Club de Regatas Corrientes, usually just Regatas Corrientes, is a sports club of Corrientes, Argentina, located on the river side of the

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. Although Regatas was born as a rowing institution, the club is mostly recognized due to its basketball team, which plays in the Liga Nacional de Básquet (Argentine first division). Its home stadium is the

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, that holds 5,000 people. Apart from basketball, the club hosts a large variety of sports such as rowing, association football, cestoball, chess, gymnastics, judo,

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, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, volleyball and weight lifting.

History

The club was founded on September 27, 1923, by a group of enthusiastic

rowers Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...

and swimmers. The first president was Dr. José Chapo. At the beginning, the Regatas had few members and a large beach over the

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coast. The institution was expanding itself developing activities such as rowing, swimming and sailing ship. Some of the most relevants sailors of that time were Antonio Leconte, the Miholvisevich Brothers, Fages and Ismael Condado, all of them representing Regatas in diverse competitions. Other clubs that also participated were Club de Regatas de Resistencia ( Chaco), Club Náutico de Formosa (

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), Náutico de Monte Caseros ( Corrientes), Náutico de Eldorado ( Misiones), Rowing Club de Posadas and the Paraguayan clubs Deportivo de Puerto Sajonia and Mbigua. During the 70's, Regatas incorporated a lot of new members, who came attracted by its beach where they could spend long periods of time during Summertime. The club received also funds from the Government used to build a roofed stadium,

, which was able for the practice of basketball and volleyball and had a capacity of 2,600 seats."Historia del Club de Regatas Corrientes"
In 2008, Regatas won the Liga Sudamericana defeating Flamengo 3–2 (in matches won) in the final.

Players

Current roster

Notable players

Nicolas Brussino Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to: People Given name * Nicolas (given name) Mononym * Nicolas (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer * Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer Surname Nicolas * Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–1774), ...

(2012–2015) *

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(2019)

Honours

National

* Liga Nacional de Básquet (1):: 2012–13 * Copa Argentina de Básquet (1):: 2007

International

* Liga Sudamericana (2):: 2008, 2012 * FIBA Americas League (1):: 2010–11

References

External links

Official website
{{Liga Nacional de Básquet Basketball teams in Argentina Basketball teams established in 1923 Rowing clubs in Argentina