Iglesias and Gonzalez del Castillo favorites of the Vithas Vigo Trophy that starts with 143 optimists

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14/04/2023

Updated at 6:30 p.m.

Bruno Iglesias from the Club Náutico Deportivo de Ribeira and Fernando González from the Castillo of the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña, are the maximum candidates a priori, to win the Trofeo Vithas Vigo that organized by the Club Marítimo de Canido is celebrated this weekend in water viguesas del Campo de Regatas de las Islas Cíes.

The two U16 athletes belonging to the Royal Galician Sailing Federation lead the 2022-23 ranking with an accumulated total of 893 points, being the third in contention, with 808 points, Paco Riveras Muiños from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo… who is surprising because of his youth, since he is U13 like his clubmate, Alejandro Alonso… who is in sixth place.

Among them Jaime Díaz and Javier García Estrada from Marina Coruña; being the seventh place for the first girl… an optimist with a splendid future: Aitana Pérez González from the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona.

In eighth place is Pedro Vecino from Náutico de Vigo, ninth is the second female Carolina Comesaña of the host, from Club Marítimo de Canido; Closing the top ten was Flavia Rodríguez from A Coruña from the Real Club Náutico… just ahead of another of the Galician sailing promises, Luis Wizner Pérez-Lafuente from the club chaired by José Antonio Portela. All those mentioned, who are the best to date in the Galician fleet, have entered this Vithas Vigo Trophy, which is a qualifier for the Spanish Optimist Cup.

The fleet is divided into two large groups: 73 from the so-called yellow group, which are the highest category, and 70 in the blue. In the first, the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña is the entity with the largest number of athletes: 16 (7 girls and 9 boys). The rest are Náutico de Vigo 14 (4 and 10), Marítimo de Canido and Marina Coruña 9 (4 and 5), Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo 7 (3 and 4), Náutico Rodeira 6 (4 and 2), Ribeira 5 ( 1 and 4), Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona 4 (2 and 2), with 2 boys Fluvial from As Pontes, with a girl from Bazán from Ferrol and with a boy from Marítimo Oza from La Coruña.

In blue, in addition to those mentioned that are represented in the majority… the Club de Mar de Cariño, the Alamar Sada, the Ria de Ares, the Real Club de Mar Aguete de Marín and the Club de Mar de Cariño will also be present

The Cíes Islands Race Course will be the setting, with two days: Saturday starting at two in the afternoon and Sunday starting at ten thirty in the morning. Being six tests scheduled, with a duration of just under an hour … and the closure on Sunday at half past five in the afternoon at the facilities of the Club Marítimo de Canido.


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