2023-12-30 18:58:55
Eight absolute winners and more than twenty champions by class is the balance of the 20th New Year’s Regatta, Kim Lythgoe Memorial, the last regatta of the year 2023 that has come to an end this Saturday, December 30, with a last day in white due to the absence of conditions in the Cadiz bay. The absence of wind has marked the three days of racing from beginning to end, to the point of leaving the iQFOil class deserted, and with a single test the ILCA 4 and the Raceboard and Techno boards, only the ILCA 7, ILCA 6 and the 420 have been able to scratch two. As there are no tests in the iQFOil class, there are also no winners of the Kim Lythgoe Memorial, which is deserted for the first time in its fifteen-year history.
In ILCA 4, Lucas Martín from RC El Candado wins the absolute and Under 16, category in which second and third place go to Álvaro Vivas from RC Mediterráneo and José Manuel Martín from CNM Benalmádena. Among the Under 16 girls, the winner is Alejandra Fresneda from CM Almería, also with a double, and she is accompanied on the podium by Laura Luna from CNM Benalmádena and María de la Corte from RCN de La Línea. In the highest age category, Sub 18, the winners are José Manuel Vargas from CAN Eslora and Mercedes Medel from CN Sevilla among the girls, with a trophy also for the second and third boys, won by Sorin Romero from CM Almería and José Manuel Pachón from CNM Benalmádena.
In ILCA 7, first place goes to the Ukrainian Adrii Verdysh, Under 21 winner over Adriano Giménez from CM Almería and Enrique Díaz from RCN de la Línea. The absolute championship goes to the first senior, Guillermo Flores from Huelva from CN Río Piedras, second overall after the visitor. In ILCA 6, the winners are Marta Franco from Cádiz from CN Elcano, first absolute and female, escorted on this podium by Valeria García from CM Almería and Paula Ruz from RC Mediterráneo, the three members of the educational and sports excellence program (CEEDA) of the Junta de Andalucía, which takes place at the Bahía de Cádiz Specialized Sports Technique Center for Sailing. Among the boys, Eduardo Orihuela from CN Sevilla wins, second behind Franco, followed by Luis García from RC Mediterráneo, third overall, and Iván Vides from RCMT Punta Umbría.
In the 420 class, the tiebreaker after two tests in favor of the crew of Josete Ruiz and Carlos Flethes is final and the title goes to the crew of the CN Puerto Sherry.
In the Raceboard class the winners are Curro Manchón, absolute and master, Borja Carracedo in senior, María Antonia Domínguez in women, Paco Manchón in super veterans and Eloísa Tarancón in Sub 21, all of them representing CN Sevilla. Also receiving a trophy are the Under 21 Claudia Cardosa (CN Sevilla) and José Francisco Palomino (CN Puerto Sherry), second and third, and Nicolás Auriol (CV Dársena) and Jacobo López (CNM Benalmádena), second and third Master/Grand Master.
In the Techno classes, in Sub 17, the men’s podium has Daniel de la Serna from CNM Benalmádena at the top, followed by Ángel Escudero and Max González, both from RCN de Valencia, while among the girls the windsurfer from RCN de Torrevieja, Adriana Bernabé, wins over the CN Puerto Sherry sailor, Encarnación Román. Without a female podium, in Under 15 all the protagonism goes to Curro Sinbad Llorca (San Isidoro/CN Sevilla), absolute champion, and in Under 13 the winners are Jorge Brotons from Torrevieja over Daniel Dorronsoro from CNM Benalmádena among the boys, and the young Olivia Sánchez from the CN Sevilla on Anna Marante from the CN Puerto Sherry and Ángela Díaz from the CNM of Benalmádena. The first girl is also awarded with Small Candle, a title that goes to Conchita Montesinos from Torrevieja.
Last regatta of the year and last trophy presentation, in a ceremony that took place in the ceremonial courtyard of the Bahía de Cádiz Specialized Sailing Sports Technology Center, in an event that was attended by Paco Coro, president of the Andalusian Federation de Vela and the Councilor for Youth and Sports of the El Puerto de Santa María City Council and Andalusian parliamentarian, José Ignacio González Nieto.
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