Mallorcan Joshua Castro crowned Under-15 Boys’ Techno 293 World Champion

The Spanish team delivered an outstanding performance at the Techno 293 World Championship, held in the waters off Foça (Turkey), finishing with two world titles and three bronze medals, confirming the high level of Spanish youth sailing in international windsurfing.

The event brought together sailors from all over the world and was decided after 10 races with one discard, in a championship marked by highly variable conditions, with light winds playing a major role for much of the week.

Mallorca’s Joshua Castro, from Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa, was crowned Under-15 Boys’ World Champion, successfully defending the title he won in 2025 and claiming his third consecutive world gold after the one he earned in 2024 in the Under-13 category. The Balearic sailor, also European champion in 2024 and continental bronze medallist in 2025, thus confirms his dominance in the class.

In the same category, Spain also produced a strong overall team performance, with bronze for Marcos Dasilva (RCN Rodeira), fourth place for Biel Martorell, also from CMSAP, sixth for Juan Bartolomé Servera, from Club Nàutic s’Arenal, and sixteenth for Alejandro Cuesta, consolidating a very solid group in the class.

Also in Under-15, Cristina Iglesias (RCN Gran Canaria) was crowned Girls’ World Champion, completing a Spanish double in this category. Marta Vaquer, meanwhile, finished in twenty-second place.

Spain’s medal haul was completed with three bronze medals. In the women’s Techno 293 Plus category, Martina Bárbara Tor (RCN Gran Canaria) claimed bronze, while Lucía Martín de la Vega finished seventeenth.

In the Under-17 Girls’ category, Seville’s Olivia Sánchez (CN Sevilla), a two-time world champion in younger age groups, stepped onto the podium with a bronze medal on her debut in this category, confirming her international progress. In the same class, Galicia’s Lindia Miel Pousa (RCN Rodeira), world champion in 2025 and current Spanish Cup champion, finished nineteenth, while Ana García (CN Sevilla) ended in twenty-seventh place.

Meanwhile, in the Under-17 Boys’ category, Curro Llorca (CN Sevilla) achieved a commendable sixth place.

In the Under-13 category, Spain was represented by Biel Escudero (21st), María Martorell (22nd), from CMSAP, and Julia García (26th) (CN Sevilla), in a highly competitive fleet featuring the future stars of the class.

With these results, Spain confirms its strength in youth windsurfing classes, adding another international success in a key competition for the development of sailors on their path to high performance.