Over the weekend, the Iberdrola Spanish Sea Rowing Championships were held at the Tiro de Pichón facilities of the Real Club de Regatas de Alicante. 44 different clubs, Winner included teams from New Zealand and the United States Royal Regatta Club of Alicante declared itself the ‘best club in Spain’ by winning the overall medal table and the masters medal table.

The ninth Iberdrola Spanish Sea Rowing Championship, held in the waters of the Bay of Alicante in the last three days, was organized by the Spanish Rowing Federation, the Valencian Community Rowing Federation and the Royal Alicante Regatta Club. In addition, it has the collaboration of the Spanish Olympic Committee and the PAC CV program supported by the Spanish Olympic Committee. Trinidad Alfonso Foundation.

The peculiarity of this rowing discipline is that it is performed in open water; Also, due to its hardness, route and orientation capacity of the rowers, they have to navigate between three and six kilometers, depending on the heats (qualifier or final) and the category. Bringing together more than six hundred rowers and a total of 44 clubs, the test was carried out in student, junior, absolute and experienced categories and in a total of twenty-two modes (solo, pair and four-coxswain, quad). male and female and mixed pair, none and senior).

At this link you can see how the test was developed in the waters of the bay of Alicante at the Spanish Sea Rowing Championships – Alicante 2023.

The winner of this open water event was Real Club de Regatas de Alicante. He appeared on the podium sixteen times in total. The locals won gold in seven of the twenty-two methods: mixed experienced pair, women’s experienced foursome and men’s experienced pair; double in female students and male juniors and four in female students and male juniors. The Alicante club dominated the medal table.

RCRA Medals in Sea Rowing Events

  • Gold in the mix of C2x Veterano, María José Porcel and Álvaro Crespo.

  • C2x Young Men’s Gold, Santiago Seijo and Nicolás Iborra

  • Gold medal in the C4x+ Male Junior category, with Jorge Huelamo, Alejandro Manteca, Alejandro Moreno, Ignacio Noland and Brianna Blanco at the helm.

  • Gold medal in C4x+ Female Veteran, with María Dolores Domínguez, María José Porcel, Elena Espinosa, Leire Iglesias and Briana Blanco at the helm.

  • C4x+ Junior Men’s gold medal, with Santiago Seijo, Nicolás Cayuela, Pedro Diaz, Pedro Torres and Álvaro Miralles at the helm.

  • Gold in C2x Male Veteran, Álvaro Crespo and Fernando Miñana.

  • Gold in C2xCadete Feleneno, Carmen Jarabo and Aitana Carrión.

  • C2x Junior Women’s Silver, Lucía Navarro and Belén Hernández.

  • Silver in C4x+ Female Cadet, with Aitana Carrión, Lucía Devesa, Ana Baeza, Carmen Jarabo and Brianna Blanco at the helm.

  • Bronze for C2x Female Cadet, Marina López and Lucía Devesa.

  • Bronze medal in C4x+ Junior Men, with Lázaro Villalta, Vicente Huesca, Angel García, Nicolas Iborra and Miguel Mico at the helm.

  • Bronze in C2x Female Veteran, María José Porcel and Elena Espinosa.

  • Bronze in the C2x Medley, seniors Rosa Mari López and Fernando Sánchez.

  • Bronze in C4x+ Male Veteran, Javier López, José Manuel Albeza, Alberto Jarabo, Rafael Iglesisa and Sergio López as coxswain.

  • Bronze at C2x Absolute Male, Salas brothers, Miguel and Marcos.

  • Bronze medal in C2x Absolute Women, Violeta Belda and Sofia Antón.