M32s: World Match Racing Tour , Iker Martinez racing at Copenhagen 2016

Image: Ian Roman / wmrt.com – After being out for Rio Iker continues full racing schedule, chances he might come to BA also for the F18 Worlds.  Now focused on the World Match Racing Tour being raced in M32s. Full report at wmrt.com/olympic-49er-champions-set-to-make-their-tour-debut-in-copenhagen:
“…Martinez taking the helm of the M32 catamaran for the first time. While he has spent most of his career competing in monohulls, Martinez has spent the past three years campaigning in the Olympic catamaran class, the Nacra 17, although injury at the World Championships in Florida at the beginning of the year put paid to his hopes of representing Spain for the fourth time at the Olympic Games.

Now Martinez will draw on all that Nacra experience as he focuses on adapting himself to the demands of the M32 in the fiercest match racing environment in world sailing…
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Qualifying Results: wmrt.com/results/