The Women’s Cup, the new women’s class in the Copa del Rey MAPFRE will be sailed in Viper’s this year. The event is hosted by RCNP, in Majorca, between July 27th – Aug 5th 2019.

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Ten teams will compete in the class, and for the very first time in history the Copa del Rey MAPFRE will have an all-female winning team.

With the aim of reinforcing female participation in the sport of sailing, as it is being supported for the olympic classes in Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.

The choice of a one-design such as the Viper 640; suitable for crews of up to four sailors, was one of the main driving forces behind the new class. The class offers the opportunity to put each skipper and their crews’ talent and skill to the test, under exactly the same conditions. The one-designs will be handed over three days before the first race under a draw system, which ensures maximum equality between teams, with exactly the same preparation and training time for their boat and crew.

The ten all-female crews will compete in the 38th Copa del Rey MAPFRE under the new classification system, which takes place in two phases: Monday to Thursday with up to eight races and a discard, and the final stage from Friday to Saturday with three further races and no discard.