Sports
Despite its relative small size, Pontevedra has a long sporting tradition, with a number of teams competing professionally in different categories. For example:
- Football: Pontevedra CF, playing in the Spanish "Second B" division.
- Handball: SD Teucro, playing in the Spanish Liga ASOBAL (first division). There is also a minor handball team called BM Cisne.
- Indoor football: Leis 26 Pontevedra, playing in the Spanish second division of the Spanish indoor football professional league (LNFS).
- Rugby: Mareantes Rugby Clube Pontevedra, playing in group A of the Spanish first division.
- Volleyball: C. Durán (amateur).
- Waterpolo: CN Pontevedra, playing in the Galician Waterpolo League: .
- Fencing: Club Escola Hungaresa de Esgrima de Pontevedra, founded in 2007, this is the only fencing club in Galicia specialised in sabre. Members of this club compete regularly in the Galician leagues and in the Spanish Sabre Championship.
Pontevedra is the seat of the Centro Galego de Tecnificación Deportiva (High Performance Sporting Centre of Galicia), and it also hosts a number of rowing and canoeing clubs. World and Olympic canoeing champion David Cal used to train in the ria of Pontevedra.
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