Jordi Xammar there is a thorn and it is nothing but the winning of 470 World Championship in the absolute category. He did it in the youth category with Joan Herp -his partner at Rio 2016- in 2013 and 2014, but he was completely against her. With Nico Rodríguez -his partner in bronze at Tokyo 2020- he is silver in 2019 in Enoshima (Japan) and the Last year in the 470 Mixed with Nora Brugman she repeated the silver in Sdot Yam (Israel)and now the Catalan crew once again had to live in world silver, in this case in The Hague (Netherlands).
This year, Xammar wanted to get their world gold, but the Japanese Keiju Okada and Miho Yoshika soon showed that they are the best and they will not let anyone take the top metal from them, where the couple Xammar/Brugman and the rest, they have no choice but to fight for two more podium places.
The Spanish men, who have had ups and downs throughout the championship, maintain a particular rivalry in Silvia Mas and Nico Rodriguez -who finished eleventh-, produced a brilliant final World Cup sailing to finish securing silver in medal race perfectly controls his rivals. The bronze went to Japan’s Tetsuya Izosaki and Yurie Seki.
With second place for Xammar and Brugman, Spain has secured its Olympic place for Paris 2024.
This Friday is the turn of the 49er Medal Race where Diego Botin and Florian Trittel They will also fight for silver, the place they will start in the final, when the gold has already been awarded to the Dutch Bart Lambriex and Floris Van De Berken.
In the remaining classes still competing, Joaquín Blanco in ILCA 7 continues to climb the positions and you are in eighth with two sleeves left and the Medal Race. If this development continues, all the numbers are in the canary to get the place, as the first 16 countries are classified in this class.
In iQfoil, Nacho Baltasar lost the privileged fourth place and eleventh, just like Pilar Lamadrid among the women.
Source: La Verdad
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