The German Gunnar Biniasch maintains the good run of results that he has been cultivating all year, placing first in the provisional classification of the main category on the first day of the Baleària WFSS 2022 Tarifa. On the other hand, the WetSuitCare Open Advanced class, the Spaniard David José Pérez finished the day in provisional first place, as did the also Spaniard, Adrián Albiñana, who with the results signed on this first day already secures the podium in the Levitaz Open class. Amateur.
At half past eleven in the morning the presentation of the event was held at the Carbones 13 beach bar on Los Lances beach in Tarifa, where Francisco Ruiz Giráldez, mayor of Tarifa, accompanied by Lucía Trujillo and Kiki Araujo, councilors of tourism and sports respectively , commented “We are very pleased to be able to host for the first time one of the stops on the national wing foil circuit in the “race” modality. A new modality that is constantly growing and that has more and more followers on our beaches. For us, Bringing events related to sliding water sports such as the wing foil closer is fully aligned with our sports tourism promotion strategies, and we will continue betting that events of the caliber of the Wing Foil Spain Series, which attract the highest level sailors in Europe to our beaches, continue to be based in Tarifa”.
A little later, around two in the afternoon, with a poniente of between ten and fourteen knots, the Principal Regatta Officer Antonio Ordovas raised the Delta flag thus indicating to the fleet that the first day of the Baleària WFSS 2022 Tarifa had begun. .
On the regatta field, the German Gunnar Biniasch once again showed off his skill with the wing foil by crossing the finish line in first place in the first two races of the day, after which the intensity of the wind decreased and the regatta committee indicated sailors to return to the beach to wait for the wind to freshen up.
Soon after, the fleet was able to get back on the water and contest two more races before calling it a day. An error in the third round penalized Biniasch with eleven points, but thanks to the fact that in the next test he came first again and that misstep could be ruled out of the score, the German finished the day in a provisional first place in the queen category of the circuit. Together with him, Pedro Simó, from Alicante, signed a second place in the classification with two seconds and two thirds in the day’s tests and while the young Hugo Ferrer closed the provisional podium with a third place.
Arriving at the beach, the young Hugo Ferrer, from the Real Club Náutico de Calpe, commented: “It is the first time that I come to Tarifa, it is a very beautiful place and very good to navigate. The day went quite well, with little wind and we had to get out of the water once, but we were able to reach the minimum tests necessary to apply a discard. I am very happy with my results and I hope to be able to maintain my position and even improve it tomorrow.”
On the other hand, in the WetSuitCare Open Advanced class the undisputed leader was David Jose Pérez who, after not starting in the first test, signed a second and two first. The Belgian Pierre de Groodt and the Spanish Pedro Jimenez closed the provisional podium of the category with a second and third respectively.
Finally, Adría Albiñana with four first places was placed at the head of the classification of the Levitaz Amateur category, securing the podium with one day of competition remaining.
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