Narón de Ferrolterra (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The Samertolameu Sports Society of Meira- Moaña in the heart of Vigo, one of the entities of the rowing at the national level with the highest prestige in the world of rowing, was proclaimed winner of the Galicia Ence- Concello de Marín de Bateles Cup, first of the three events of the Week Abanca 2021, as far as rowing is concerned. The Pontevedrés club achieved three gold medals, two silver and one bronze.

After the appointment of the traditional rowing, next Thursday is the turn to the school rowing ergometer, a competition in which two hundred athletes will be gathered... which will be held in the splendid polysports pavilion of the San Narciso College of Marín.

The third rowing date will be the Spanish League of RemoMar, which will have clubs from all over the Peninsula... from the Basque Country to Catalonia, with the presence of at least four major clubs in Portugal, since the competition has the rank of the Iberian Championship and will be held with the Grand Prix of the Diputación de La Coruña in waters of the incomparable era of Betanzos, at the Ensenada of Sada in the coming November, on 13 and 14.

Meira and Tiran in the Galicia Ence-Concello de Marín Cup (Photo Pedro Seoane)

Excellent conditions at the Alcalde Antonio Blanco de Marín, with soft winds... high temperatures and the sea practically flat. The organization that led the Maritime Vigo Club of the Marin Military Naval School, as well as the Samertolameu Sports Society that was responsible for the assembly of the track, of the College of Judges of the Galician Federation of Remo, chaired by Manuel Seijas and of the Club of Remo Vila de Cangas, which will be the technical manager of the reergometer on Thursday, must be highlighted.

In competition, two hundred athletes from seven clubs among the main Galician clubs, among which were not the clubs of Cabo de Cruz and Chapela, for being competing at the Flag of the Concha in San Sebastián.

The Galicia Ence de Bateles Cup, could not be held in 2020 because of the pandemic, and had been postponed up to three times; the reason is that it is a competition followed by many fans and health standards had prevented it with sufficient guarantees until a few days ago. There was much expectation, as the batels have not started the season and have been training for very few days... but it all resulted in full satisfaction and the competition was followed by the followers of the respective clubs with passion and with cries of encouragement.

The first batch was the first medal for the young alevin remers of the Ria de Ares Club, an entity that competes in the first category of trainers, in the ACT League. After them another of the elite, the Tiran Sports Society, being the bronze for Samertolameu.

Tiran, Naron, Samertolameu and Meira in the last batch (Photo Pedro Seoane)

They completed the participation of the girls, first the children taking the Samertolameu gold, followed by Tiran and Meira... and the cadets below are this final order: Tiran, Samertolameu and Moaña.

In the male categories, the club of Meira, the legendary Samertolameu took two oars: alevines and cadets... by the way with a lot of advantage over its rivals; while the Viguese of Virxe da Guía were made with two plates (alevines and infantiles), becoming Tiran with a silver in cadets and a bronze in infantiles.

The queen competition of the day of meeting with the batels in Galician waters was missing: the young. The expectation was important and the judges granted an extra time between sleeves, so that the boys could train a few more minutes.

Undiscussed victory for the Naron Remo Club of Ferrolterra, with an excellent chrono of 05.37.68, followed by Samertolameu with 05.52.56, being the bronze for another of the ACT clubs, the Tiran Sports Society.

The next event of the Abanca Week, by the hand of the Club Marítimo de Vigo and that of Canido, the Iberian Championship of ILCA 4.7, 6 and 7 (old laser), which will gather 100 lasers from all over Spain and Portugal in the Trophy Concello de Vigo de Vela Ligera. It will be the next weekend, in the race field of the Cis Islands.

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FINAL MEDALLER

1 S.D. Samertolameu 3-2-1
2nd C.R. Ares 2-1-0
3rd S.D.Tiran 1-2-3
4th C.R.Naron 1-0-2
5th C.R.Virxe da Guía 0-2-0
6th C.R.Meira 0-0-1
7th C.R.Moaña 0-0-1