The Olympic candle returns from Friday to Marina Rubicón, with the Fifth edition of the Lanzarote International Regattaa test that was born in the middle of the pandemic and that has managed to consolidate as the opening appointment of the athlend of athletes from all over the world. In this edition they compete up to four Olympic classes -49er, 470 mixed, Ilca 6 and Ilca 7- and, as a novelty, there will also be a place for the light candle, with the snipe as a guest class.
Class 49er It will be the first to go on stage, giving the starting gun to this fifth edition. The 49er regattas will begin tomorrow Saturday 15 and will end on Tuesday 18, with the first champions of the Lanzarote International Regatta in the new Olympic cycle.
With crews from Greece, Holland, the United States and the Netherlands, the Spaniards of the pre -Olympic team Martín and Jaime Wizner (Galicia), Conrad Konitzer (Baleares) and Antonio Torrado (Valencian Community) and Pol Marsans (Catalonia) and Pablo Llorens ( Galicia).
From Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 we will see in two fields of regattas to the 470 mixed, ilca 6 and ilca 7. All of them will play a maximum of 10 regattas plus the Medal Race, which will only access the ten best crews. The weekend, the snipe will be added.
The mixed class 470 premiered as an Olympic modality in Paris 2024 and repeats for the third consecutive year in the Lanzarote International Regatta. The participation of a New crew in the class that occurs with aspirations to represent Spain in Los Angeles 2028the one formed by the Catalan Silvia morewho comes from participating in the Copa América Muemina, and the Mallorcan Alex Marsans.
They navigate together since December and have not wanted to miss the opportunity to add navigation hours in the large range of conditions that Lanzarote provides to any water athlete: «We are here January and February, because we consider Lanzarote the best place in terms of training quality : There is sun, heat, we can do many hours in the water and there are also all kinds of wind, both strong and lazy, and it depends on which area you leave more or less wave. I think it is the most complete site of all to train and make a good preseason, ”says Silvia Mas.
«I was considering not returning to 470 and after the Copa América in Barcelona, that Alex was part of the land team, he raised to do the project and saw that he could work. This year for me is to return to the ringwhich had been in class for a year and a half, and for him it is a new class, but the long -term objective is Los Angeles 2028, ”he emphasizes.
Ilca 7, the former male laser, will be the most large class with crews of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ireland, Montenegro, Monaco, Holland, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Spain, with Canaries Pablo García and Samuel Jay. In Ilca 6, female class, we will see the Canarian Tara Pacheco in a very small fleet.
«This regatta is a unique opportunity for the best athletes to measure their forces in this Start of the new Olympic cycle», Said Marina Rubicón, Rafael Lasso. “The goal is to consolidate Lanzarote as a center of excellence for the world candle,” he added.
According to the report prepared by the consultant Auditax, the Lanzarote International Regatta generated in 2024 an economic impact of 37.4 million euros. This international event organized by Marina Rubicón has the sponsorship of Tourism Lanzarote through its sports tourist product «Lanzarote Sports Destination», Cabildo de Lanzarote through the Insular Sports Service, the art, culture and tourism centers of the Cabildo de Lanzarote and the City of Yaiza; and the collaboration, among others, of the Canarian Federation of Vela, the Latin candle and Dinghycoach federations.
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