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Atando Cabos is recognized with the Mariano Aguado Communication Award

 

· The nautical outreach program of the production company TacTic Audiovisual will receive the Mariano Aguado Communication Award this year at the National Sailing Awards gala to be held in Baiona on September 3

· Since its creation at the end of 2018, 126 24-minute programs have been broadcast that have been seen on different television channels such as the Nautical Channel and video portals such as YouTube

· Combining dissemination of competitions, news and events with interviews and entertainment is the main objective of a space in which sailing and power boating are protagonists

The program Atando Cabos from the production company TacTic Audiovisual has been recognized this year with the Mariano Aguado Communication Award, an award that will be presented on September 3 in Baiona as part of the National Sailing Awards gala.

Since its creation at the end of 2018, this audiovisual production has already gone through four seasons, in which 126 24-minute programs have been broadcast. A content that has been seen on different television channels such as the Nautical Channel, video portals such as YouTube, and specialized websites and blogs.

Combining the dissemination of competitions, news and events with interviews and entertainment is the main objective of a television format divided into four sections. While “A todo trapo” focuses on current events in regattas, in “As de guided” the protagonists are the interviews with current personalities. The main sectoral novelties are included in the space “To the four winds” and “La mar de a gusto” is dedicated to the nautical lifestyle, sustainability, tourism and gastronomy.

Conceived and directed by Vicente Robles and co-directed and presented by Nerea Ruiz; Also part of the Tying Cabos team are Javier Gallen and Manuel Llario (editors), Marian Hinojosa (writing and production), José Pablo Sánchez Luna, Jesús Prats and José Javier Jiménez (cameras) and Carlos Berdonce, Ygor Buesta, Lucas Mahillo, Santiago Pereira and Agustín Ramos (business support).

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National Sailing Award for the world champions María Perelló and Marta Cardona

 

· The two-time world champions María Perelló and Marta Cardona will be distinguished next September 3 in Galicia with the National Sailing Award for the best light sailing crew

· After a successful stint in the Optimist class, these 17-year-old Majorcans from the Club Nàutic s’Arenal achieved the double (gold in the World Cup and in the European) in their first year competing together in the 420 class

· The National Sailing Awards gala will be held in Baiona under the organization of the Monte Real Yacht Club and sponsored by the Terras Gauda wineries

Perello and Cardona at the top of the podium – Photo Sailing Energy

The two-time world champions María Perelló and Marta Cardona will receive, on September 3 in Galicia, the National Sailing Award for the best light sailing crew.

At just 17 years old, the Majorcans will be distinguished for the successes obtained in 2021, their first year competing together, in which they managed to hang the World and European gold medals in the 420 class around their necks.
They were the first joint triumphs of a crew that a year later, in this 2022, continued to fight and was proclaimed champion of the Youth Sailing World Championship, the youth sailing world championship; and runner-up in the world of 420.

Perello and Cardona celebrating the success of the world championship – Photo Sailing Energy

“Receiving the National Sailing Award is the finishing touch to a great year and an honor,” says María Perelló, who sees the award as “A recognition of the effort and dedication, not only mine -he says- but also of the entire team that has helped and accompanied me during these years”.

A few years in which this young sailor managed to make history in the Optimist class, by proclaiming herself world champion for three consecutive years, setting a record not achieved by any woman so far.

And so, being a three-time world champion, Perelló decided to say goodbye to the boat with which she began to love the world of sailing and make the leap to the 420 with her friend Marta Cardona, whose Optimist was already beginning to it was small. Together they began to work on their new positions and responsibilities, and to think as a team, and the results were not long in coming.

“Sailing with María, who as well as being a companion is a friend, and achieving everything we have achieved together, is a dream from which I don’t want to wake up” acknowledges Marta Cardona. “The National Sailing Award is a new motivation to continue working towards reaching new goals”.

Perello and Cardona in regatta – Photo Sailing Energy

Perelló and Cardona will receive the award that recognizes them as the best light sailing crew on September 3 in Baiona (Galicia), within the framework of the National Sailing Awards gala, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club with the sponsorship from Bodegas Terras Gauda.

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Pichu Torcida, sailor of the year

 

· José María “Pichu” Torcida from Santander has been recognized by the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards as the best sailor of the year for his triumphs in the Spanish and European J70 Championships

· This is the third National Sailing Award that Torcida has been awarded after being distinguished as the best skipper of the year 2010 and receiving the award for the best team of the year 2011 with the Iberdrola Team that he skippered at the time

The Noticia team led by Pichu Torcida

José María “Pichu ” Torcida from Santander will collect the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award on September 3 in Baiona, accrediting him as the best sailor of 2021, an award that the Cantabrian will receive for his victories in the Spanish and European Sailing Championships. J70.

It will be the third National Sailing Award with which this 58-year-old industrial engineer is recognized, considered one of the best Spanish sailing skippers in recent decades. After being distinguished as the best skipper of the year 2010 and receiving the award for the best team of the year 2011 with the Iberdrola Team , who skippered then; Torcida will add a new recognition to its long list of awards in a few weeks.

“Receiving such a prestigious award is a great satisfaction. That they remember you, for me, has a lot of meaning, because it is a reward for the time dedicated to this exciting sport” , says Torcida, who will receive the award “Among friends and in a place as emblematic as the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona, which I have a special affection for”.

And it is that Galicia has been, without a doubt, one of the places most visited by Torcida during 2021, where he trained and competed aboard the Noticia, of the Real Club Náutico de Santander, the ship of which he has been the owner and skipper since 2016, and that has given him so much joy. After winning, in May 2021, the J70 Spanish Championship, held in A Coruña; The European Championship in September, in Denmark, arrived, in which he won leading a luxury team, made up of Luis Martín Cabiedes, Rayco Tabares, Pablo Santurde and Fran Palacio.

“The one-design regattas, of anyone… J70, J80, FC8, Soto40, TP52 are the best… because not only do you have to be very prepared, -says Torcida- but also have a good team. Being at the top in such close competitions is super rewarding. I miss having done more offshore regattas, but I haven’t had time for everything”, he concludes.

Pichu Torcida has sailed and triumphed in different classes – Photo Zerogradinord

In J70, Torcida has already won several victories in different Spanish championships, a European gold and silver, and a third place in the World Championship. The world championship has eluded him so far in J70, but he has already had two in J80 (2007 and 2010), a class with which he has also scored several podium finishes in national championships and cups.

His sports curriculum, in which his participation in the 1993-1994 round-the-world trip aboard the Galicia Pescanova stands out, is as extensive as it is varied. It includes victories in the IMS 500, Sydney 40 and Class 40 world championships; a couple of First Class 8 European championships; a win at the 2015 Fasnet Rolex; or several Copas del Rey, among others.

A half century of life linked to the sea that Pichu Torcida has known how to make the most of, ever since his father, José David Torcida, bought him and his brother a little sailing boat to go from Puertochico to Puntal; going through the sailing courses in the Marítimo de Santander; and his first steps in the world of competition. A path plagued with efforts and victories that will take him to Baiona on September 3 to collect a prize for sailor of the year, which is also, without a doubt, recognition of a brilliant career.

 

 

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The Soho CaixaBank Theater closes a brilliant season with the National Sailing Award for best boat

 

· The boat from Puerto Deportivo de Benalmádena has been distinguished with the National Sailing Award for the best ORC boat after achieving its sixth victory, absolute and class, in the Copa del Rey

· The project of the shipowner from Malaga Javier Banderas, brother and partner of the well-known actor Antonio Banderas, will receive the award in a year in which he celebrates 25 years of sporting career

· The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented on September 3 at a gala to be held at eight in the afternoon at the Monte Real Yacht Club in Baiona

The Soho Caixabank Theater in the Copa del Rey

The National Sailing Awards gala will sound this year with a Malaga accent after the Soho CaixaBank Theater was awarded the prize for the best ORC boat of the season. The boat, armed and led by Javier Banderas, will receive the prestigious award after achieving its sixth victory -the second in a row- in the Copa del Rey, in which, both last year and this year, it took the absolute and class wins.

The crew of the boat, a Swan 42 CS from the Puerto Deportivo de Benalmádena, includes, in addition to Javier Banderas as owner and navigator on board with the electronics, and Daniel Cuevas at the helm; Olympic medalists Luis Doreste with tactics and Domingo Manrique with spi. Also Ángel Medina as mainsail trimmer, Piti Estébanez acting as sports director and Genoa trimer, Pipe Ruiz on mast, Fernando Valderrama as free, Rafael Díaz on piano, Ángel Medina Jr. as libero, Nicolás de Virgilis in the bow and Pablo Gauna as bow helper.

A computer teacher, a terrace waterproofer, a hotel worker, a physiotherapist, a student… different professions and different origins (the majority are from Malaga but there are also Canarians) in a team that stands out for its solidity, progression and adaptability.

“The perseverance of maintaining a sports project for 25 years is not something very common today and that continuity is perhaps the most outstanding thing about this crew, which has known and been able to stay together going through many different classes and boats”, assures the sports director of the Soho CaixaBank Theater, Piti Estébanez.

The crew of the Soho Caixabank Theater receiving their Copa del Rey award – Photo Laura G Guerra

Their sixth victory, this year, in the Copa del Rey, in which a hundred boats from twenty countries competed, allowed them to climb once again to a podium that, since 2009, they have already stepped on 13 times; and get closer, more and more, to the legend. On September 3, in Baiona, they will receive the award for the best ORC boat of the year.

The Soho Caixabank Theater in competition
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Pablo Santurde from Spain wins his second National Sailing Award

 

· After being distinguished as the best skipper of the year in 2020, this time Santurde will receive the award for the best sailor, as a result of his victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre aboard the Class40 Redman

At just 35 years old, the sailor from Santander has achieved multiple successes in some of the most outstanding and complex ocean regattas on the international nautical scene

· “I have followed ocean sailing since I was a child and I never thought I would do the things I have done” , declared Santurde after learning that he was deserving of a new National Sailing Award

Pablo Santurde’s Redman on the Transat Jacques Vabre – Photo © Jean-Marie LIOT

In November 2021, after sailing 5,502 miles in 21 days, 22 hours, 33 minutes and 30 seconds, Pablo Santurde from Spain crossed the finish line of the prestigious Transat Jacques Vabre. He did it ahead of all the boats he was competing against, aboard the Class40 Redman and accompanied by Frenchman Antoine Carpentier.

His victory in the prestigious competition allowed him to write a new chapter in the history of transoceanic sailing, and almost a year after that feat, the echoes of his triumph still resonate in the Spanish nautical scene, which next September will yield a new and deserved tribute.

Pablo Santurde aboard the Redman with which he won the Transat Jaques Vabre

Santurde will receive the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best sailor, an award that, as soon as he heard the news, the sailor wanted to dedicate to his family and those who supported him from the beginning.

“In this profession we spend a lot of time away from home and the family is the one that suffers the most. I am very lucky because they support me unconditionally, and that is why they are also deserving of this award”, assured Santurde before looking back to also remember its beginnings. “Since I was little I have followed ocean sailing and I never thought I would do the things I have done. Many times the most difficult thing is to get a first opportunity that opens doors for you, and this is where I will always be grateful to Gonzalo Botín” .

With just 35 springs, this year will be the second National Sailing Award received by Pablo Santurde, who in 2020 was distinguished as the best skipper after the successes achieved aboard the M&G Tressis of the Real Club Marítimo de Santander, with which he managed to be J80 class world champion.

Pablo Santurde – Photo A Champy McLean

For this ocean sailing enthusiast, his four world championships (two in Class40 and two in J80) and his European championship (in J70) weigh as much as his victories in the Transat Jacques Vabre, the Rolex Fasnet Race, the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland and the RORC Caribbean 600.

“Despite the fact that ocean sailing in Spain does not have the following that it has in other countries, there are Spanish sailors who have achieved very important things, and the National Sailing Awards have been able to give them the support and promotion they deserve. For me it is an honor to be distinguished in this category”Santurde concludes.

 

TERRAS GAUDA NATIONAL SAILING AWARDS GALA
Saturday, September 3, 2022 8:00 p.m.
Monte Real Yacht Club (Baiona)

 

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The women’s sailing project “We want to make history” is distinguished with one of the National Sailing Awards this year

 

· The initiative promoted by the sailor from Alicante Núria Sánchez and materialized in the Dorsia Covirán Sailing Team will receive the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best female project

· The jury that awards the awards wanted to recognize the work of dissemination and promotion that the team is giving to the figure of women in the world of sailing through its many and different actions

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards ceremony will be held on September 3 at the Monte Real Yacht Club in Baiona as part of the program for the 37th Prince of Asturias Trophy

The Dorsia Covirán Sailing Team in regatta – Photo Nico Martínez

The women’s sailing project “We want to make history” has been honored this year with one of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards.

The initiative promoted and led by the sailor from Alicante Núria Sánchez and embodied in the Dorsia Covirán Sailing Team , will receive the award at a gala to be held on September 3 at the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona.

The jury that grants the distinctions wanted to recognize with the award for the Best Female Project the work of dissemination and promotion that the team is giving, through its multiple and different actions, to the figure of women in the world of sailing; as well as the values of equality and sportsmanship.

Nuria Sánchez, the double Olympic medalist Natalia Via-Dufresne, the also Olympic Susana Romero, María Torcida, Mar Gil and Martina Ruigomez.

The Dorsia Covirán Sailing Team with King Felipe VI in the last edition of the Copa del Rey – Photo Laura G Guerra

In recent years they have become a clear benchmark for women’s sailing in Spain, the result of having accumulated some of the most prestigious trophies, such as the world runner-up, the Copa del Rey de Vela in the women’s category, the Spanish Championship women’s J80, the International Women’s Sailing Cup or the Women’s Sailing League, among others.

On their last visit to Baiona, where they will collect the National Sailing Award on September 3, the Dorsia Covirán girls won the Prince of Asturias Trophy, a title they will try to revalidate in this new edition.

The last time they were in Baiona they won the Prince of Asturias Trophy – Photo Lalo R Villar

 

TERRAS GAUDA NATIONAL SAILING AWARDS GALA
Saturday, September 3, 2022 8:00 p.m.
Monte Real Yacht Club (Baiona)

In the next few days the names of the rest of the winners will be revealed.

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Xammar and Rodríguez, best Olympic team

 

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards recognize Jordi Xammar and Nico Rodríguez as the best Olympic team for the second consecutive year

· The bronze that the team made up of the Catalan and the Galician achieved at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has made them worthy of this new award

The athletes will go to Baiona on September 4 to collect the award and be honored at the gala organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club

The Galician and the Catalan giving it their all in Japanese waters – Photo © Sailingshots by María Muiña

Their youth, their effort and their enthusiasm predicted that the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award they received last year would not be the only one of their sports career, but possibly they themselves could not have imagined being able to repeat it so soon.

The Catalan Jordi Xammar (Barcelona, 1993) and the Galician Nico Rodríguez (Vigo, 1991) will receive a new National Sailing Award for the best Olympic team on September 4 at the Monte Real Club de Yates (Galicia).

The bronze medal that the men’s 470m crew achieved at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has made them worthy of the prestigious distinction for the second consecutive year, and both will be in Baiona to collect the award and receive tribute from the public.

Because the truth is that these young sailors do nothing but collect applause and admiration throughout the country, not only for their continuous chain of successes but also for their indisputable charisma.

Joy and tears after achieving bronze in Tokyo 2020 – Photo © Sailingshots by María Muiña

In the last 5 years of preparation for the Olympics, they have been the most regular of the Spanish squad, managing to get on the podium of all the world and European championships played since 2017. They got the bronze in the 2017 European Championship and in the 2018 World Cup; silver at the 2019 European and World Championships, and bronze and silver at the 2021 World and European Championships.

Trained by Gideon Kliger and Juan María de la Fuente, they arrived in Japan at the top of the world ranking and turned Enoshima into their litmus test. The Japanese bronze medal was the perfect culmination of all the years of effort of a duo that destiny brought together in 2016, years after having met for the first time when both were sailing in Optimist.

Since their farewell to Tokyo through the front door and their entry into Spanish Olympic history, they have been deserving of multiple recognitions and expressions of admiration wherever they have passed.

In Baiona they will surely repeat applause and ovations. They received them a year ago when they collected their first Terras Gauda National Sailing Award and they will receive them, without a doubt, on September 4, at a gala to which both have already confirmed their attendance.

 

 

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Spain SailGP Team will receive in Baiona the National Sailing Award for the innovative team and project

 

· The Spanish team that competes in the SailGP aboard the F50 Victoria catamaran is the youngest in the championship, the one with more Olympic athletes in its crew and the only one managed by a woman

· The award granted to them aims to recognize the boost they have given to the Spanish nautical scene by managing to include a national team in the championship and also ensuring that the competition lands in Spain

· Spain SailGP Team will receive the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the innovative team and project at a gala to be held in September at the Monte Real Club de Yates in Baiona (Galicia)

The Spanish SailGP Team in action – Photo Bob Martin for SailGP

They are the youngest in the competition, the only ones to have a woman as CEO and the crew with the most Olympic athletes on board. This is, broadly speaking, the Spain SailGP Team, the Spanish team that competes in the SailGP aboard the F50 Victoria catamaran and that next September will receive the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the team and project in Baiona (Galicia). innovative.

In its ranks we find some of the most outstanding Spanish sailors of today. Eight men and two women with experience in the main international sailing competitions, such as the Olympic Games, The Ocean Race or the Youth’s America’s Cup. They are Jordi Xammar (rod), Phil Robertson (rod), Florian Trittel (mainsail trimmer), Diego Botin (flight controller), Mateu Barber (grinder), Joan Cardona (grinder), Ñeti Cuervas-Mons (grinder), Lucas Trittel (grinder), Tara Pacheco and Andrea Emone, the two women who have joined the “Women Pathway Program” created by SailGP for women.

At the head of all of them, the director of the team María del Mar de Ros, the only woman with a position of maximum leadership in the prestigious world competition. She will be the one in charge of collecting the award on the night of September 4 at the Monte Real Club de Yates, where in 2017 they received their first national award for another great project, the Spanish Impulse Team of the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup.

The Spanish SailGP team is made up of some of the best sailors in the country – Ricardo Pinto for SailGP

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the team and innovative project aims to recognize the boost that the Spain SailGP Team has given to the Spanish nautical scene, not only for having managed to include a national team in this high-performance regatta, but also for having that the competition ends in Cádiz on October 9 and 10.

The second season of SailGP that is currently being held started last April in Bermuda and will end in March 2022 in San Francisco (USA). After passing through Plymouth (United Kingdom), Aarhus (Denmark) and Saint-Tropez (France), and before calling at Sydney (Australia), Christchurch (New Zealand) and San Francisco (USA), the competition will stop in Cadiz (October 9 and 10).

There, coinciding with the Puente de la Hispanidad and as part of the commemoration of the V Centenary of the First Voyage Around the World by Magellan and Elcano, we will be able to see what are considered the fastest ships on the planet, capable of exceeding speeds of 50 knots (100 km/ h). There will be two days of competition with three fast races that will add points towards the final victory, which will give the winning team a prize of 1 million dollars.

The spectacular regatta of the Spanish F50 Victoria – Simon Bruty for SailGP
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The communication project of the Spanish Olympic sailing team, distinguished with the Mariano Aguado Communication Award

 

· The award given within the framework of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards recognizes the work carried out by the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation to give visibility to the national team that competed in Tokyo 2020

· Designed and executed under the command of Helena de la Gándara, the project allowed the Spanish and international audience to get to know the athletes displaced to Enoshima through careful and attractive content

· The dissemination of the values of the sport of sailing and of the Spain brand both inside and outside our borders were other aspects valued when awarding the Mariano Aguado Communication Award

Helena de la Gándara was in charge of communication for the Spanish Olympic team – Photo © Sailingshots by María Muiña

The communication project of the Spanish Olympic sailing team has been distinguished with the Mariano Aguado Communication Award, a specific award for the information sector that is given within the framework of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards.

Designed and executed under the command of Helena de la Gándara, the project allowed the Spanish and international audience to get to know, in a simple, direct and accessible way, the athletes of the Spanish team who traveled to Enoshima to participate in the Olympics.

Through multiple resources, on numerous platforms and with very careful and attractive content, the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation managed to significantly increase the visibility of the fleet that competed in Tokyo 2020, while at the same time spreading the values of sailing among the public. sailing sport and the Spain brand, both inside and outside our borders.

All these aspects were what made this project worthy of the Mariano Aguado Communication Award, which Helena de la Gándara (RFEV, The Ocean Race, Vendée Globe, Barcelona World Race, America’s Cup) will collect on September 4 at Monte Royal Yacht Club of Baiona, at the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards gala.

“It is a great honor to recognize the enormous effort that has been made over the last two years – declared Helena de la Gándara- for bringing a project like this to fruition, whose purpose has been none other than to give greater visibility and promotion of the sport of sailing and its athletes. This award is the best icing on the cake we could imagine. Thank you from the bottom of my heart on behalf of all of us who have formed this team”.

Helena de la Gándara (bottom left) with the Spanish Navy of Tokyo 2020 – Photo © Sailingshots by María Muiña
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Didac Costa will receive the National Sailing Award for the best ocean sailor for his second solo round the world

 

This year, the Catalan athlete became the first Spanish sailor to circumnavigate the planet twice without stopovers or external help

· In the last Vendée Globe, considered the most extreme competition in nautical sport, it managed to circle the globe in less than 100 days

· With three round-the-world trips, two of them solo, this firefighter by profession, a fan of regatta, has entered the history of sailing on his own merits.

Didac Costa after completing his second round the world solo – Photo ©Marc Gonzalez Aloma

The Vendée Globe is, for many, the most extreme competition in the sport of sailing. It involves going around the world alone, without stops, assistance or external help, a challenge within the reach of very few and that even fewer have been able to complete as amateur sailors.

One of those prodigies of navigation is Didac Costa, a 40-year-old Catalan firefighter who in 2021 became part of the history of sailing in Spain by becoming the first Spaniard to circumnavigate the planet alone twice.

He did it aboard the IMOCA60 “One Planet One Ocean”, a 21-year-old monohull, 18 meters long and just over 5 meters wide, with which he traveled the 24,840 nautical miles (46,004 km) that entails circling the planet from west to this with departure and arrival in the French coastal town of Les Sables d’Olonne.

In the competition, which has been held every four years since 1989 and is one of the most followed nautical events in the world, 33 boats participated, of which only 25 managed to finish. Costa was the only Spaniard in the regatta and managed to complete the test in 97 days, 6 hours, 27 minutes and 3 seconds, lowering his previous mark (from the 2016-2017 edition) in 11 days.

Quite a success for a non-professional sailor who never sought to win, but rather to complete the greatest challenge in ocean sailing. He made up for the lack of resources, poor training, and the age of his ship with determination, bravery, determination, and courage. He coped with breakdowns and breakages but never gave up. And in less than 100 days since his departure, he managed to return to the starting point with a new dream fulfilled.

Didac Costa – Photo ©Marc Gonzalez Aloma

A new line was written in the history of sailing in Spain thanks to the feat of a man who began to dream of circumnavigating the planet when he was just a child, when his parents told him about José Luis de Urgarte, the Basque navigator who completed the regatta in 1993.

That dream began to take shape in 2014, when he became the youngest sailor to participate in the Barcelona World Race around the world with Aleix Gelabert. As happens with great adventurers, at the end of the race (in fourth position), Didac already had a new challenge in mind: the Vendée Globe, in which he would participate for the first time in 2016.

Without a sponsor to finance the project, having to take out a mortgage and with multiple problems from the start of the race, the sailor managed to finish it by crossing the finish line in fourteenth position. He became the second Spaniard to complete the course and the dreams continued to grow.

Didac was already thinking about a new edition of the Vendée Globe and in 2020 he re-enrolled in the competition that has allowed him to become the only Spaniard to finish the legendary French regatta twice and has earned him the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for best ocean sailor, which will be awarded at a gala on September 4 at the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona (Galicia), within the framework of the 36th Prince of Asturias Trophy.

Didac Costa training at One Planet One Ocean for the Vendee Globe – Photo © Jean-Louis Carli

 

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Echegoyen and Barceló, National Sailing Award for the best women’s team

 

· Támara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló will receive one of the National Sailing Awards on September 4 in Galicia for their brilliant career

· The Galician and the Balearic will be distinguished after having achieved the 49er FX world championship and more recently an Olympic diploma in Tokyo 2020

The gala of the National Sailing Awards will be organized one more year by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona with the sponsorship of Terras Gauda

 

World Championships, Geelong, Australia 2020 © Pedro Martinez / Sailing Energy

The Galician Támara Echegoyen (Ourense, 1984) and the Balearic Paula Barceló (Palma de Mallorca, 1996) will receive the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best women’s team on September 4 in Baiona (Galicia).
The athletes will be honored for their brilliant careers and recent successes, including gold at the 49erFX world championship, achieved in February 2020 in Geelong (Australia); and the Olympic diploma they got just a few weeks ago at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

The Japanese Olympics were the third in a row for the already veteran of the Echegoyen Games (Gold in London 2012 together with Ángela Pumariega and Sofía Toro -in Elliot 6m- and Olympic Diploma in Rio 2016 together with Berta Betanzos -in 49erFX-) and the first for the young rookie Barceló, and despite having been on the verge of the Olympic medal, both showed their full potential as a team in Enoshima.

Echegoyen and Barceló have been sailing together for just 3 years, after the Spanish Sailing Federation made a selection of athletes to assemble Támara’s team when she was still participating in the Volvo Ocean Race. Although they experienced a reverse start to the usual (teams usually grow first and then choose a boat), the truth is that the rapport between the two emerged very soon and the Galician-Majorcan tandem, trained by the former youth world champion Víctor Payá, started to show results.

Hanging from a 49er (Olympic boat since Sydney 2000 weighing 130 kilos, almost 5 meters long, 2.90 wide and with three sails -main, jib and gennacker-), under the direction of Echegoyen as skipper and with the speed from Barceló as a crew member; the team achieved an Olympic place in Enoshima, became world champions in Australia and since then has not dropped from seventh place in all the events in which they participated, also being sixth in the world ranking. Their last great achievement: the Olympic diploma with which they returned from Tokyo.

Támara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló in Tokyo 2020 – © Sailing Energy / World Sailing

The National Sailing Award that both will receive next September in Galicia will be the first for Barceló and the fifth for Echegoyen, who in 2012 received the award for the best pre-Olympic team, in 2013 for the sailor of the year, in 2016 for the best team of women’s regatta and in 2018 it was in charge of collecting the distinction awarded to MAPFRE as the best regatta team for its participation in The Ocean Race.

The gala of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be held at the Monte Real Club de Yates (Baiona), on the night of Saturday, September 4, within the framework of the 36th Prince of Asturias Trophy, which will be held on the 3rd, 4th and 5. Over the next few days, the names of the rest of the sailors and award-winning teams will be revealed.

 

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