The polemics arises of where should be located the goal: Ribadesella or Llovio. The neighbors of Llovio are declared in Oviedo distributing pamphlets affirming that the goal will be in Llovio. The confusion grows, the neighbors of Llovio argue that the River Train does not arrive with facility al soft, for which they are done a series of tests resulting all they satisfactory.

Finally it is the mayor who decides to support the option of Ribadesella. This year has meaning the fact that the colors appear like symbol identificativo: Ribadesella-> Red; Infiesto->White; Gijón -> Green; Arriondas-> Blue; Santander->Red and White; Bilbao ->Black and Red; Madrid-> Yellow.

Earns Manuel González and Jesus Villar of Ribadesella with its canoe “Sta. Marina”, the time carried out 2 h 2 min 25 seg.