Verónica Navarro y Álvaro Cabrera reinan en Las Canteras

The jewel of the crown of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria wore its best galas to host the fourth edition of the crossing to swim T-Classics Las Canteras. With the sky completely blue and the sea calm, more than 300 swimmers walked the 1,500 meters that go from the area of the Gravina street until La Puntilla.

The swimmer of the Club Swimming Metropole Álvaro Cabrera was crowned absolute winner of the fourth edition of this test, with a time of 16 minutes and 28 seconds. However, Cabrera came close to the border with Gabriel de León, CN Ciudad Alta, second and Dávide Ledda of CN Aguacan, third, who stopped the clock in 16 minutes and 45 seconds and 16 minutes and 47 seconds, respectively.

In women, Veronica Navarro, from the club Disa Hospital Perpetuo Socorro, was the first to cross the goal arch, signing a time of 17 minutes and 54 seconds. Flavia Maunder, from the Swim & Train club, climbed to the second step of the podium with an 18-minute, 17-second time. The third place was for Xiomara Cerpa, winner in the 2016 edition, who on this occasion completed the distance in 19 minutes and 8 seconds.

Great atmosphere. The T-Classics again brimmed with sports in the La Puntilla area. This fourth edition has been the most numerous of the celebrated to date, surpassing for the first time the figure of 300 enrolled. In total, 333 swimmers gathered in Las Canteras to enjoy a sporting day marked by the good atmosphere and the matchless setting of celebration of this journey.

From 12.00 o'clock in the morning, with the beginning of the swimmer's bag, the barullo became a hole in the Deputy Eduardo Suárez Morales square on top of the Real Club Victoria, nerve center of the event.

So, once the tide had filled up, leaving the beach 'ready' for a few laps, at 2.30 pm the swimmers set off with a walk along the shore to the exit zone, located at height of Gravina street. Along the walk, the swimmers received the encouragement of how many were meeting in Las Canteras, on a morning more typical of the summer than the already released autumn.

After this, at 3:00 p.m., the starting signal for the fourth edition of the T-Classics was framed this year in the Open Water Series, a circuit that brings together four crossings to swim in different points of Gran Canaria and that will have as Last stop the Mogán Open Water.

Municipal support. In a city like Las Palmas de Gran Canaria that hosts more than 300 sports events every year outdoors, apart from the federated competitions, support and municipal coordination becomes a key element to be able to carry out the projects.

In this crossing of Las Canteras, the councils of the District Isleta Puerto Canteras, led by Sergio Millares, the City of Mar, with José Eduardo Ramírez to the front, and the Sports Department, with Aridany Romero participated in coordination work.

Veteranism and youth. If something is characterized by crossings swim is for engaging both the younger and experienced swimmers. The Las Palmas swimming trip wanted, as every year, to have a detail with his swimmer of less and older. So José Gabriel Santana and Noelia María Sánchez shared podium and experience, despite the 64 years that separate them.

And so it closed the T-Classics Las Canteras 2017, which will again fill swimmers on the beach of the capital on October 6, 2018, which will now be its fifth edition and for which the organization anticipates developments.