Championship

Playoffs

Semi-Finals

Final

Report

The pairing of Elezkano and Zabaleta defeated Peña II and Albisu 22-7 in the Final of the ASPE Pelota Lep.M Pairs Professional Championship in Bilbao on 9th May 2021.

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About Basque Pelota

Pelota is the Traditional Game of the Basque People of Sourthwest France and North Central Iberia (Spain). Their language is the oldest in Europe, and the only non-Indo-European language left in Western Europe according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and therefore with some justification the Basques refere to themselves as the only Native Europeans. The sport is similar to the GAA and European game of Handball, played with a curved glove which is used to propel the ball off one of two perpendicluar walls on a four-sided court, with the other two sides open.

Photo

[3] Picture Credit: Man during a Jai-alai game, typical sport in Basque Country, Spain and some countries of Latin America By Ricardo Hernandez / http://www.shutterstock.com [Internet] Available from: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/man-during-jaialai-game-typical-sport-369691925 [Accessed 2 June 2021]

References

Images

[2] ASPE Pelota (2019)ASPE Pelota Logo [Internet] Available from: https://aspepelota.eus/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/logoEUS.jpg [Accessed 28 August 2019]

Websites

[2] ASPE Pelota (2021) ASPE Pelota Capeonato de Parejas de la Lep.M 2021 [Internet] Available from: https://aspepelota.eus//old/campeonatos/2021parejasprofesional.php [Accessed 3 July 2021]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Kevin Smyth and Enda Fahy.

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Last Updated: 3 July 2021

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