Lake of Banyoles training location for many foreign rowers, particularly English rowers. It was also the site for the 1991 Junior World Rowing Championships. Lake of Banyoles Lake of Banyoles (or Estany de Banyoles) is a natural lake located in the "comarca" "Pla de l'Estany", Province of Girona, in northeastern Catalonia, Spain. It is named after the nearby town of Banyoles, to which it belongs entirely. On the western shore it borders with the town of Porqueres. The lake is approximately 2,100 m by 750 m with an average depth of 15 m that in several points gets down to 46.4 metres. It
World Rowing Championships Olympic years, the World Rowing Junior Championships are held at the same time. In 2002 adaptive rowing events were introduced for the following classes of disability: LTA (legs, trunk and arms), TA (trunk, arms), and A (arms-only). In 2009 the A category was replaced by AS (arms and shoulders), and an ID (intellectually disabled) category was added (but then removed after the 2011 Championships). From 2017 the designations AS, TA, and LTA have been changed to PR1, PR2, and PR3. Rowing takes place in 21 different boat classes, apart from during Olympic years when only non-Olympic boat classes race. National