The Viguese quote of the Excellent Cup of the AECIO (Pep Portas) ended

The Barceloness Arnau Gelpí of the Nautical Club El Balís, has proclaimed himself the absolute winner of the Meeting of Optimist that has concluded in the Ría de Vigo organized by the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo and that marked the beginning of the Circuit of Excellence of the AECIO. The Catalan that was part of the Spanish Selection in the European Championship held in Italy, also participated this October in the Abanca Week, in the Gijón Optimist Experience that was the first act of the Kinder Trophy to be placed in fifth place.

Arnau Gelpí faced the last day, to solamnte two points of the vigués Ricardo Fernández del Marítimo de Canido that he could not with the pressure of his place of privilege: partial of 16, 26... passing from the leadership to the 27th place of the gold group. The podium was made up of the Catalan, Yago Barca of the Royal Nautical Club of Sanxenxo and Frederique Van Eupen of the Royal Yacht Club of Belgium.

Final Classification

1 Arnau Gelpí del CN El Balís (Spain), 25 points
2nd Yago Barca del RCN Sanxenxo (Spain), 35
3rd Frederique Van Eupen del CWB (Belgium), 65
4th Beatriz Gago del CN Portimáo (Portugal), 67
5th Alberto Morales del RCN Arrecife (Spain), 73
6th Jorge Javier Garcia del RCN La Coruña (Spain), 75
7th India Page-Wood (England), 80
8th Finley Dickinson (England), 84
9th Sebastián Riquelme del CN El Balís (Spain), 91
10th Guilherme Cavaco (GCN Faro) (Portugal), 94

Second Day: Spanish Domain in the General

The International Meeting Vigo City of Optimist, under the organization of the Royal Viguese Nautical Club, is serious. On a day with loose winds from the north-east but sufficient to dispute the trials, the regatta committee managed to complete four sleeves in the blue and red groups and three in the yellow to match the regatists and make the cut for the title: the group Oro, which this Monday is played the triumph, have accessed 83 regatists, and all points to that between the first five, four Spanish and one Belgian, will play the triumph. In addition, there are nine Spaniards at the Top Ten.

There have been surprises on this second day. Samuel Beneyto (RCN Gran Canaria), current champion of Spain, had gone very badly on the first day (posts 12 and 69) in the yellow group, but repeating group this Sunday showed that he wants to finish as high as possible and signed a third, an eleventh and a fifth positions that have taken him to the group Oro with 31 points. He's a long way from the leader... but he's here. Those who stayed outside the main group, of those who fight for the podium, were Alvaro Tortosa (CN Puerto Sherry), the first leader of the red group on Friday. He made sixth and also a thirty, but was condemned by two out of line who sank him. The offline were numerous on this day. The Gold group, of course, can boast of great emotions. There comes leader Ricardo Fernández (Marítimo de Canido), with an enviable regularity in the yellow group (two first, one fourth and one sixth) only tarnished by the discarding of an offline in the penultimate race of the day. Its 12 points are stalked by the 14 of Arnau Gelpi (CN El Balís), a Spanish regatist who signed a victory, a third place and two fifths squares in the red group... and an off-line in the last trial. Without demeaning other regatists, because any error can lead to glory or classified hell, two regatists of the RCN Sanxenxo, Yago Barca and Bruno Ameneiro, appear in third and fourth place, respectively, with 16 and 17 points. Barca signed a partial victory in the fifth race of the red group, in which Gelpi was, while Ameneiro added two wins in the blue. With the same score as Ameneiro is the Belgian William Risselin, with grimpola lusa (GCN Faro), who already in the Cidade Trophy of Viana, seven days ago (punctuable for the Atlantic week), ended it as second in male category. The final day is full of emotion. In addition to the Vigo title, the Optimist Excellence Cup circuit is also in play in the first place. Luis Simó (CN Javea, 18 points), Berta Campos (RCR Alicante, 20), Jaume Alcover (CN El Balís, 20), Helena Pérez Canal (Marítimo de Canido, 21), Mario Soares (Marítimo de Canido, 21) or Mariano Stinga (RCN Arrecife, 22) are a handful of podium points on a day that points to the control of the Spanish fleet against Belgians, Portuguese, British, Latvian, Mexican, Irish and Italian.

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First Day: Spanish-luso dominion on the first day of the meeting of Optimist vigués

First event of the Meeting International City of Vigo, first test of the selective Excellence Optimist Cup. The episode 1 of the battle of the Ria de Vigo was taken by Alvaro Tortosa (CN Puerto Sherry) in the red group, Bruno Ameneiro (RCN Sanxenxo) in the blue and the Portuguese Beatriz Cintra (CN Portimao) in the yellow, the three groups in which a fleet of 245 units of categories A and B. was divided The white group, category C (the most new regatists), ended up led by Pedro Martínez (RCN Rodeira) on a day that could not complete the three planned races but that saved the face despite the pessimistic initial wind forecasts.

With an hour and a half of delay for almost all fleets except for the yellow group, the one that managed to complete two tests of the three that were distributed the categories A-B, a wind of mouth that reached the 12 knots allowed to start the races. In the yellow group Beatriz Cintra (Naval Clube de Portimao) gave first. He already dominated the Trophy of Viana do Castelo (three first posts) a week ago and on this occasion he won the first race and made third in the second. Ricardo Fernández (Marítimo de Canido) won the second race and finished with 7 points, followed by the Belgian William Risselin (GCN Faro) with 8.

Alvaro Tortosa, Bruno Ameneiro, Beatriz Cintra and Pedro Martínez command after the first day

In the blue group, Bruno Ameneiro (RCN Sanxenxo), who already sent in Portugal (three first), won the only race held, with Berta Campos (RCR Alicante) and the Belgian Van Eupen (RYC) on the stalk. And in the blue group, Alvaro Tortosa (CN Puerto Sherry) was made with the partial triumph, followed by the luso Sebastiao Caiado (CN Cascais) and the Latvian Eduards Plavins (Riga YC). And in category C, with about thirty ships, Pedro Martínez (RCN Rodeira) was the most regular (second and third) to become a provisional leader. The Portuguese Salvador Fernandes (CV Tejo) and Benedita Rebelo (SC Porto) distributed the partial victories and totaled 6 and 8 points, respectively. In a day with many off-line, the fall of the wind in the magnificent race field in front of A Guía led to the return of the fleet to the marina and the decision of the regatta director, Fernando Giraldo, to advance 60 minutes the following days of competition, with order of departure for 10: 00 hours instead of 11: 00, seeking to take advantage of the saviour wind of mouth in the face of unfavorable weather parts.

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Deportists from eight countries that have been coming in constant drip since Wednesday have copped the marina with the British as the first foreign expedition to appear. And first thing this Saturday, the last registered clubs will appear. The organization has counted 270 regatists of half a hundred nautical clubs for this first test of the Optimist Excellence Cup circuit, a competition sponsored by Aecio, the association that rules the class.

With more than 80 Portuguese registered, the foreign Navy adds up to 20 other ships between Belgians, Latvian, Italian, Irish, British and Mexican. Belgas and Latvian have already sailed the previous weekend in Viana do Castelo. In 2014 they competed in Vigo 204 units, when the test did not belong to the Excellence Cup, compared to 216 last fall, already in the select circuit. The percentage has now increased by about one third (32.3 per cent) and the number of countries represented has increased by two.

The best Meeting International City of Vigo of Optimist, under the organization of the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo, is held in the river from this Saturday to Monday (Pep Portas)

Besides, the level is magnificent. A branch of regatists belongs to their respective national teams or has participated in the European Championship in Crotone (Italy) or the Vilamoura World Championship (Portugal). The Mexicans Alejandro and Sebastián Riquelme, from the Catalan El Balís, Arnau Gelpí, from their same club, Samuel Beneyto (RCN de Gran Canaria) and Alberto Morales (RCN de Arrecife), champion and subchampion of Spain, respectively... and numbers 2 and 1 of the national ranking, of which Marçal Costa (CV Palamós), Gelpí and José María Batlle (RCN de Arrecife) have also been registered, while María Perelló and Joan Fiol (CN's Arenal) can presume to be champions of Spain. There will also be the Irish Harry Twomey or the Belgians Soetkin Orbie and Marine Pintelon have disputed the Italian European, while their compatriots Brecht Zwaenepoel and Van Eupen have fought in the World Cup as well as the lute Guilherme Capaco and Beatriz Gago.