Tmara Echegoyen and Paula Barcel, 49er FX world champions five months after the Games

The Spanish sailors Tmara Echegoyen and Paula Barcel They have proclaimed this Saturday world champions of the 49er FX class on the last day of the 49er FX, 49er and Nacra 17 World Championships, which have been held in Geelong (Australia), while Diego Botn and Iago Lpez Marra they have hung the silver medal in 49er.

On a day with winds of up to 20 knots and in which two fleet races were held for each class before the Medal Race, the crew formed by the sailors Movistar Echegoyen and Barcel resisted the pressure of reaching the final race in the first position only one point of the British Dobson and Tidey. The Galician and the Balearic remained ahead in the last section of the test, in which the British overturned. In this way, Echegoyen adds its second world title -after the one achieved in Clearwater (United States) in 2016-, while Barcel debuts as champion.

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For its part, the Grancanaria Patricia Cantero and Madrid's Nicole van der Velden (Profand Group) failed to reach the Medal Race and finished the day with a 2-1 that allowed them to ascend from 24 to 14 position.

Echegoyen stressed that it has been “a superreido championship”. “We have had to do our best. We must congratulate the English crew of Charlote and Saskia, who has done a formidable job and until the last moment we did not know who was going to win. I want to take the opportunity to to thank our great team, because this would not have been possible without all of them, “he said. Paula Barcel showed the same emotion after the victory. “Thank you very much for all the support received from home, for all the equipment behind us and that has taken care of us this week. We are very happy to continue working,” he said.

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In 49er, the Diego Diego Botn and the Galician Iago Lpez Marra (Quirn Salud) rose from third to second place before the Medal Race, where they fought with Austrians and Germans for the silver medal, which finally hung up. Botn highlighted his joy for the second position, only behind the New Zealanders Peter Burling and Blair Tuke. “We are very, very happy. It is the best result we have had since Iago and I navigated together and the most important title we have achieved; also It gives us great confidence about the work we have been doing and our performance towards the Tokyo Olympics“he pointed out.

Meanwhile, Lpez Marra said the race had been “incredible.” “Our best result and in the Olympic year, with all the crews at full capacity, just a few months after the Olympic Games. Now we have to continue working hard, we will train with the German team – with which we have a great relationship – and with which we make a good tndem to train at the highest level, “he said.

The Nacra 17 were responsible for premiering the finals, and before the Grancanaria Tara Pacheco and the barcelons Florian Trittel they achieved a quarter and a fifth place in the last fleet races. In the Medal Race, finally, they signed a sixth that earned them to qualify in sixth position of the general. Gold went to the British John Gimson and Anna Burnet.