250 teams

Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofía MAPFRE will see the ISAF Sailing World Cup come to Europe

The 40th Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofía MAPFRE, to be held over 4-10 April in the bay of Palma, is now part of the ISAF Sailing World Cup. Following the Melbourne and Miami regattas, this new Sailing Cup will have its debut in Europe with the Majorcan regatta, sponsored for fourth consecutive year by Spanish leading insurance company MAPFRE and organised by four Clubs of the bay of Palma de Mallorca: Club Nàutic S’Arenal, Real Club Náutico de Palma, Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa and Escuela Nacional de Vela de Calanova.

With only a month and a half to go for the beginning of the third regatta of the ISAF Sailing World Cup, the Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofía MAPFRE already has signed up over 250 teams and almost 400 competitors to this the most important Olympic classes regatta in Spain. The Sofia will be a trial event for the RFEV pre-Olympic team together with the Semana Olímpica de Andalucía – Regata de Carnaval that starts in Cadiz on Thursday.

40 nations

The most surprising figure is found in the number of participating nations. 40 nations are already represented on the entry lists of this 40th edition of the Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofía MAPFRE. Competitors from all over Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, USA and Oceania will meet in the bay of Palma at Easter.

Nine Olympic disciplines will take part in the regatta (all except for the Women’s Match racing that has been cancelled due to the lack of information on the expected number of participating teams) as well as the Paralympic 2.4mR and the Dragon as invited class. The largest number of entries is registered in the Laser Standard (59) followed by the 470 Men (34) and the Laser Radial (32). The following categories in the ranking are the 49er (29) and Finn (28).

The organisation of the Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofía MAPFRE has invited the 2008 Olympics Games three Olympic medallists in each class as well as the first, second and third classified at the 2008 World and European championships.

The Consortium Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofía, the managing body of the Majorcan regatta which welcomes this year car manufacturer Opel as a new collaborator, has distributed the classes among the four organising clubs as follows: 470 M&W F, Finn and 49er in Club Nàutic S’Arenal; Star and Dragon in Real Club Náutico de Palma; RS: X M & W, Laser Standard & Laser Radial in Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa and Paralympic class 2.4mR in Escuela Nacional de Vela de Calanova.