With four ships already qualified for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, selections of female rowing and male Romania seek to optimize the fitness of the teams that will try to enter the final list of competing in Brazil in August.

The president of the council of Ourense , Manuel Baltar , received at the Provincial Pazo visit of the president of the Spanish Federation of Rowing , Fernando Climent, who was accompanied by Luis Maria Lasurtegui , vice president of the federal entity , both medalists with the Spanish selection at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Baltar and Climent reviewed the possibility of establishing lines of collaboration between the County Council of Ourense and the Spanish Rowing Federation to allow further work in the specialization of Ourense in ‘sports Hydrotherapy”.

During all February 4 people (athletes and staff) from the Bulgarian federation are training in Cerlac. They will prepare their participation to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The last 5th of April the English school Borlase began its training camp in Cerlac, Borlase is one of many colleges practicing rowing in Britain. After the first contact made with the team’s head coach, his feeling was very positive, highlighting the quality of the Miño River with a very quiet and still water and the efficiency of the services provided in the hotel Laias. By the way, after the first training done in the Laias center they booked new dates for April 2016.

The French women’s rowing team has already completed its first phase of the winter training in CERLAC, They will come again on 3 February to complete two weeks of “stage” planned for the winter preparation. As follows you will find some pictures of the training during the first half of January.

The presence in Laias of the University of Oxford women’s team for its winter stage, as mentioned by the president of the province, Jose Manuel Baltar , promotor of CERLAC, let the opportunity to study the possibility to organize, in the near future, the regatta between Oxford and Cambridge in the Castrelo de Miño reservoir., with the aim of promoting the rowing fan’s appreciation in Ourense. As follows you will find some pictures of the team training sessions in the center of Laias.

The christening should be done, and the 58 members of the junior British rowing team did it. They inaugurated the facilities of the new Cerlac training camp centre located in the Arnoia thermal Spa. We share with you some pictures of one of the first training session done in the middle of the spectacular landscape that draws the Frieira Reservoir. During the months of March and April 2016 will be concentrated in Cerlac Arnoia, more than 300 rowers from different UK schools and universities team.

The cycling Tour of Spain 2016 (Vuelta 2016) will begin in the thermal spa center Laias & CERLAC training camp located in the reservoir of Castrelo. This news was confirmed this morning by the director of Tourism of the Galician government, Nava Castro, doing it in the facilities of the Nautical club Castrelo de Miño, where is the finish line of the first stage. Undoubtedly, it is a great reward for the effort made during the last year for the start up of our high performance rowing training center, which will inaugurate, this month of December, the new facilities in Arnoia located in Frieira Reservoir.