The moment of truth has arrived for the paddlers who have trained at Cerlac for the Paris Olympic Games. Canoeist Francisco Cubelos has put the cherry on the cake in the Kayak category, thus joining the Canoe section of the Spanish Canoe Federation (Antía Jácome and María Corbera), the Portuguese Kayak section (Fernando Pimenta), the Argentine and Swedish Kayak sections and the Rowing and Kayak sections of Latvia. Good luck to all of them from the thermal village of Laias.
The rowing and canoeing training center at Balneario de Laias will host a Thousand rowers and canoeists of the different nationalities this year, including the rowing federations of Spain and the canoeing federation of Sweden, which have already started their concentrations in the town thermal to prepare for de Paris 2024 Olympics, also the Latvia Kayak Federation, wich will be training at its facilities during de month of March.
Those who contribute the most paddlers to Cerlac are the teams from institutes and universities from England, the Netherlands an Denmark, and the presence of some of them, that of the Kayak Swedicsh Federation, extends for almost three months in intermitent periods. Several veteran clubs from the United Kingdom will also be at Cerlac preparing the competitions in their respective categories..
Throughout this year, Cerlac will welcome rowers and canoeists from England, Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, France and Netherlands, consolidating itsself as European reference for athletes practiciing these nautic disciplines .
In the pfhoto, shirts from the Phocas club from the Netherlands training in Laias.
During these firts months of the year, the Laias, Arnoia and Castrelo de Miño Rowing Trainning has welcomted the German and Spanish Rowing Federations and the Swedish Canoeing Federation, as well as club from Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal, an activity that consolidates it as an international reference for the practice of this sport in the waters of the Miño River.
Cerlac has recovered its full activity this year after the two years of pandemic that prevented some clubs and national teams from enjoying the high performance centre of the thermal village of Laias normally. Germany, England and Spain have been the countries that have had more presence in the centre during the first part of the year, which also welcomed during this month of August teams from other countries that participated in the Coupe de Jeunesse de Castrelo de Miño.
On the part of Germany trained in the Cerlac the teams Jochen, Hassia and Rudergessel and the Paralympics of canoe; on the part of England, Putney, Shrewburry, Church Oxford, Thames and Auriol Kesin and on the part of Spain teams of the Absolute Selection and the Junior of Rowing and formations of the Canoe Selection, in particular the Absolute of Kajak and Canoe, the Sub 23 and the Paralympics. It was also present at Cerlac Portugal with its canoeing team.
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The Cerlac remained in full activity during the first half of the year, hosting differente teams from de Spahish rowing and canoeing federations. Regarding the Canoeing Federation, the Canoeing and Canoe teams trained with us, and on the part of the Rowing Federation the Juniors and the Paralympic team.
The paddlers of the Paralympic team of the Spanish Rowing Team are training at Cerlac during the second half of December to prepare the qualifying tests for the Games that will take place in the Italian city of Varese from April 5 to 7.
The paddlers of the youth team of the Spanish Rowing Team (U19) concentrated in the high-tech center of the Balneario de Laias during the first half of December to prepare for the international competitions of the 2021 season.
The Spanish Tourism Quality Institute has awarded to our Laias Thermal Spa the certification of the “Tourist Quality” and “Safe Tourism Certified” seals, both are quality and safe tourism marks in Spain. The audits performed by this institute in the thermal village certify the Caldaria’s commitment to the quality of management and to the prevention against Covid-19 transmission risks.
After more than two months of training at the Cerlac facilities, which start again its activity last July, the junior team of the Spanish Rowing federation and an other 2 teams of the Spanish canoeing federation won several medals in both competition, the European Championship for the junior rowing team in Serbia and the World Championship in Hungary for the canoeing teams, fulfilling the goals set during the hard training days they done in Laias, a high-performance centre that after the pandemic situation has complete a certification process to be a safe destination for athletes in Covid-19 prevention.
The veteran rowers of the Club Aviron Marne J’inville, Gabrielle Zeitoun and Jean Marc Fage, prepared their international competitions at the Cerlac facilities in Laias, repeating the “stage” already carried out in past seasons.