Nacho Baltasar is crowned at the IQFoil Games

The Club Nàutic Sa Ràpita sailor and next Spanish Olympic representative at the Paris Games, Nacho Baltasar, has been proclaimed champion at the IQFoil Games held this week in Cádiz.

As well as being the overall champion, Nacho Baltasar is also the U23 winner of the International iQFOil Games Andalucía Bahía de Cádiz 2024, held in the waters of the Bay of Cadiz. The regatta came to an end after a very tough day, marked by NW winds of between 20 and 25 knots and two-meter waves, which only the adults and the U19 boys were able to cope with for safety, while the U17 boys and the U17 and U19 girls stayed ashore, making the order of the top 10 final after the penultimate day.

Victory for Club Nàutic Sa Ràpita sailor Nacho Baltasar among the men, a fleet in which the Spanish representative at the Paris Olympics won the double, absolute and Under 23, and beat the Polish Olympian Pawel Tarnowski and his compatriot Michal Polak, second and third, respectively. Baltasar, who was defending third place behind both of them, turned the scoreboard around to win on home soil and get an excellent feeling after a week of extreme conditions.

After the regatta, the trophy ceremony took place at the Specialised Centre for Sailing Sports Technification Bahía de Cádiz, in a ceremony attended by the president of the Andalusian Sailing Federation and first vice-president of the RFEV, Paco Coro, the Councillor Delegate for Sports of the City Council of El Puerto de Santa María and Andalusian Member of Parliament, José Ignacio González Nieto, the President of the iQFOil Youth Class, Lorand Utassy, and the Secretary of the International iQFOil Class Association, Gonzalo Costa.