Banyoles Banyoles Banyoles () is a city of 17,309 inhabitants (2006) located in the province of Girona in northeastern Catalonia, Spain. The town is the capital of the Catalan "comarca" "Pla de l'Estany". Although an established industrial centre many of the inhabitants commute to nearby Girona (12 km to the south). Banyoles is most famous for the Lake of Banyoles, a natural lake located in a tectonic depression. It was the venue for the rowing events in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics as well as the "negro of Banyoles", a controversial piece of taxidermy. With a superb natural environment for the practice
Guelph Rowing Club Guelph Rowing Club Guelph Rowing Club (GRC) is a community rowing club located on Guelph Lake, a dammed reservoir on the Speed River, just North of the Ontario, Canada city of Guelph. Rowing has been practised on Guelph Lake since the reservoir's construction in the mid 1970s. The current club was established in 1998 in coordination with the staging of rowing events for that year's Ontario Summer Games. Notable members of the Guelph rowing community over the years include World Champion and Olympic rower Mel LaForme, Tim Briton-Foster as well as other Canadian National Team athletes including Adam Rabalski and