Urdaibai continues to lead the Eusko Label League with their fourth victory, this time in the waters of Zierbena, where the Bermeo team clearly won the Petronor Flag. The Bou Bizkaia has won all four league matches played to date, as well as the championships of Bizkaia, Euskadi and Spain.

Those skippered by Gorka Aranberri have led the regatta from the first strokes and They have marked the best times in the three turningsbut they had to deal with a very combative Orio trainera in the first half of the race, and with Hondarribia, which despite its weak start, was on the verge of giving the Bizkaia team a scare.

The race seemed to be clearly in favour of those from Bermeo in the second length, when Urdaibai has caught a good wave and has put 5 seconds on Orio, which until then was sailing two seconds behind, 6 on Zierbena and 8 on Hondarribia.

Everything indicated that we were facing a new exhibition, the fourth in the league, from the crew trained by Iker Zabala, but then it came the comeback of Ama Guadalupekoa. The Greens, who were rowing in last position in the round, have been moving up positions and have gone from being 10 seconds behind the Bermeo team in the last turn, to being just three seconds behind in the last stretch.

But the league’s leading trainera has once again demonstrated trade and an exceptional state of fitness, and in just a few metres he has increased that difference to 6 seconds, two rowboats’ distance between them.

Clear victory for Urdaibai

In the end, victory for Urdaibai with a time of 19:41. Hondarribia was second at 7 seconds, Zierbena third at 10 and Orio fourth at 15. All of them better than the 20:02 marked by Donostiarra in the second roundwhere the Gipuzkoans have been far superior to Getaria (+16 seconds), Ondarroa (+19 seconds) and Lekittarra (+30 seconds).

In the Third round, the victory went to the Galician Cabo da Cruz (20:20), after a tight finish against Kaiku (+ 0.45 seconds), and ahead of San Pedro (+9 seconds) and Bueu (+ 27 seconds).

Petronor Flag Classification

Eusko Label League Standings