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
Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics women's coxless pairs, coxless fours, and eights. The women's coxless four replaces the men's lightweight coxless four from the previous Games, which is the first change made to the rowing programme since 1996. This was driven by the IOC's desire to seek gender parity and eventually remove all lightweight events. Each competing nation may qualify one boat for each of the fourteen events. The majority of the qualifying berths will be awarded at the 2019 World Rowing Championships, which take place in Ottensheim, Austria between 25 August and 1 September 2019. They are awarded to National Olympic Committees (rather than