The big event of the season in the iQFoil class starts this Monday, October 17, the day marked in red on Pilar Lamadrid’s calendar (They are from here / Livinda / Puerto Sherry / Fundación Andalucía Olímpica) to try to put the rubric to the which is currently the best year of his career. In full sporting maturity (she will turn 26 on December 12), the Sevillian windsurfer based in El Puerto de Santa María faces the World Championship in Bret (France) with the intention of improving, if possible, the fourth place achieved last year in this competition to achieve a new podium that consolidates it at the top of the international ranking of the new Olympic discipline of the tables.
Located since June in the first position of the world ranking of her modality, included in the program of the 2024 Paris Games, the sailor with a license from the Puerto Sherry Yacht Club has trained conscientiously in the Gallic regatta field during the last weeks to return to fight with the elite of the class. The objective is none other than to increase a list of winners that this year includes three international wins and a subtitle, as well as a seventh place in the European Championship and a fourth in the Mediterranean Games.
Pilar Lamadrid (ESP-12) will have to deal with a fleet of more than a hundred boards. Among them, there will be no shortage of the best specialists of the iQFOil class, including the current world and European champion, the French Helene Noesmoen, without forgetting the powerful British, Israeli or Chinese sailors, among other rivals.
Ahead, the Andalusian, included in the so-called Spain Elite Team of the Higher Sports Council, has six days of competition and scheduled sleeves in a stern-close, slalom and marathon format that will culminate with the Medal Race, reserved for the top ten classified the final series and that will include quarterfinals and semifinals.
Tribute to Ricardo Carracedo
The recent death of the former coach of Lamadrid in his childhood and youth stage, the Sevillian Ricardo Carracedo, is one more incentive to seek a good result with which to honor the memory of the coach with whom he precisely debuted at the Brest regatta course , almost a decade ago on the occasion of a European Junior Championship in the RS:X class in 2013.
Pilar Lamadrid: “I am very happy to have been able to train here for several weeks because the conditions are very particular, and we have practically returned to winter. For the rest, all the top sailors worldwide will be there, since there are more than 100 registered, so I am looking forward to seeing what the competition holds for us, in which we do not know the wind conditions that we are going to have, because the part changes every day.
On a personal level, I am satisfied with the work done prior to the World Cup, for which I feel strong and confident, ready to close the season with a good result, which I would like to dedicate to Ricardo Carracedo, with whom I made my debut in Brest. As he always said, I would like to enjoy each regatta. And that is what I intend to do, Ricardo”.
