8th edition of the Santas’ Regatta on Sunday December 17th

On Sunday December 17th from 9.30am the yearly Santa’s regatta on the Grand Canal organized by Ca’ Foscari took place for the eighth time. Women and men champions and amateurs will challenge each other on traditional Venetian rowing boats, ‘mascarete’, dressed as Santa from San Marco (Pietà) to Ca’ Foscari. A water parade with traditional boats - ‘bissone’ and ‘caorline’ - and dragon boats followed the regatta.
At the end of this special day, the winners received their awards at the Fondaco dei Tedeschi which collaborated to the Christmas initiative.

The programme of the day:

9.30am, the participants meet up at Ca’ Foscari dressed up as Santa to set up their boats
10.00am, start of the race from Ca’ Foscari to San Marco
10.30am, Race and water parade, while a boat will carry Santa from T Fondaco dei Tedeschi on the Grand Canal to Ca’ Foscari

From the main building of the university the parade continued to the T Fondaco dei Tedeschi, partner of Ca’ Foscari in organizing the race. The awards of the regate were held at the 4th floor of the store together with a toast to share Christmas wishes and the distribution of gifts to the employees’ children.

The event was sponsored by the City of Venice that coordinated the regatta from Ca’ Foscari to Rialto where the boats docked, and councilman Giovanni Giusto and Rector’s delegate for sport Maria Antonietta Baldo welcomed the rowers. The ceremony ended at T Fondaco dei Tedeschi.

Here are the participating Santas:

Champion category: Amedeo Damiano, Maurizio Molin, Antonio Trombetta,Lorenzo Bizio

Amateur category: Vincenzo Colla, Marco Zanella, Claudio Girardi, Marc Gulliver, Roberto Caveagna, Marc Guillemot

Women category: Cristina Montin, Natalia Smykunova, Jane Caporal, Rossana Nardo, Luigina Davanzo, Vally Zanella

For more information:  sport@unive.it