Presentation of the 55th Sevilla-Betis regatta
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COUNTDOWN TO THE 55TH SEVILLA-BETIS REGATTA

09/11/2021
Both crews made themselves known at the CEAR Cartuja together with the key information about the complete programme in San Francisco square

The 55th Sevilla-Betis regatta was presented to the media on Tuesday in an act carried out at the high-performance centre for rowing in La Cartuja in which all the details of next Saturday's programme on November 13th were announced. In attendance was the president of the Andalusian Rowing Federation, Miguel Ángel Millán; the director of the race Dani Sierra, the director-general of planning, installations, and sports events for the Andalusian council, Isabel Sánchez; the sporting delegate from the Seville council; David Guevara, the president of the port authority, Rafael Carmona: Luis Castro and Antonio Álvarez representing Sevilla FC and Rafael Gordillo on behalf of Real Betis as well as Ángela Claverol, president of AMAMA Sevilla, the cancer charity that this edition of the race is supporting and which has an inclusive rowing team, The Lions of Guadalquivir. 

 

The precursor to the Guadalquivir River derby served to put names and faces to the main participants in the Andalusian rowing classic, which can be traced back to 1960 and which after a break last year, will return to its normal format. At the start point at Muelle de las Delicias a new grandstand has been installed, a big screen to follow the races and a catering area for supporters. From 10:15 there will be promotion regattas and then there will be the four races with a coxed eight representing Sevilla FC and Real Betis. They will be contested in the veteran category (10:35) and youth men (11:15), in both cases over 1,000 metres. There will also be the women (12:00) and men (13:00) which will take place over 6,000 metres.  

The Sevilla crew have four new faces compared to last year. The crew is made up of Mirson Camadro, who has Olympic experience from Tokyo and world sea rowing champion Jaime Canalejo. Patricio Rojas, a bronze medalist in the Rowing World Cup this year; the junior world champions Jorge Flavio Knabe, Juan Miguel Palomino and Pablo Moreno; the internationals Alejandro Vera, Antonio Díaz y Manuel Álvarez, as well as the vetran cox Jacobo Castiñeira. The reserve is Andrés Díaz.

The 55th Sevilla-Betis regatta is organised by the Andalucian Rowing Federation and keeps up its tradition of community work, in this case with the women's mothers cancer association AMAMA Sevilla and the Lions of Guadalquivir. In this way, a crowdfunding campaign has been started where you can donate to the aforementioned charity through the following link: kukumiku.com/proyectos/regata-amama-sevilla.