Here we are: from today the 24^th of July, the Platu 25 World Championships will take place in Alicante. After Vigo in 2006, Spain hosts for the second time a Platu 25 World Championship.

 

After the Spanish success in the World Football Championship in South Africa, Spain starts as favourite in the Platu 25 World appointment. Mexillón de Galicia-Movistar of the brothers Paz defends the title of World Champion in front of a fleet of eighty boats (about the provisional enrolment list).

 

The Spanish Champions have to compete with other very talented Spanish crews and with International Champions such as the Greek crew of “Modus Vivendi – 3 Alfa” owned by Kostas Karageorgiou, with Takis Mantis at the helm: they conquered the 2008 Platu 25 World Championship in Eraklion (Greece) and came second in the 2009 World Championship in Punta Ala.

 

German and Italian boats also will try to obtain good results, not leaving all the steps of the podium to the “Invincibile Armada” (the Spanish crews in Alicante will be around 40).

 

Today, Monday 19 July, there will take place the official training races starting from 15.00, while the official regatta will start tomorrow on Tuesday from 12.30. Today the crews are going to complete their inscriptions and competing their official training races. Today also we’ll know if the fleet will race as one fleet or if the fleet will be divided in two groups as happened in Punta Ala last year.

 

At 7.00 pm there will be the Official Opening World Ceremony with the main authorities of the Comunitat and Alicante. The Platu 25 fleet will fight for the World prize until next Saturday.

Click here to see the entry list

 

 

 2006 World Championship- Vigo (España)

1º.- BMW-Rex Motors (Manu Weiller)

2º.-TNT-Fra Martina (Lorenzo Bresani)

3º.- Balearia-Deporte Galego (Gonzalo Araújo)

4º.- Vilagarcía (Echavarri y Paz)

5º.- La Revoltosa (Joachin Hellmich)

 

2007 World Championship – Neustadt (Alemania)

1º.- La Revoltosa (Joachin Hellmich)

2º.- Flexi (Niklas Ganssauge)

3º.- Vilagarcía (Carlos paz)

4º.- Immac System (Kai Mares)

5º.- Bros (I. Arakawa)

 

2008 World Championship – Heraclion (Creta)

1º.- Modus Vivendi (Takis Mantis)

2º.- Flexi (Niklas Ganssauge)

3º.- Bribón (Marc de Antonio)

4º.- Tuypan-Deporte Galego (Alberto García)

5º.- Bros (Naofumi Kamei)

 

 2009 World Championship – Punta Ala (Italia)

1º.- Vilagarcia (Carlos / Antón Paz)

2º.- Modus Vivendi - 3 Alfa (Takis Mantis)

3º.- Bribón - Movistar (Marc de Antonio)

4º.- Central Lechera Asturiana (Natalia Vía-Dufresne)

5º.- La Revoltosa (Jaime Pont)

 

 

Sabrina Bonaiti

+39 3392655121

Skype: sabrinabonaiti

Sabrinabonaiti@libero.it

www.platu25.com

 

 

Pep Portas

+34 657624420

Skype: pepportas

 

 

English edited by Kev Scott (Thailand NCA)