The CERLAC high-performance centers Laias and Arnoia received for the first time Spain and Belgium canoeing national teams. Here they trained for preparing the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In the first phase of the training, from June 25 to July 9, both teams trained together in the Arnoia centre, you can have a look to the pictures accompanying this report. The second training involving only the Spanish team, from July 17 to August 5 and it took place in the Laias center. Just after this last training the Spanish Olympic team will travel to Brazil to compete in this discipline in the Lagoa Freitas facilities. After talking with the coaches of both teams, they told us that they were very satisfied with the conditions that they fund in both centers, so they plan to come back next seasons. Meanwhile Cerla director, Antonio Marques, expressed the wish that the training done in our centers contribute to get the maximum performance for the paddlers during the competitions in August.

The English team HENLEY ROWING CLUB, made up of 14 rowers prepared in our facilities their last training camp in view of the championships that will take place in their own country during this summer. The staff expressed that the targets set of the “stage” have been more than fulfilled; mainly due to the optimal training conditions and the weather they fund in our training centre and thermal spa. Another success for CERLAC.

In June a delegation of INORDE and members of CERLAC traveled to Varese, Italy, to participate in a meeting with the Australian Rowing team which had in​​ July 2015 a training camp in Laias. The aim of the visit was to learn about the European training center that the Australian team uses in Garivate (Varese), the rowing Federation is contemplating the construction of a new center in Europe and Ourense could be one of the places hosting such infrastructure. They also took the opportunity to prepare the next team training camp at the Laias rowing centre for the next years.