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Juan Calvo Boronat from Real Club Náutico de Valencia will skipper Swan 60 Petite Flamme in this year’s Nord Stream Race starting on the 20th September. At only 22 years of age this is a tough entry race into the Gazprom Swan 60 circuit with 800nm offshore to cover.

Juan Calvo started sailing at 8 years old and was top 10 at the Optimist Europeans, he then moved into the Europe dinghy class taking a 6th at the Worlds and 2nd at the Europeans.

More recently the Spanish racer has been sailing an X-41 winning the Corinthian Class at the 2015 ORC World Championships and finishing 10th overall. Last year he was 3rd at Copa Espana ORC and 5th at Trofeo Conde de Godo ORC.

Juan Calvo is eager to start the Nord Stream Race, “I chose to race the Swan 60 this year after winning the ORC World Championship in the Corinthian Class, so this is a great step for myself and my crew. Antonio Marinez, Juan Faus and Nicolas Linares are my core crew, we won our ORC title together”.

The Spanish crew have raced together for 3 years putting together some fantastic race series. Joining Petite Flamme for the Nord Stream Race will be Florian Kreis who, a Rolex Sydney Hobart Race Champion and has completed the race an impressive four times. Florian will bring important offshore experience to the team.