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The Andalusian José Medel has been proclaimed winner of the Optimist Excellence Cup Trophy, after this Tuesday the wind conditions have allowed to recover the time and celebrate three tests. The CN Puerto Sherry sailor beats the sailor of the Real Club de Regatas de Alicante, Eugenio Ribelles, by four points, who in turn takes out two from the RCN de Adra sailor, José Manuel Cuellar, third. From less to more in this decisive day, Medel wins with a 3rd, a 2nd and a 1st and uses his best knowledge of the environment to put that plus that has favored him in the search for a difficult objective due to the variable conditions of the wind and the strong current in the bay of Cadiz.
At the gates of the absolute podium, tied with Cuellar from Almeria, is Sergio Mancera, from CDN Punta Umbría, winner of the third round in his group, followed with four more points by Daniel de la Serna from CNM Benalmádena and Adriana Serra from RCMT Punta Umbría, tied for fifth and sixth, respectively, followed by one point and also tied by Portuguese Tiago Santos and Nacho Fernández from CN Puerto Sherry, seventh and eighth, respectively. The top 10 of the Excellence Cup Trophy are completed by Guilherme Morais from Portugal and Joaquín Valero from Alicante, ninth and tenth in this order. Equality marks the classification in the high part and says a lot about the level and spirit of improvement shown by the applicants.
Resolved the victories Sub 16 of the 8th Regatta Ciudad del Puerto at the hands of José Medel and Adriana Serra, the good performance of Jose Manuel Cuellar from Almeria, which has led him to occupy the third absolute position, is worth to proclaim himself the winner of the Sub 13, escorted in the podium by Felipe Pachón, from CNM Benalmádena, and the Portuguese Vicente Costa, fifteenth and twenty-second overall, respectively. The Under 13 winner is Mar Infante, followed by Reyes García and Begoña Cañizares, the three belonging to the RCMT Punta Umbría regatta team.
The women’s Under 16 podium is completed after Serra, with Mercedes Medel from CN Sevilla and the Portuguese Mariana Pinto, and among the smallest – Sub 11 category – the winners are the Galician Pablo Gago and the CN Sevilla sailor María de las Mercedes Medel .
After two blank days due to the calm, today was a day marked by winds that were rising from 7 knots of intensity in the first test to 11/12 of the second and third, moving from 290º to 320º. The regatta committee started a fourth test that would have allowed it to be discarded, but before the arrival of the first group at mark number 1 of the course, the wind was moving at 330º and was climbing at 20 knots, which advised to cancel and send the fleet to land. In any case, everything possible has been done to achieve a quick and profitable day, which leaves the hosts and the sailors who have traveled from afar with a good taste in order not to miss a regatta that has brought together around 150 sailors from eight autonomous communities and four countries.
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