Editing Cantabria (section)

==Sports==
[[File:Regata Pedreña.JPG|thumb|200px|''Trainera'' regatta at the [[Santander bay]]]]

The traditional sport of Cantabria is the game of ''bolos''<ref>{{in lang|es}} [http://www.ayto-selaya.com/index.php?a=vbohis History of the ''Bolos'' in Cantabria.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703225846/http://www.ayto-selaya.com/index.php?a=vbohis |date=3 July 2013 }} Selaya Township website. Retrieved on 5 August 2007.</ref> ([[skittles (sport)|skittles]]) in its four forms: ''[[bolo palma]]'', ''pasabolo tablón'', ''pasabolo losa'' and ''bolo pasiego''. The first one is the most widespread, exceeding regional nature and reaching the eastern zone of Asturias and also being the most complex in its game rules. The existence of ''boleras'' or skittle rings is important in every Cantabrian township, often being near the church or the village pub. Since the late 1980s, skittle play has consolidated with the reinforcement of skittle schools, revamped by different town councils and Cantabrian institutions, various competitions, and media coverage.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

The remo ([[rowing (sport)|rowing]]) is a very traditional sport in the coastal towns. The origins of rowing in Cantabria go back many centuries, when several ''[[trainera]]s'' (traditional fishing [[longboat]]s) competed for the selling of the caught fish, which was reserved for the first ship to arrive to the [[fish market]]. At the end of the 19th century, work became sport and people started to celebrate [[regatta]]s between Cantabrian townships. The sport clubs of Cantabria, especially the [[Sociedad Deportiva de Remo Astillero|Astillero]], [[Sociedad Deportiva de Remo Castro Urdiales|Castro Urdiales]], and the [[Sociedad Deportiva de Remo Pedreña|Pedreña]] belong to the most prize-winning teams of the history of this sport, and nowadays they are having one of the best moments after a decades-long period of trophy drought.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

[[File:Palacio de los Deportes de Santander.jpg|300x300px|thumb|left|Santander Sports Palace: a basketball game featuring the local team, the ''[[Cantabria Lobos]]'' (wolves).]]
The Pasiegan jump is another of the outstanding rural sports of the region and a clear example of how the use of a work skill that disappears with the pass of time, gives rise to games and competition. Similar to other forms, like the [[Salto del pastor|Canarian shepherd jump]], in the beginning this technique was used in the Pasiegan valleys to cross the stone walls, the fences, the creeks or the ravines that bordered the fields and obstructed the pass in the abrupt geography of the highland areas of Cantabria.

Referring to mass sports, Cantabria is present in national and international competitions through teams such as the ''[[Racing de Santander]]'', the ''[[RS Gimnástica de Torrelavega]]'' and the [[Cantabria autonomous football team]] in [[Football in Spain|football]]  or the ''[[Independiente RC]]'' in [[División de Honor de Rugby|rugby union]]. The ''[[CB Cantabria|Club Balonmano Cantabria]]'' that won [[Liga ASOBAL|Leagues]] and [[Copa del Rey de Balonmano|King's Cups]] as well as [[IHF Super Globe]], [[EHF Champions League]], [[EHF Cup Winners' Cup]] and [[EHF Cup]] in [[team handball|handball]] or the [[Cantabria Baloncesto|Cantabria Lobos]] that played in the [[Liga ACB|ACB]] in [[basketball]] represented the highest level of the Cantabrian sport in the recent past.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}