· The one-design competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates will be held over four days during the months of October and November

· The tests begin next weekend in the bay and the Virazón de Miguel Lago, winner of the previous edition, will participate among others.

· The Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy marks the end of the Monte Real regatta season, which included 10 competitions throughout the year

The J80 class will be the protagonist, starting next weekend, of the Banco Sabadell Trophy, the last of the competitions that the Monte Real Club de Yates organizes this year, and the regatta that will put an end to the sailing season of the 2016 in Baiona.

The trophy, intended exclusively for the J80 monotypes, will be played in a league format over four days, on October 15 and 29 and November 12 and 26. The boats will sail as a fleet, will compete in real time and will carry out a maximum of 3 tests per day, predictably windward-leeward routes, with two upwind and two stern, although everything will depend on the weather conditions of each stage.

Among the boats that have already confirmed their participation in the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy are the crews that managed to get on the podium of the previous edition. Miguel Lago’s Virazón, champion in 2015, will try to repeat victory, and in 2016 he returns to the water with his usual team, formed by Juan Lago, Javier Lago and Gerardo Alonso.

Asturian Juan Luis Tuero’s Luna Nueva, who won silver in the last edition, will be another of those competing this year in the Monte Real autumn league. On board the boat, led by Tuero, will be Miguel Cidrás, Rogelio Torres and Pedro Núñez.

Another of the regulars at the J80 class competitions held in Baiona, the Alumisel, will also fight for victory, with Willy Caaamaño at the helm, and Marcos Alonso, José Quiñones and Jacobo Vecino completing a crew that came third last year. Among the rest of the fleet, the Namasté of Luis de Mira, the Ferralemes of Enrique Porto or the Pazo de Cea of María Campos, among others.

The Banco Sabadell Trophy is part of the Monte Real Club de Yates project to promote the J80 in Galicia, organizing two competitions exclusively for this class, and including the monotypes as a class in the rest of its competitions, with independent start and classification.

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· The inscriptions of the 215 participating athletes made it possible to raise 5,375 euros for the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities

· Jacobo Crego and Aida García placed the Vedra Olympic Club at the top of the podium by winning the absolute male and female categories

· The Spanish triathlon runner-up José Luis García Serrano “Jota” participated in the competition and the paralympic athlete Susana Rodríguez Gacio was the godmother

The fishing village of Baiona hosted this Saturday the second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon, a competition organized by the Baiona City Council and the Monte Real Club de Yates with the sponsorship of Verti Seguros with the aim of raising funds to promote adapted sailing in Galicia.

Two hundred and fifteen athletes from different parts of the country lined up behind the starting line to compete in the three tests of a sprint triathlon. They completed a 750-meter swim in the bay of Baiona, cycled 20 kilometers through the streets of Baiona and ran 5 kilometers on the Monte Boi peninsula, surrounding the historic Parador Nacional.

The fastest took just one hour to complete the entire route and cross the finish line. It was Jacobo Crego, from the Vedra Olympic, winner in the absolute men’s category. His teammate, Aida García, took the victory in the women’s category, both lifting the Vedrense club to the top of the podium of this II Baiona Solidarity Vertiathlon.

In second and third position were, in the men’s category, Ricardo Rey, from Nosporlimit; and Iago Vara, from the Sireno Triathlon Club; and in the women’s category, Ángela Chapela, from the Vedra Olympic team, and Nuria Álvarez, with a license for one day.

In the veterans category, the victories went to the province of A Coruña. The Nosporlimit from the city of glass was placed first in the men’s category by Ricardo Rey; and Aida García, from the Vedra Olympic team, climbed to the top step of the women’s competition. Carlos Coira (Vilagarcía Triathlon / Atenas Running) and Cristobal Cacheda (Team Corbelo) completed the men’s podium; and María José Velázquez from Vigo and Sandra Santodomingo from Baiona, the feminine one.

In the cadet category, the victory went to José Benito Silva, from the Beariz Triathlon, who could not be beaten by Marcos González (Mar de Vigo Triathlon Club) and Alejandro Crespo (Beariz Triathlon), who had to settle for second and third place .

In addition, prizes were awarded to the best classified registered in Baiona, who were Antonio Liébanas, who last June had already won the Baiona popular triathlon, and Sandra Santodomingo.

Once the distribution of prizes was finished, the General Director of Verti Seguros, Enrique Flores, was in charge of delivering, to the Monte Real Club de Yates, the check for the amount collected with the registrations of the Vertiathlon. Five thousand three hundred and seventy-five euros that the Baiona club will allocate entirely to its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.

Created in 2012 under the slogan “Sailing for all”, the school’s main objective is to bring people with all kinds of disabilities closer to the sea, so that they can sail under equal conditions, in facilities without barriers and on board adapted boats. . The work carried out since then has earned it, among other distinctions, recognition from ADEAC, the Spanish Association for Environmental and Consumer Education.

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· The competition will raise funds for the Adapted Sailing School of the Monte Real Yacht Club, which provides services to associations of people with disabilities in Galicia

· Participants must complete a swimming test in the bay of Baiona, a cycling test through various streets of the town and a race around the Parador

· The Olympic Susana Rodríguez Gacio will be the godmother of the event in which the blind athlete, runner-up of Spain in the triathlon José Luis García Serrano “Jota” will participate

· The second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon is once again organized by Monte Real and the Baiona council with the collaboration of Fegatri and the sponsorship of Verti Seguros

More than 200 athletes will participate this Saturday in the second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon, a competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Baiona council with the sponsorship of Verti Seguros to raise funds for the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School, which provides services to associations of people with disabilities throughout Galicia.

The tests, coordinated by the Galician Triathlon Federation, will begin at four in the afternoon with a swim between the beaches of Barbeira and A Ribeira, in the urban center of Baiona. After completing those 750 meters of swimming, the athletes must pick up their bicycles in the La Palma area to pedal 20 kilometers and complete several laps between the Baredo and Santa Marta roundabouts. The last race of the day will be a 5-kilometre race along the trails of the Monte Boi peninsula, where the Parador Nacional is located.

More than 200 athletes from different parts of Galicia and Spain will participate in this second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon. Among them, the presence of the Spanish triathlon runner-up and member of the Spanish paratriathlon team, José Luis García Serrano, better known as “Jota”, stands out. Blind since the age of 29, the athlete from Madrid will complete the different tests of the Vertiathlon tied by a rope to his guide.

And although she will not participate in the tours, this year the Olympian Susana Rodríguez Gacio will also be present in Baiona, who is sponsoring the Vertiathlon again. She will be in charge of kicking off the competition and handing out the prizes to the winners.

At the awards ceremony, which will be held at a quarter to seven in the afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates facilities, Verti Seguros managers will present the club from Baiona with the check with the amount collected from the registrations of the more than 200 participants. A money that the club will allocate, entirely, to its Adapted Sailing School, in which people with disabilities from all over Galicia sail throughout the year.

In the first edition of the Vertiathlon, in which the winners were Brais Misa from the Porriño Athletics Club and Mar Villar from Trinorth Nogasa, 5,750 euros were raised.

Official presentation this morning in Baiona

The II Solidarity Vertiathlon of Baiona was officially presented this morning in Baiona, at a press conference in which the vice president of the Monte Real Yacht Club, Alejandro Retolaza, thanked Verti Seguros for its sponsorship and the collaboration of numerous firms and companies that have put their grain of sand so that more and more people with disabilities can approach the sea and navigate under equal conditions. The vice president of the Baiona club also dedicated a few words to the more than 150 volunteers who will help on Saturday in the different stages of the Vertiathlon.

The mayor of Baiona, Ángel Rodal, also took part in the presentation, who highlighted the solidarity aspect of a competition that he predicted would be a great success in the future. “Of all the sporting events that are celebrated in the town, this is – said the alderman – , one of the most special due to the solidarity that it implies between sports”.

The Xunta de Galicia’s General Secretary for Sport, José Ramón Lete, also had an impact on this solidarity, a characteristic to which he added those of inclusion and equality. That is why –he assured- that I am here today, “because from the Xunta de Galicia we are committed to sport for all and for all”.

Also present at the press conference were the deputy for sports from the Pontevedra Provincial Council, Consuelo Besada; the mayor of Nigrán, Juan González; and the president of the Galician Triathlon Federation, Oscar José Surís.

Special traffic operation for Saturday

In order to guarantee the correct celebration of the II Solidarity Vertiathlon, the Baiona Local Police will cut off the PO-552 between the Puga roundabout and the Rocamar roundabout. The cut will last for two hours, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., at which time the cycling event is expected to end.

There will be, yes, alternative itineraries for drivers. Vehicles that want to enter or leave downtown Baiona can access via the EP-2202 (ascent to the Virgen de la Roca), via the EP-2201 (ascent to Baíña) and via the EP-2203 (Baredo); and those who want to go towards Oia or Vigo, can use the AG-57 ring road.

Two more changes that will take place during the Vertiathlon will affect the taxi rank, which will be moved to Brasil Street, and the ATSA bus stop, which will be located next to the Monte Real service station.

TECHNICAL DETAILS II BAIONA SOLIDARITY VERTIATHLON

• TECHNICAL MEETING> 11:00 at the House of Navigation Museum (Rúa Ventura Misa, 15)
• DELIVERY OF DORSALS> 14:00 – 15:30 at the Monte Real Yacht Club
• MATERIAL CONTROL> 14:30 – 15:45 next to Barberira Beach
• FEMALE DEPARTURE> 16:00 in Ribeira Beach
• PT5 OUTPUT> 16:01 in Ribeira Beach
• MALE DEPARTURE> 16:06 in Ribeira Beach
• AWARDS> 18:45 at the Monte Real Yacht Club

· The 33-year-old blind athlete and member of the Spanish paratriathlon team is one of the most recognized athletes in this discipline

· On October 8, he will compete in the Vertiathlon to raise funds for the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.

· Sponsoring the event will be Susana Rodríguez Gacio, from Vigo, who has just fulfilled one of her dreams by competing in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

· This Tuesday a new registration period opens to complete the last 35 places and reach the maximum of 250 that the Fegatri allows

The Spanish triathlon runner-up, José Luis García Serrano, will participate on October 8 in the second edition of the Baiona Vertiathlon, a charity event that will raise funds for the Monte Real Club Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities of yachts.

The 33-year-old athlete from Madrid, blind since he was 29, will be one of the 250 athletes who will participate in the competition, for which a new registration period opens tomorrow, Tuesday, to cover the last 35 places.

Known in the sports world as “Jota”, José Luis García won silver this year in the Spanish triathlon championship and the paratriathlon world series held in Australia, as well as a bronze in the world series in South Africa. Member of the Spanish paratriathlon team, he is currently one of the most recognized athletes in this discipline.

In Baiona, Jota will compete against other athletes without disabilities. Attached by a rope to his guide, he will try to complete, in the shortest time possible, the 750-meter swim, 20-kilometer bike ride and 5-kilometre run that are included in the program of the II Solidarity Vertiathlon. A circuit that will be carried out, in its entirety, in the town of Baiona, including the waters of the bay for the swimming test, several streets in the center for the bicycle section and the surroundings of the Parador Nacional for the walking test.

Sponsoring the event will be, one more year, the paratriathlete from Vigo Susana Rodríguez Gacio, who has just fulfilled one of her dreams by competing, this very weekend, in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, where she achieved an Olympic diploma by being in fifth position.

In the first edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon, held in September 2015, 230 people participated, whose registrations raised 5,750 euros for the Adapted Sailing School of the Monte Real Yacht Club, whose main objective is to bring the world of sailing closer to people with some kind of disability.

This second edition is once again organized by the Baiona yacht club and the Baiona town hall, with the collaboration of the Galician Triathlon Federation and the sponsorship of Verti Seguros.

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The monarch emeritus also collected one of the Storax 6m class prizes from the Baiona club, in which he sailed aboard the Gallant and achieved second place overall

· Aceites Abril, Movistar, Bunda and Aeris won in the ORC classes, Deep Blue in Open, Pingüino Uno in Classics, Alibaba II in 6m

· In the HELLO! Ladies Cup was won by the crew skippered by Elena Saez of the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona and in J80 the Okofen of Javier de la Gándara del Monte Real

The Fifty by Storax led by Rui Ramada won the Fourth Atlantic Cruise Circuit trophy and the Count of Barcelona Don Juan de Borbón award

This afternoon in Baiona, King Juan Carlos presided over the awards ceremony for the Prince of Asturias Trophy, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Naval Military School of Marín. The monarch emeritus also collected one of the prizes in the 6m Storax class, in which he sailed with Pedro Campos aboard the Gallant, achieving second place overall.

Ahead of the King in the 6m classification was Miguel Lago from Vigo who, aboard the Alibaba II of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, completed two fantastic regattas in this thirty-first edition of the Príncipe de Asturias. Erica de Violeta Álvarez, who ran for the Royal Yacht Squadron, closed the class winners’ podium.

In the competition for the big boats, the victory went to the Aceites Abril, owned by the brothers Luis and Jorge Pérez Canal, from the Náutico de Vigo. They won the Optica Studio ORC 1 class leaving the second and third place on the podium to Fifty by Storax of the Portuguese Rui Ramada, from Monte Real; and the Arroutado by José Manuel Pérez, from Portosín.

In the Aceites Abril ORC 2 class, the Movistar, intractable in all the tests, once again prevailed in the Bayonne trophy. Skippered on this occasion by Willy Alonso, those from Sanxenxo beat Solventis led by Malalo Bermúdez, from Monte Real; and Fran Edreira’s Inosa, from Marina Sada, who came second and third respectively.

Jacobo Solorzano’s Bunda, from the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña, was the clear winner in the Gadis ORC 3 class. Two boats from the organizing club completed the podium, Juan José Martínez’s Burla Negra and Luis Manuel García’s Unus.

The victory of the Coca Cola ORC 4 class went to the Aeris of the Royachts Club, with Mariano Dios at the controls. The Portuguese Frederico Lopes, achieved the second position aboard his Margem do Azul III; and Fernando Rey’s Albarellos got a creditable third place.

In the Bel and Bel ORC Open class, victory went to Vigo, led by Vicente Cid’s Deep Blue. The Pitoucho of the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas, skippered by José Carlos Ruiz, won the silver and the bronze went to Villano’s people from Coruña, with Luis Bodelón at the helm.

Penguin One by Carlos Romero, from Canido; Belisa by José Manuel Cores, from Agabace; and the Navy’s Arosa, skippered by Oscar Ortega, were the winners in the Vanguard Classics class.

In this thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, the J80 monotypes also went out on the water, which were able to compete in a total of seven tests in the three days that the competition lasted. The winner was Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, who ran wearing a pendant from Monte Real. Pablo Martínez’s Marina Coruña and Francisca Barros’s Miudo by Storax closed the winners’ podium.

In the HELLO! Ladies Cup, in which some of the best patron saints in Spain competed, won the ¡HOLA! led by Elena Saez, from the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona. The HELLO! Fashion Monthly by Marta Ramada and the Fashion ¡HOLA! of Amparo Mollá, also collected a trophy, as second and third classified.

At the awards gala held in Baiona, the Conde de Barcelona Don Juan de Borbón trophy was also awarded to the best ship with a Portuguese crew and the ciborium of the IV Atlantic Cruise Circuit. Both awards went to Fifty by Storax by Rui Ramada, from Monte Real.

The Baionese club also gave a special mention to the students of the Juan María de Nigrán Center for people with disabilities, some boys and girls who sail at the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School throughout the year, and who this weekend also participated in the competition. They received the distinction from the hands of King Juan Carlos, the star without a doubt of the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy.

Having concluded its most emblematic regatta, which it has organized uninterruptedly since 1986, the Monte Real Club de Yates is already setting its sights on its next competitions, which return in the autumn with the J80 league.

WINNERS OF THE 31ST PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY

WINNER OF THE FOURTH ATLANTIC CRUISE CIRCUIT

FIFTY BY STORAX – RUI RAMADA – MRCYB

OPTICAL CLASS STUDIO ORC 1

1. APRIL OILS – LUIS AND JORGE PÉREZ CANAL – RCN VIGO
2. FIFTY BY STORAX – RUI RAMADA – MRCYB
3. ARROUTADO – JOSÉ MANUEL PÉREZ – RCN PORTOSÍN

CLASS OILS APRIL ORC 2

1. MOVISTAR – WILLY ALONSO – RCN SANXENXO
2. SOLVENTIS – MALALO BERMÚDEZ – MRCYB
3. INOSA – FRAN EDREIRA – MARINA SADA

GADIS ORC 3 CLASS

1. BUNDA – JACOBO SOLORZANO – RCN CORUÑA
2. THE BLACK MOCK – JUAN JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ – MRCYB
3. UNUS – LUIS MANUEL GARCIA – MRCYB

COCA COLA ORC CLASS 4

1. AERIS – MARIANO DIOS – ROYACHTS CLUB
2. MARGEM DO AZUL – FREDERICO LOPES – MRCYB
3. ALBARELLOS – FERNANDO REY – PORTONOVO CN

BEL AND BEL OPEN CLASS

1. DEEP BLUE – VICENTE CID – RCN VIGO
2. PITOUCHO – JOSÉ CARLOS RUIZ – LM BOUZAS
3. VILLAIN – LUIS BODELON – RCN CORUÑA

STORAX CLASS 6M

1. ALIBABA II – MIGUEL LAGO – ROYAL THAMES YC
2. GALLANT – HM KING JUAN CARLOS – RCN SANXENXO
3. ERICA – VIOLETA ALVAREZ – ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON

CLASSIC VANGUARD CLASS

1. PENGUIN ONE – CARLOS ROMERO – CM CANIDO
2. BELISA – JOSÉ MANUEL CORES – AGABACE
3. AROSA – OSCAR ORTEGA – CR ARMADA

SOLVENTIS J80 CLASS

1. OKOFEN – JAVIER DE LA GANDARA – MRCYB
2. MARINA CORUÑA – PABLO MARTINEZ – RCN CORUÑA
3. MIUDO BY STORAX – FRANCISCA BARROS – WE DO SAILING

¡HELLO! LADIES CUP

1. HELLO! – ELENA SAEZ – RCN BARCELONA
2. HELLO! FASHION MONTHLY – MARTA RAMADA – WE DO SAILING
3. FASHION HELLO! – AMPARO MOLLÁ – FEMAVE

COUNT OF BARCELONA DON JUAN DE BORBÓN AWARD

FIFTY BY STORAX – RUI RAMADA – MRCYB

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His Majesty King Juan Carlos I is already in Baiona to participate as a sailor in the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín, sponsored by Storax, Terras Gauda , HI THERE! and Galician Sport.

The monarch emeritus arrived at the Baiona yacht club after eleven o’clock in the morning accompanied by his friend and racing partner, the Galician Pedro Campos, with whom he will compete in the Storax 6m class. They will sail aboard the Gallant, owned by José Cusí, a 1947 sailboat with a track record that highlights a World Championship and a European Championship.

Upon his arrival at the Monte Real Yacht Club, Don Juan Carlos was received by the president of the Monte Real Yacht Club, José Luis Álvarez, the president of the naval regatta commission of the Military Naval School of Marín, Vicente Rubio; and the president of Bodegas Terras Gauda, José María Fonseca Moretón.

The King Emeritus will sail in the Prince of Asturias Trophy today and tomorrow, and will preside over the awards ceremony for the winners on Sunday at six in the afternoon at the Monte Real facilities.

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· The competition was attended this Saturday by the monarch emeritus aboard the Gallant who managed to get on the provisional podium of the Storax 6m class

· The Aceites Abril, the Movistar and the Bunda lead the classification of the big boats that the scarce wind only allowed them to compete in a single race

· In the Solventis J80 class, Pablo Martínez’s Marina Coruña took the lead and in the ¡HOLA! Ladies Cup tops the rankings on HELLO! by Elena Saez

The Prince of Asturias Trophy that is being held these days in Baiona under the organization of the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Naval Military School of Marín today featured a luxury sailor among the fleet, King Juan Carlos. The monarch emeritus sailed in the Storax 6m class and managed to get on the provisional podium after the two races held in the bay of Baiona.

On board the Gallant, and accompanied by Pedro Campos, the king achieved third place overall, behind the Royal Thames Yacht Club’s Alibaba II, skippered by Miguel Lago, who won both races held in what was the first day of regattas for the 6m. In second place was the Erica of the Royal Yacht Squadron, skippered by Violeta Álvarez.

The 6m competition took place inside the bay, with good conditions considering the forecast, which announced a day with very little wind. The big boats, of the Optica Studio ORC 1, Aceites Abril ORC 2, and Gadis ORC 3 classes, haggled outside, with somewhat more complicated sailing conditions. The start was delayed several hours compared to the scheduled time and the northwest wind, of low intensity, shifty and with some bald spots, only allowed the holding of one test.

In the baton disputed by the ORC 1, with three upwind and three stern, the Fifty by Storax of the Monte Real Club de Yates won, skippered by Rui Ramada, but the Aceites Abril of the brothers Luis and Jorge Pérez Canal, of the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, continues to lead the general classification. The Marnatura Pairo, with Luis Bugallo leading the crew, entered the provisional podium today with a third position in the absence of tomorrow’s tests.

In ORC 2, Willy Alonso’s Movistar, from the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, remains at the forefront of the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy after another victory today. Yes, there were changes in second and third place, which were exchanged between Solventis, from Monte Real, skippered by Malalo Bermúdez, who came third on the first day and rose to second place overall; and Julio Rodríguez’s Starfighter, also from Monte Real, which holds the provisional bronze.

In the Gadis ORC 3 class, the Bunda, from the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña, signed a new victory this afternoon in Baiona, which distances it even further from its competitors. Tied on points in second and third position are Luis Manuel García Trigo’s Unus and Jean Claude Sarrade’s Fend la Bise, both with a Monte Real pendant.

Mariano Dios’s Aeris won the Coca Cola ORC 4 class, leaving provisional silver and bronze to Margem do Azul, owned by Frederico Lópes, from Monte Real Club de Yates; and to the crew of the Alabarellos, from Portonovo, skippered by Fernando Rey.

The ORC 4 completed a 16-mile journey from the interior of the bay to the Cíes Islands, passing through Carallones, La Negra, Bondaña, Salgueirón and Subrido, ending at the islet of Viños. Identical layout for Bel and Bel Open class, in which Vicente Cid’s Deep Blue, from Náutico de Vigo, won. In second and third position are the Pitoucho by José Carlos Ruiz from the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas and the villain by Luis Bodelón from the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña.

Coastal regatta also for the classics on its first day of competition, which began with little wind at first but increased in intensity as the test progressed. The Penguin Uno of Carlos Romero, the Belisa of José Manuel Cores and the Arosa of Oscar Ortega were the boats that managed to sneak into the provisional podium.

In the Solventis J80 class, the wind was more favorable than in other race courses and allowed the fleet to contest four races inside the bay. Pablo Martínez’s Marina Coruña, winner of the previous edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy in this category, managed to take first place today. He leads the provisional classification ahead of Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, from the Monte Real Club de Yates, and Guillermo Blanco’s Meltemi, from the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña.

In the HELLO! Ladies Cup the Catalans of ¡HOLA!, led by Elena Saez, ousted the Portuguese of Hello! Fashion Monthy from first place, leaving Marta Ramada and her crew with the provisional silver of the trophy. In third position are the women from Madrid led by Amparo Mollá, on board the Fashion ¡Hola!.

The Prince of Asturias Trophy ends tomorrow, Sunday, with the last tests of the competition in the morning and the awards ceremony for the winners in the afternoon. It will be held at the Monte Real Club de Yates facilities and will be presided over by King Juan Carlos.

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY CLASSIFICATION AFTER THE SECOND DAY

OPTICAL CLASS STUDIO ORC 1

1. APRIL OILS – LUIS AND JORGE PÉREZ CANAL – RCN VIGO
2. FIFTY BY STORAX – RUI RAMADA – MRCYB
3. MARNATURA PAIRO – LUIS BUGALLO – RCN VIGO

CLASS OILS APRIL ORC 2

1. MOVISTAR – WILLY ALONSO – RCN SANXENXO
2. SOLVENTIS – MALALO BERMÚDEZ – MRCYB
3. STARFIGHTER – JULIO RODRÍGUEZ – MRCYB

GADIS ORC 3 CLASS

1. BUNDA – JACOBO SOLORZANO – RCN CORUÑA
2. UNUS – LUIS MANUEL GARCIA – MRCYB
3. FEND LA BISE – JEAN CLAUDE SARRADE

COCA COLA ORC CLASS 4

1. AERIS – MARIANO DIOS – ROYACHTS CLUB
2. MARGEM DO AZUL – FREDERICO LOPES – MRCYB
3. ALBARELLOS – FERNANDO REY – PORTONOVO CN

BEL AND BEL OPEN CLASS

1. DEEP BLUE – VICENTE CID – RCN VIGO
2. PITOUCHO – JOSÉ CARLOS RUIZ – LM BOUZAS
3. VILLAIN – LUIS BODELON – RCN CORUÑA

STORAX CLASS 6M

1. ALIBABA II – MIGUEL LAGO – ROYAL THAMES YC
2. ERICA – VIOLETA ALVAREZ – ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON
3. GALLANT – HM KING JUAN CARLOS – RCN SANXENXO

CLASSIC VANGUARD CLASS

1. PENGUIN ONE – CARLOS ROMERO – CM CANIDO
2. BELISA – JOSÉ MANUEL CORES – AGABACE
3. AROSA – OSCAR ORTEGA – CR ARMADA

SOLVENTIS J80 CLASS

1. MARINA CORUÑA – PABLO MARTINEZ – RCN CORUÑA
2. OKOFEN – JAVIER DE LA GANDARA – MRCYB
3. MELTEMI – GUILLERMO BLANCO – RCN CORUÑA

¡HELLO! LADIES CUP

1. HELLO! – ELENA SAEZ – RCN BARCELONA
2. HELLO! FASHION MONTHLY – MARTA RAMADA – WE DO SAILING
3. FASHION HELLO! – AMPARO MOLLÁ – FEMAVE

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· The Monte Real Yacht Club hosted this Saturday the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards 2015 – 2016 award ceremony

· The Olympians Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos, the Paralympian Arturo Montes, the Canarian Rayco Tabares or ABANCA were some of the winners

· The winners took as a trophy a reproduction of the Monte Real signal mast that bears the name of its historic president Rafael Olmedo

Once again this year, the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne hosted the award ceremony for the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, awards that recognize the work carried out by different people, companies and institutions in favor of the world of sailing.

The Olympians Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos, world champions in the 49erFX class and Olympic diploma at the Rio 2016 Games, undoubtedly received the great ovation of the night. The Ourense and the Cantabrian received the award for the best female regatta team from the president of Bodegas Terras Gauda, José María Fonseca Moretón, and the president of the Monte Real Yacht Club, José Luis Álvarez, and received applause from the most than half a thousand attendees at the gala. They also brought their coach, Pepe Lis from Buenos Aires, to the stage, to whom they dedicated their award for being, they said, a fundamental part of the successes achieved.

Another of the Olympians awarded tonight in Baiona was Sevillian Arturo Montes, who was given the award for the best Paralympic athlete of the year. The sailor was unable to attend the gala because he was training in Rio, where he will compete in a few days in the 2.4mR class, and the president of the naval regatta commission of the Naval Military School of Marin, Vicente Rubio, presented him of the award to the delegate of the 2.4mR class, Luis de Mira, who collected it and thanked on behalf of Montes.

The Catalan shipowner, Rafael Carbonell, also passed the stage of the gala, receiving from the Mayor of Baiona, Ángel Rodal, and on behalf of his entire crew, the prize for the best boat, the Rats on Fire, winner of seven Trophies Conde de Godó and four King’s Cups, in addition to several Spanish and World Championships.

The vice president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, was in charge of awarding the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award to the best skipper, which went to Rayco Tabares. The Lanzarote native, barely 32 years old, wrote his name in the history of sailing in Spain in 2016, having won his third world championship in the J80 class.

ABANCA and MARCA were the two distinguished companies of the night. The Galician bank received the award for the best sponsor of the year for its commitment to grassroots sailing, through the support it provides to numerous sailing schools, clubs and organizations related to nautical activity. The director of ABANCA’s commercial network, Gabriel González, collected the award from the General Secretary for Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, José Ramón Lete.

The sports communication group MARCA, the undisputed leader of the sports press in Spain, won the Mariano Aguado Communication Award, which was collected by the deputy director of the newspaper, Gerardo Riquelme. This year’s Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards wanted to recognize the work of the Editorial Unit header to bring the competitions and all the latest sailing news to its more than two million three hundred thousand readers.

All the winners received as a trophy a reproduction of the signal mast of the Monte Real Yacht Club, which bears the name of the person who was president of the entity for more than forty years, Mr. Rafael Olmedo Limeses, who died in 2015 at the age of 99. age.

At the end of the National Sailing Awards ceremony, once again sponsored by Bodegas Terras Gauda, and after a seafood dinner at Monte Real, attendees were able to enjoy a party with fireworks.

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· The Arroutado de Portosín, the Movistar de Sanxenxo and the Bunda de A Coruña won the coastal regatta contested by the largest boats in the fleet

· The Pazo de Cea del Monte Real won the J80 one-design competition and We Do Sailing’s HELLO FASHION MONTHLY in the ¡HOLA! Ladies Cup

· The Prince of Asturias Trophy continues tomorrow with the presence of the King Juan Carlos I fleet that will sail with Pedro Campos in the Storax 6m class aboard the Gallant

Great opening day of the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which is being held these days in Baiona, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Naval Military School of Marín. Despite the weather forecasts, which announced a difficult day due to lack of wind, all the classes called for this first stage were able to compete in their tests and begin to outline the provisional podiums of the trophy.

On time according to schedule, the ORCs coastal regatta began, which took place with a west-southwesterly wind of about 6 knots on average. In the Optica Studio ORC 1 class, the winner on this first day was the Arroutado from the Real Club Náutico de Portosín, with the 49er Rio 2016 Olympian Iago López Marra among the crew. The sailboat skippered by José Manuel Pérez took just over an hour to complete the six and a half miles of coastal route, which the regatta committee was forced to shorten due to a calm wind recorded at the end of the race. In second place was the Aceites Abril de Luis and Jorge Pérez Canal, from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo; and in third, the Xekmatt of the Cascalense José Carlos Prista, of the Lisbon Naval Association.

In the Aceites Abril ORC 2 class, victory after today’s first race went to the Movistar of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, with Willy Alonso leading the crew in the absence of Pedro Campos, who will sail tomorrow with His Majesty King Juan Carlos in the Storax 6m class. In second and third position of the ORC 2, two boats from the Monte Real Club de Yates, the Starfighter of Julio Rodríguez and the Solventis skippered by Malalo Bermúdez.

In the Gadis ORC 3 class, the Real Club Náutico de Coruña placed its flag in the highest position. Jacobo Solorzano’s Bunda won the stage after completing the 6.56-mile route in two hours. Behind the people from Coruña, after the opening day, are Luis Suarez’s Maracaná I, from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo; and the Fend la Bise by Jean Claude Sarrade, from the Monte Real Club de Yates.

The Solventis J80 class monodesigns sailed this afternoon in the interior of the Bay of Baiona, in real-time competition. They left punctually according to the scheduled time and took part in two races with a constant west-northwesterly wind of about 7 knots on average. On the provisional podium, three boats from the Monte Real Club de Yates, the Pazo de Cea by María Campos, the Okofen by Javier de la Gándara and the Alumisel by Willy Caamaño.

In the same regatta field, with identical wind and sea conditions, the HELLO! Ladies Cup, which started just five minutes apart from the J80. After two races, the victory went to the Portuguese Marta Ramada, from the We Do Sailing club, aboard the HELLO FASHION MONTHLY. The HELLO! of the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona, skippered by Elena Saez, managed to place itself in second position and left third place for HELLO! by Conchi de Pedro, who competes for the Real Club de Regatas de Alicante.

After all the tests this Friday, the Prince of Asturias Trophy continues tomorrow Saturday with the second day and the entire fleet is already in the water. 80 boats and more than half a thousand sailors in competition will guarantee, if the wind allows it, the spectacle in the Vigo estuary.

Among them, King Juan Carlos I, who will sail in the Storax 6m class aboard the Gallant, one of the 5 sailboats built between 1929 and 1946 that participate in this thirty-first edition of the trophy.

Also making their debut tomorrow, together with the Storax 6m class, are the Coca Cola ORC 4 class boats, Bel and Bel Open and Vanguard Clásicos, in tests that will take place starting at noon in the bay of Baiona and the anchorage of the Islas Cies.

At night, the appointment is with the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, in a gala that will be held from eight in the afternoon at the Monte Real Yacht Club. At the end of it, the Baionese club has prepared a party for all the participants, which will include a fireworks display starting at eleven o’clock.

The Prince of Asturias Trophy will end on Sunday with the last day of tests and the awards ceremony for the winners, in a ceremony that will be presided over by King Emeritus Juan Carlos I.

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY CLASSIFICATION AFTER THE FIRST DAY

OPTICAL CLASS STUDIO ORC 1

1. ARROUTADO – JOSÉ MANUEL PÉREZ – RCN PORTOSÍN
2. APRIL OILS – LUIS AND JORGE PÉREZ CANAL – RCN VIGO
3. XEKMATT – JOSÉ CARLOS PRISTA – AN LISBOA

CLASS OILS APRIL ORC 2

1. MOVISTAR – WILLY ALONSO – RCN SANXENXO
2. STARFIGHTER – JULIO RODRÍGUEZ – MRCYB
3. SOLVENTIS – MALALO BERMÚDEZ – MRCYB

GADIS ORC 3 CLASS

1. BUNDA – JACOBO SOLORZANO – RCN CORUÑA
2. MARACANA I – LUIS SUÁREZ – RCN VIGO
3. FEND LA BISE – JEAN CLAUDE SARRADE – MRCYB

SOLVENTIS J80 CLASS

1. CEA MANOR – MARÍA CAMPOS – MRCYB
2. OKOFEN – JAVIER DE LA GANDARA – MRCYB
3. ALUMISEL – GUILLERMO CAAMAÑO – MRCYB

¡HELLO! LADIES CUP

1. HELLO! FASHION MONTHLY – MARTA RAMADA – WE DO SAILING
2. HELLO! – ELENA SAEZ – RCN BARCELONA
3. HELLO! – CONCHI DE PEDRO – RCR ALICANTE

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· The thirty-first edition of the competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín begins tomorrow, Friday afternoon

· His Majesty King Juan Carlos I will haggle over the weekend and will preside over the awards ceremony that will be held on Sunday at the Baionese club

Light wind weather forecasts will force the fleet of 80 boats in the competition to bring out their best tactics

Everything is ready in Baiona for the celebration of a new edition of the historic trophy of the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín. Organized without interruption since 1986, the Prince of Asturias Trophy celebrates thirty-one years in 2016 with a luxury guest on the water, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I, who will compete aboard the Gallant in the Storax 6m class.

The emeritus monarch’s boat will be one of the 80 sailboats that will take to the water this weekend to compete for victory in one of the most emblematic regattas in Galicia, which will be held once again in the Rías Baixas.

Along with him, some of the regulars in the Príncipe de Asturias such as Rui Ramada’s Fifty, who will try to achieve his fourth consecutive victory in the trophy in the Optica Studio ORC 1 class . The Portuguese crew will face a tough competitor, the also Portuguese Xekmatt of José Carlos Prista, recent winner of the Baiona Angra Atlantic Race.

Another of the classics at the Baiona nautical event, Pedro Campos’ Movistar, will compete in the Aceites Abril ORC 2 class skippered by Willy Alonso. Along with him will enter the competition, among others, the Bosch Service Solutions, with a crew of students from the Canido Maritime Club.

In this thirty-first edition of the Príncipe de Asturias, the three-time J80 world champion Rayco Tabares will also race in the Solventis J80 class , deserving in 2016 of one of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards for the best skipper of the year.

The classics in the Vanguard class , the Open in the Bel and Bel class , the ORC 3 in the Gadis class , the ORC 4 in the Coca Col a class and the figaros with female crews in the HELLO! Ladies Cup They will be other categories that we will be able to see in the three days that a competition that is announced to be complicated for the fleet will last. The weather forecasts indicate that there will be little wind, which will force the crews to bring out their best tactics.

The first tests will be tomorrow Friday from five to four in the afternoon. At that time there will be a first start for the largest boats, which must complete a coastal regatta; and a later start, half an hour later, for the J80s and figaros monotypes, with a program of windward/leeward routes.

The intention of the regatta committee, if the wind allows it, is to give all the starts inside the bay, so that the public that is located in the vicinity can enjoy the spectacle of the sailboats.

After the day on Friday, the competition will continue on Saturday with the entire fleet already in the water, after joining the Open, the Classics and the 6m, among which King Juan Carlos I will compete. That same day, at night, will hold the awards gala Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards , awards that distinguish those people and institutions that, throughout the year, worked to promote and promote the world of sailing from different fields.

On this occasion the winners are the Olympic athletes Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos , as the best women’s regatta team; the also olympic Arturo Montes , as the best Paralympic athlete of the year; the Rats on Fire , as Ship of the Year and the Canary Rayco Tabares as best skipper. ABANCA will receive the sponsor of the year award and MARCA the Mariano Aguado communication award.

The monarch emeritus will race this weekend in the 6m class aboard José Cusí’s Gallant, a 1947 sailboat considered a true jewel of the sea

· The trophy organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín will bring together more than 550 sailors and will include the competition ¡HELLO! Ladies Cup

· The Olympic athlete Támara Echegoyen will collect one of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards that will be delivered on Saturday in Baiona

King Juan Carlos I will participate this year in the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy, which will be held on September 2, 3 and 4 in the Vigo estuary and Bay of Baiona. The emeritus monarch will compete in the 6m class aboard the Gallant, owned by owner José Cusí, a 1947 sailboat considered by sailing enthusiasts to be a “true jewel of the sea”, with a track record that highlights a World Championship and a European Championship.

Don Juan Carlos will be accompanied by his friend and usual sailing companion, the Galician Pedro Campos, who will act as a tactician on board the boat. They will be two of the more than 550 sailors who are expected to compete this year in the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín with the sponsorship of Storax, Terras Gauda , HI THERE! and Galician Sports and the collaboration of the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation and the Galician Sailing Federation.

In the regatta program there are three days of tests, in which boats from different divisions of ORCs, classics, 6m and one-design J80s and Figaros will compete, the latter exclusively in the ¡HOLA! Ladies Cup. The first honk will be heard at five minutes to four on Friday the 2nd for the first race of the ORCs, a coastal one that will be held at the Cíes Islands anchorage. The J80s and the Figaros of the competition HELLO! Ladies Cup will sail inside the Bay of Baiona starting at twenty-five past four.

On Saturday, September 3, the Open, the Classics and the 6m will also take to the water, among which King Juan Carlos I will compete. His date on the water with a coastal regatta is from twelve twenty-five, half an hour after start the windward/leeward courses designed by the race committee for the ORCs, J80s and HELLO! Ladies Cup.

On Sunday the 4th, the last day of the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy, all the boats will compete at the same time, starting at five minutes to twelve. The awards ceremony for the winners, at six in the afternoon at the Monte Real Yacht Club, will put an end to a new edition of one of the most prestigious regattas on the Spanish nautical scene.

In 2016, the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy is also the Spanish Cruise Championship, the second round of the Xunta President Trophy, and the third and last round of the IV Atlantic Cruise Circuit. In Baiona, the Conde de Barcelona Trophy will also be awarded, which rewards the best Portuguese boat. This year, as a novelty, the special Mary Woodward award will also be given to the best boat in the J80 class.

In addition to the traditional sports events, the trophy will include other parallel activities such as breakfasts, radio programs, dinners, parties and even fireworks. An extensive program of events held thanks to the sponsorship of Storax, Terras Gauda, HELLO! and Galician Sport, and the collaboration of numerous firms such as Coca Cola, April Oils, Gadis and Solventis, among many others.

The Prince of Asturias Trophy was presented this morning at a press conference attended by the General Secretary for Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, José Ramón Lete; the President of the Naval Regatta Commission of the Naval Military School of Marín, Vicente Rubio; the General Director of Bodegas Terras Gauda, Enrique Costas; the Councilor for Sports of Baiona, María Jesús Martíns; and the President of the Galician Sailing Federation, Manuel Villaverde.

The competition HELLO! Ladies Cup will bring together the best female crews in Baiona

The competition HELLO! Ladies Cup 2016 is an exclusively female regatta that will bring together in Galician waters the best patron saints from Spain and Portugal, who will compete during the Prince of Asturias Trophy under equal conditions, with crews with the same number of sailors and in 6 identical one-design boats, of the Beneteau First Fígaro type, owned by Monte Real.

Among the participants will be Amparo Mollá and Nada Pahor, from the Madrid Sailing Federation; Conchi de Pedro, from the Real Club de Regatas de Alicante; Paloma Gil, from the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona, the Portuguese Marta Ramada, with the BBDouro We Do Sailing team; and Genoveva Pereiro leading the women’s team of the Monte Real Club de Yates.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, an appointment with the best of nautical

Coinciding with the Prince of Asturias Trophy, the Monte Real Yacht Club will host, on the night of Saturday, September 3, the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards ceremony, awards that distinguish those people and institutions that , throughout the year, worked to promote and promote the world of sailing from different areas.

On this occasion, the winners are the Olympic athletes Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos, as the best women’s regatta team; the also Olympian Arturo Montes, as the best Paralympic athlete of the year; the Rats on Fire, as boat of the year and the canary Rayco Tabares as best skipper. ABANCA will receive the sponsor of the year award and MARCA the Mariano Aguado communication award.

An integrating boat for people with disabilities

For the second consecutive year, a team made up of people with some type of disability will participate in the Prince of Asturias Trophy. On this occasion they are a group of students from the Juan María de Nigrán Center for people with intellectual disabilities, who will sail in the regattas scheduled for the Open class aboard a boat provided by the Monte Real Yacht Club.

It is an initiative with which the Baiona club intends to continue with the integration work that, throughout the year, it develops through its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities, in which hundreds of people with disabilities have already sailed. disability throughout Galicia.

· The leading newspaper in Spain has been recognized for the dissemination it carries out throughout the year of the main nautical activities that take place in our country

The Unidad Editorial sports header will receive the Mariano Aguado Communication Award, one of the distinctions of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards

· The awards will be presented next Saturday, September 3 at a gala at the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona, coinciding with the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy

The newspaper MARCA has been honored with the Mariano Aguado Communication Award from the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards for the dissemination it carries out throughout the year of the main nautical activities that take place in Spain.

The jury that awards the awards wanted to recognize the work of the Unidad Editorial sports magazine to bring the competitions and all current sailing news to its more than two million three hundred thousand readers, according to data from the last EGM. They have also valued the long history of the newspaper, which since 1938 writes the history of Spanish sport.

Leader of the sports press in Spain, MARCA complements its dissemination of sailing news on paper, with broadcasts, since 2001, of Radio MARCA, from which it reaches more than four hundred twenty-three thousand listeners daily. A figure to which we must add the eleven million daily readers of its digital newspaper.

On September 3, those responsible for the newspaper will collect the Mariano Aguado Communication Award at the National Sailing Awards gala that will take place at the Monte Real Yacht Club in Bayonne, coinciding with the celebration of the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy.

Together with MARCA, this year Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos will receive the rest of the awards as the best women’s regatta team and the also Olympian Arturo Montes as Paralympic athlete of the year. Rayco Tabares will collect the prize for the best skipper, the Rats on Fire for the best boat and ABANCA for the sponsor of the year.

The Galician and Cantabrian sailors will be honored for their spectacular career in the 49er women’s class, in which they are world champions and have an Olympic diploma

· This is the third Terras Gauda National Sailing Award received by Támara Echegoyen from Ourense after being recognized as navigator and best pre-Olympic team in 2011 and 2012

· The awards will be delivered on September 3 at eight in the afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona, coinciding with the Prince of Asturias Trophy

The athletes Támara Echegoyen (Ourense, 1984) and Berta Betanzos (Santander, 1988) will receive this year the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best female regatta team after their spectacular career in the 49erFX class, of which they are world champions and in which they have achieved an Olympic diploma at the Rio 2016 Games.

The evolution of the Galician-Cantabrian tandem since the team was formed four years ago has always been upward and plagued with success. In 2014 they were eighth in the world championship, in 2015 they managed to climb to sixth place, and this year, in addition to the bronze in the European, they finished first in the waters of Clearwater (United States), taking the world championship and setting sail Spanish on everyone’s lips.

This is how they reached the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where they finally stayed at the gates of the medal table, with a fourth place in the general behind the Brazilians, New Zealanders and Danes, who shared the metals. Támara and Berta brought home an Olympic diploma and the admiration of thousands of fans around the world, who have been able to recognize the great work of these two athletes and also of their coach, Pepe Lis from Buenos Aires.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best female regatta team is the last –until now- of the awards given to the Echegoyen-Betanzos duo. They will pick him up next Saturday, September 3 at eight in the afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates, in a gala that will be held to coincide with the Prince of Asturias Trophy.

For Támara Echegoyen, 32, from Ourense, this will be her third National Sailing Award, after those collected in 2011 together with Sofía Toro and Ángela Pumariega as the best pre-Olympic team of the year; and in 2012 as sailor of the year.

The Sevillian sailor from the Real Club Marítimo de Punta Umbría has been distinguished with the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best Paralympic athlete of the year

· Montes is the current champion of Spain in the 2.4 mR and the head of the Spanish team in this class that will compete next September at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

· The sailor reaches the top of the Paralympic sport five years after a serious accident that left him in a coma for a month and caused him to lose a leg

· In addition to his sporting merits, he received the award for his work to promote the sport of sailing among people with disabilities through the IN Association

The Sevillian sailor Arturo Montes will receive this year the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best Paralympic athlete of the year after becoming the Spanish 2.4mR champion and becoming the head of the Spanish team in this class that will compete next September at the Games Rio 2016 Paralympics.

The athlete from the Real Club Marítimo y Tenis de Punta Umbría reaches the top of Paralympic sailing five years after being run over by a boat while swimming in the Portuguese Algarve, a serious accident that left him in a coma for a month and caused him to die. loss of a leg.

After a long and hard recovery, Montes returned to a sport with which he had already won the Copa del Rey and participated in the Barcelona World Race, but in a new class, the 2.4mR, to which he had to adapt. Little by little the victories followed one another and in this 2016, the Sevillian managed to fulfill one of his dreams, that of attending the Olympic Games representing a class that, for the first time, is not going as a guest, but on its own merits.

It has been a year, says Montes, “of many joys, but also of a lot of work and sacrifice , with very intense training in the high performance center of Puerto de Santa María, where I had to go 3 or 4 times a week driving for over an hour ”. Participation in the Olympic Games and the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award “are an impulse -he assures- to continue sailing and training with even more enthusiasm, and to encourage other people with disabilities to practice sport”.

Precisely his work to promote the sport of sailing among people with disabilities is another of the reasons that the jury of the National Sailing Awards has taken into account when awarding him the award. Arturo Montes founded the IN Association years ago to promote adapted sports, from which all kinds of people with different disabilities can approach and practice different sports, and even train to compete at the highest level.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented on September 3 at the Monte Real Yacht Club in Bayonne, in a gala that Arturo Montes will not be able to attend because he will already be in Rio preparing to compete. The president of the Spanish Association of the 2.4mR class, Teresa Silva, will collect the award on her behalf.

· Thousands of children have been able to start practicing water sports thanks to the support that ABANCA provides to numerous sailing schools, clubs, organizations and companies

· The promotion of sailing among the youngest has been for years one of the fundamental axes of the sponsorship strategy of the bank based in Galicia

· Directors of ABANCA will collect the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best sponsor of the year on September 3 at the Monte Real Yacht Club

ABANCA has been distinguished this year with the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best sponsor for its commitment to grassroots sailing through the support it provides to numerous sailing schools, clubs, organizations and companies related to nautical activity.

With this award, the jury that awards the awards wanted to recognize the work that the Galicia-based bank carries out to promote sailing and allow thousands of children to start practicing this sport every year.

As its original entities did for decades, ABANCA maintains a close relationship with sailing in all its aspects, based, according to the entity, on its educational, sporting and economic values.

In addition to supporting basic sailing, in the competitive section, ABANCA also supports sailing adapted for people with disabilities and the celebration in Galician waters of multiple regattas of different classes and levels, such as the ABANCA Sailing & Rowing Week, which in the 2015 edition achieved the distinction of Best Dinghy Sailing Regatta in Spain, or the Infanta Elena Regatta.

Likewise, ABANCA supports, from its function as a financial entity, different business projects related to the nautical sector, considering it an economic activity with great potential for generating employment and wealth.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented on September 3 in Baiona, coinciding with the celebration of the Prince of Asturias Trophy of the Monte Real Yacht Club. ABANCA executives have already confirmed their attendance to collect the entity’s award for the best sponsor of the year.

· An agreement signed with the Xeral Secretariat for Sport will allow the Baiona club to consolidate and expand the activities of its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities

· Monte Real is the only club in Galicia that currently promotes this type of initiative at a supra-municipal level and seeks the full integration of the participants

· For the second consecutive year, a group of students from the club with different disabilities will sail under equal conditions in the Prince of Asturias Trophy that will be held next September

The Xunta de Galicia and the Monte Real Yacht Club will collaborate one more year to promote adapted sailing in Galicia. They will do so thanks to an agreement signed this morning between the Xeral Secretariat for Sports and the Baiona club, which provides for the expansion of the activities of its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.

Currently, Monte Real is the only club in Galicia that organizes initiatives of this type at a supra-municipal level and seeks the full integration of the participants, among whom there are people with all kinds of disabilities, both physical and psychosocial, cognitive and sensory. . The club’s Adapted Sailing School is also the only one in the north of the peninsula that operates throughout the year.

At the signing of the agreement, the General Secretary for Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, José Ramón Lete, highlighted the fact that some of the school’s students will participate, for the second consecutive year, in the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which shows, he said, that total integration is one of the objectives of the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School.

From the Baionese club, both its president, José Luis Álvarez, and its vice president, Alejandro Retolaza, thanked the Xunta de Galicia for its support in continuing to bring the sea closer to people with disabilities and allowing all those who wish to sail with equal terms.

This was transmitted to the provincial head of the sports service of the Xunta de Galicia, Daniel Benavides, also present at the signing of the agreement. They also reminded him that on September 10 they will organize a new edition of the Vertiathlon, a solidarity triathlon with which they will raise funds for the club’s Adapted Sailing School.

Armed by the Catalan Rafael Carbonell, Rats on Fire has been one of the most outstanding references in cruise sailing for years after winning seven Conde de Godó Trophies and four Copas del Rey in addition to several Spanish and world championships.

· The very young Canarian skipper Rayco Tabares wrote his name this year in the history of sailing in Spain by having won his third world championship in the J80 class at just 32 years of age, a milestone that no other skipper had achieved so far

· The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented on Saturday, September 3 in Baiona as part of the celebration of the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club

The Rats on Fire of the Catalan owner Rafael Carbonell and the Canarian sailor Rayco Tabares will be recognized next September in Baiona with the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards for the best boat and skipper of the year.

The prestigious awards, which the Monte Real Yacht Club has been handing out for 24 years, coinciding with the celebration of its historic The Prince of Asturias Trophy distinguishes those people and institutions that throughout the year stood out for their human and sporting values, as well as for their work in favor of the world of sailing.

In the case of Rats on Fire, the boat has been, for years, one of the most prominent references in cruising sailing, having won seven Conde de Godó Trophies and four Copas del Rey, in addition to several Spanish and world championships. .

At the head of this Swan 45 from the Club Náutico de Arenys de Mar is Rafael Carbonell, a Catalan shipowner who has been linked to the sea for more than half his life, with whom he admits he is in love. He says that he started sailing late, but that he knew how to surround himself with the best and was able to learn everything they were teaching him.

In 2007 he decided to take over the Rats on Fire and since then he has done nothing but reap success. “When we won the first Copa del Rey, we hardly believed it,” he says. and from then on other regattas and other victories have followed one another. We always put the maximum in the preparation of the boat and each test, and it seems that we do not do badly at all “.

Carbonell shows himself, always modestly, proud of his triumphs but, above all, of his crew, of whom he speaks wonders. He says that more than a team, they are already a family, “the Rats family” , and that part of the success they have achieved so far is due to the good relationship that exists between all of them, since they enjoy what they do enormously.

An outstanding member of that crew is Rayco Tabares, from the Canary Islands, who will receive the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best skipper. In 2016, the man from Lanzarote wrote his name in the history of sailing in Spain having achieved, at just 32 years of age, his third world championship in the J80 class, a milestone that no one had achieved so far.

Since he started sailing in Optimist at the age of 6, Tabares has touched practically all the clubs. He has sailed in Cadet, in Snipe, he has directed a 470 Olympic project, he has reached the top in J80 and, while he already thinks about sailing in new classes, he continues to score victories with great boats like Rats on Fire, with which he has won various Count of Godó and Copas del Rey.

This sailor, skipper, tactician and coach now also adds a new distinction to his resume as an athlete, the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best skipper of the year, which he will collect on 3 September in Baiona as part of the celebration of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, in which he plans to sail.

24 years rewarding the best in the sailing world

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards are one of the most prestigious awards on the Spanish nautical scene. For 24 years, the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne has delivered them to those people and institutions that stand out for their human and sporting values, as well as for their work in favor of the world of sailing.

In the last edition, Chuny Bermúdez was awarded as the best ocean sailor and Álex Pella as the best solo ocean sailor. Astilleros Lago received an honorary award as pioneer of the Spanish nautical industry and Fundación Repsol was distinguished as the best sponsor of the year.

The Mariano Aguado communication award went to Juan Pablo Cadario, for his blog JuanpaNews; and Fifty, Movistar and Solventis won the prizes for the best boats in the ORC 0-1, ORC 2-3 and amateur team categories, respectively.

( Photos: 1 © Nico Martinez / 2 © Alfred Farré / 3 © María Muíña / 4 © María Muíña )

· On September 2, 3 and 4, the thirty-first edition of one of the most important nautical competitions in Spain is celebrated in Galicia

· The Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne and the Military Naval Commission of Marin have just opened the registration period for crews who want to participate

In addition to the sporting events, the Prince of Asturias Trophy will include numerous parallel activities such as the delivery of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards

The countdown begins for the celebration of one of the most important nautical competitions in Spain, the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which in 2016 celebrates its thirty-first edition organized, once again, by the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Naval Commission Marine Military.

The trophy will be held on September 2, 3 and 4, and the registration period has just opened for those crews who want to participate. They will be able to compete in it ORC cruisers, J80 and Figaros monotypes, classics and 6m.

The 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy will include the HELLO! Ladies Cup, which will bring together the best female cruising sailing crews. It will also qualify for the Spanish Cruise Championship ORC Zona Galicia, and score points for the IV Atlantic Cruise Circuit and the President Trophy of the Xunta de Galicia. It will also reward the best Portuguese crew in the Conde de Barcelona Trophy.

As in previous editions, the Prince of Asturias Trophy will include, in addition to the classic nautical events, numerous parallel activities, such as the delivery of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, breakfasts, parties and fireworks.

Crews who wish to participate in the great sporting event of the Monte Real Yacht Club will be able to find all the information on its website and formalize their registration starting today. For those who register before August 28 there will be significant discounts.

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