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Euromarina Optimist Torrevieja at Real Club Náutico de Torrevieja - Day 3

by Prensa Sailing Comunicación 1 Feb 20:07 GMT 30 January - 2 February 2025

The Euromarina Optimist Torrevieja Trophy faces its final stretch. Today was the third day, the first of the final round with good wind conditions, in general, which has allowed three races for the Gold, Silver and Bronze groups, while Perla has completed only two.

The general standings have taken an important turn in the Gold group, after this first round, in which there has been a dance in the positions. Until today it was the Canarian and reigning world champion, Marta Mansito-Valverde (RCN Gran Canaria) who held the number 1 position in the table, but she has given way and that has been as a result of the last two partials of the day: 7-48, in the first one she kept the type with a brilliant and hard-worked second place. Some numbers that make her drop to 4th in the overall absolute, although she maintains the first place in women and with an important cushion on the following sailors.

The overall lead in the men's category is taken by the Catalan Juan Lleonart (CN El Balís) with 28 points. Lleonart sealed a 10th place in the first race of the day, improving in the second with a 2nd place, but in the third race he fell to 39th place, a result that he would take away and mercede to the previous partials of 2-7-3-4 allows him to reach the last day leader with a small margin of 6 points over the second.

Oliver Iglesias (CN Port d'Andratx), second in the table with 34 points has also suffered a puncture, being in the second race in which he achieved his worst partial in Torrevieja with a 33. With 9 points behind Iglesias is another Spaniard: Alejandro Valero (RCR Alicante) who also and like the other two above has not been successful in one of the three races. The Spaniard was no better than 27th in the second race, in the other two he closed with 8-4.

There is maximum equality among the protagonists to be in the first three-piece podium. Lleonart has 28, Iglesias 34 and Valero 43 but... Sweden's Alexander Forssén is fifth with 44, the same as the female Mansito-Valverde. Behind and with some options are the Turkish Mehmet Erkut Budak (Sopraventus Team- Istanbul SC) and Peruvian 10th of the World: Joaquin Acevedo (Team Happy) with 50 points, occupying places 6 and 7 respectively.

Izan Rogel (RCN Torrevieja), who has scored a partial victory today in the first race of the day, together with the French Lilou Backes (YCPR Sopraventus) lead the SUB13 fleet.

Tomorrow, Sunday 2nd February, the XVII Euromarina Optimist Torrevieja closes with the new champions. Three races are scheduled in the programme, with the start of the first one at 10.00 am.

More information on the event website.

About Euromarina - Main sponsor

The main sponsor of the international Optimist event in Torrevieja is a family business in the construction industry. Founded in 1972, its main market is international, building all over the Spanish Levante, both in the province of Alicante, with various locations such as Guardamar, Arenales, Ciudad Quesada, Torrevieja, as well as other projects in the Region of Murcia, mainly in La Manga del Mar Menor and Los Alcázares.

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