián had not just reassembled, after the ninth one achieved in the second manga of the inaugural day, was unable to keep up and on this second day of competition began with a 25 that put things very hard up, then a 12 that was not enough to get close to the posts that give access to the Medal Race - ten first. After today's day, Cebrián is the 20 of the general who leads the Chinese Lijia Xu, followed by the Irish Annalise Murphy and the Danish Anne- Marie Rindom. Cebrián said that "it's been two very complicated first days, I have a hard time sailing in the stern," the canary is being irregular as to the partial: "I'm there." - comment... "I'll fight to be at the Medal Race". In Laser Standard the grancanary Joaquín Blanco was not able to recover and was marked 25 and 41 that place at the 35 of the general. The Argentine Julio Asogaray is the new leader by overcoming today the Croatian Tucci Stipanovic, who has fallen to the second square, while the third has located New Zealand Sam Meech. White explains resigned that "after the two yellow flags of the first day I did not want to take risks, and this ends up paying." The grancanary expects things to change tomorrow: "We sail in the race fields outside the bay and hope to have better conditions there for me." Tomorrow the RS: X tables will have a rest day. The Laser Radial and Standard will play two sleeves and will play the Nacra 17 with Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco, with three sleeves planned in the Pao de Açucar regatta field and the 470 Male and Female with two tests in Escola Naval, with the crews of Jordi Xammar / Joan Herp and Bàrbara Cornudella / Sara López respectively.

CLASSIFICATIONS RS: X F 1 Flavia Tartaglini (ITA), 12 p 2 Charline Picon (FRA), 13 p 3 Stefaniya Elfutin (RUS), 18 p RS: X M 1 Nick Dempsey (GBR), 9 p 2 Dorian van Rijsselberghe (NED), 10 p 3 Piotr Myszka (POL), 16 p 11 Ivan Pastor (ESP), 60 pRadial laser 1 Likjia Xu (CHN), 7 p 2 Annalise Murphy (IRL), 12 p 3 Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN), 13 p 20 Alicia Cebrián (ESP), 46 pLaser Standard 1 July Asogaray (ARG), 7 p 2 Tucci Sipanovic (CRO), 13 p 3 Sam Meech (NZL), 14 p 35 Joaquín Blanco (ESP), 94

Marina Paliau shows her credentials at the premiere of Rio 2016 (Day 1)

Marina Paliau has started the Olympic Games with strength. Photo: Pedro Martínez

Marina Paliau's debut was the most outstanding on this first day of sailing tests at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. With all the focus placed on the current Olympic champion, Marina Paliau, who was able to maintain the temple that characterizes it and in the three tests of the day he was always in the positions of Medal Race without losing sight of the front positions. The Sevillian knowing that Olympic Games are a very long race and has already taken the measures to the race field and its rivals. At the end of the first day the Andalusian occupies the fifth position in the general. Paliau went from less to more and with an eighth, a seventh and a second, he demonstrated his power by placing himself at just three points of the podium, which for now clearly leads the French Charline Picon, which he did 1-2-1, followed by Russian Stefaniya Elfutina and Italian Flavia Tartaglini. Paliau commented at the end of the day that "I have a neutral, neither happy nor dishappy feeling. The important thing is that I'm upstairs and it's a good start to race." About the conditions of the day he said that "they have been spectacular, with good wind, this even looked like Weymouth. I've sailed fast." Ivan Pastor was in charge of opening the fire after a postponement of the inaugural test in the Pao de Açucar race area. RS: X Male was the first class to premiere in the waters of Guanabara Bay. The Alicantino did not have the expected debut and in this first trial finished the tenth, in a manga that would be won with authority by the British Nick Dempsey. English was again imposed in the second and the plywood was tenth. Everything changed in the third, in which Pastor was from the beginning of the first ten in the third and last manga of the day, at the end he ended tenth, which places him in the tenth position in the general, which leads with solvency the British Nick Dempsey, followed by the Dutch Dorian van Rijsselberghe and the Greek Vyron Kokkalanis. "The one of Santa Pola q uiere to keep the sensations of the last manga:" I have made good exits but I have been harmed by some other fellow maneuvers, especially in the first two sleeves. In the third the things have gone better, I have become among the first five in much of the sleeve. Probably if in the first two it had been as aggressive as in the last one it might have been better. "In Laser the start of the Spanish was discreet, they sailed in the race field of Escola Naval. After a first delay in the water for the wind to be established, the two tests were given out first in Standard and then in Radial, both Joaquín Blanco and Alicia Cebrián ended up in the twenty-eighth place on the first sleeve of the day. In men, the first leader was the Croatian Tucci Stipanovic and the Irish Radial Annalise Murphy. Cebrian in the second test of the day improved much with respect to the initial race, the tinerfeña was marked a tenth place after riding seventh and ninth the first two beacons of the tour. There the continental champion was more comfortable than after two tests occupies the twentieth position. The Chinese Lijia Xu, the Olympic champion in London, made her power prevail and is leader ahead of the Dutch Merit Bouwmeester and the Danish Anne- Marie Rindom. It was not so good for Blanco, that after the initial 28, he could not finish the second manga of the day as he had to withdraw due to two yellow flags - one per manga - by roking (repetition of unallowed back movements), provisionally occupying position 38 of the general head Stipanovic tied to points with the Argentine Julio Alsogaray, third is the Russian Sergei Komissarov. For tomorrow, the second day of sailing at the Rio Olympic Games, three more tests are planned for the RS classes: X and two for the Laser. He will enter into the Finn, though without Spanish representation. The 2016 Rio Olympic Games began with a gray day and a south-south-west wind first over 10 knots of intensity, which went up to 15.

Classifications RS: X Female 1 Charline Picon (FRA), 3 p 2 Stefaniya Elfutin (RUS), 7 p 3 Flavia Tartaglini (ITA), 6 p 5 Marina Paliau (ESP), 9 pRS: X Male 1 Nick Dempsey (GBR), 2 p 2 Dorian van Rijsselberghe (NED), 4 p 3 Vyron Kokkalanis (GRE), 4 p 17 Ivan Pastor (ESP), 27 pRadial laser 1 Lijia Xu (CHN), 7 p 2 Marit Bouwmeester (NED), 11 p 3 Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN), 14 p 20 Alicia Cebrián (ESP), 38 pLaser Standard 1 Tucci Stipanovic (CRO), 6 p 2 July Asogaray (ARG), 6 p 3 Sergei Komissarov (RUS), 11 p 38 Joaquín Blanco (ESP), 55 p