Everything ready for the start of the Eusko Label and Euskotren leagues
Euskaraz irakurri: Dena prest Euskotren eta Eusko Label ligei ekiteko
Bermeo Urdaibai and Orio, current champions of the Eusko Label and Euskotren leagues respectively, which bring together the best fishing boats from the Cantabrian Sea and Galicia, they will begin the defense of their respective crowns the next 1st of July in the VII Bandeira Cidade da Coruña.
All the regattas of both leagues can be followed live on eitb.eus, Euskal Telebista (ETB), Euskadi Irraitia and Radio Euskadi.
Both the ‘Bou Bizkaia’ and the Gipuzkoan ‘San Nikolas’ also start with the band of favorites to win the title again when the course ends, on September 17 for men and August 20 for women, in a historic season for the women’s competition with the jump from four to eight participants.
In the men’s category, the always competitive Hondarribia and Donostiarra are outlined a priori as the main rivals of the Bermeo gang trained by Iker Zabala, with Orio as the first applicant to complete the batches of honor in most races. Behind, Getaria and Kaiku, have potential and experience enough on their benches to choose to get into the lot of the best four regularly.
The big unknowns are Zierbena, Santurtzi and Cabo da Cruz. The three new coach and project In the case of the two teams from Biscay, taking a step forward after a difficult year and, in the case of the Galician, maintaining his usual solidity and achieving permanence without too many problems.
That goal of Avoiding the last place of direct relegation and the penultimate one that forces the ‘playoff’ to be played will have on paper the Biscayans of Ondarroa and Lekittarra and the recently promoted Samertolameuwhich occupies the Ares square in the league.
In the female category, in the absence of discovering the potential of newcomers Cape and Tiraneverything points to a Gipuzkoan monopoly with Orio as favorite ahead of Donostia Arraun Lagunakthe only team that challenged him for hegemony last season, and donostia.
tolosaldeawhich completed the batch in 2022, and the promoted Hondarribia and Hibaika close this first league of eight female boats that will consist of 14 scoring regattas and whose winning crew will be known on August 20 in Zarautz.
The men’s competition, for its part, will have 20 events and will conclude on the third weekend of September in Bermeo and Portugalete, also venues for the relegation or permanence play-offs in both categories.
Source: Eitb

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