José Vicente Climent, from the CV Bahía de Cádiz, in the sailing skating class, was the overall winner of the 57th International Sailing Ascent of the Guadalquivir
José Vicente Climent, from C.V. Bahía de Cádiz, in the sailing dinghy class, was the overall winner of the 57th edition of the International Sailing Ascent of the Guadalquivir, which links Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) with Seville and was attended by around 150 sailors and around 50 boats from six classes of light sailing and cruising.
On a day of light winds, with gusts of 5 to 8 knots, Climent’s dinghy was the first to complete the first and only scoring leg of the oldest and longest race on the national sailing calendar, dating back to 1966, after completing the 35-nautical-mile course from Sanlúcar de Barrameda to La Puebla del Río (Seville).
Subsequently, according to the race organizer, the Sevilla Nautical Club, this Sunday, the fleet traveled three more miles to arrive at the club’s facilities in the Andalusian capital, after passing in formation through the lock that accesses the Seville basin.
As expected, a light sailing boat led the fleet, and in this case it was José Vicente Climent’s sailing dinghy, who, as the overall winner, won the Royal Spanish Assembly of Yacht Captains (RAECY) Trophy and also the El Corte Inglés Trophy in his class, ahead of his teammate on the C.V. Bahía de Cádiz, Alfonso Merello, and Nicolás Hernández (Náutico Sevilla).
In the Windsurfer class, the Ricardo Carracedo Memorial, in tribute to the former director of the Ascenso and national surfing coach who passed away last year, won the Cajasur Trophy for José Ignacio Pérez Lago (R.C.N. La Línea), followed on the podium by Fernando González de la Madrid and Borja Hernández, from C.N. Puerto Sherry.
The hosts, Club Náutico Sevilla, made a clean sweep of the Andalusian Regional Government Trophy, aimed at the ILCA 6 class, with Enrique Muñoz, Eduardo Orihuela, and Juan Gómez.
In the Raquero class, the IMD Seville City Council Trophy went to the school boat skippered by Fernando Medel (R.C.N. Sanlúcar), followed by the C.N. Trocadero boats of Juan Carlos Sánchez and Joaquín Perea.
The Catamaran victory went to Santiago Nieto’s Hobie 14 (C.N. Puerto Sherry), ahead of Alfonso Molina (C.N. Sevilla). In the Cruising category, Manuel Páez’s Arrimo, carrying the Club Náutico Sevilla flag, won the Royal Spanish Naval League Trophy after being the first boat in its class, finishing third after time compensation behind Miguel Ángel Cervantes’ Idefix I (C.N. Sevilla) and Ignacio Rodríguez’s ‘Cabildillo’ (C.A.N.D. Chipiona).
The Carlos Gassol Memorial, in memory of the former Náutico Sevilla athlete who died in 2016 and honoring the youngest participant to complete the course, went to Ignacio Fernández-Palacios, a 6-year-old sailor from the Seville club.
The fifty-seventh edition of the Guadalquivir River Sailing Ascent was held again in spring, two decades later, returning to the origins of this event.