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Argentina and Uruguay will be playing strong teams in the Rio de la Plata Cup, which will take place between January 9 and 12 at Montoya beach in La Barra de Maldonado, the organization reported in a press release.

One of the big news for 2025 is that they added the longboard category to the competition for the champion country's cup. In the first edition that took place at the beginning of 1, Argentina won.

The teams are as follows:

URUGUAY
1-Lucas Madrid
2-Martin Ottado
3-Sebastian Olarte
4-Matias Nobrega
5-Marco Giorgi
6-Luisma Iturria
7-Santiago Gonzalez
8-Agustin Zanotta

ARGENTINA
1-Leandro Usuna
2-Martin Passeri
3-Thiago Passeri
4-Nacho Gundesen
5-Joaquin Munoz Larreta
6-Franco Radziunas
7-Nazarene Pereira
8-Maximus Petrina

Open ladies
URUGUAY
1-Delfina Morosini
2-Marcela Machado
3-Florence Romei Bown
4-Priscilla Blanco

ARGENTINA
1-Vera Jarisz
2-Vicky Muñoz Larreta
3-Red Pearl
4-Catherine Mercere

Longboard
URUGUAY
1-Ines Beisso
2-Marcela Machado
3-Julian Schweizer
4-Nacho Pignataro

ARGENTINA
1-Amparo Errecalde
2-Evelyn Gontier
3-Nicholas Thomas
4-Surfiel Gil

With the increase in participating surfers, the prize money also increased to $12.500.

“The main thing to highlight about the 2025 edition of the event is that it is being repeated and expanded,” said competitor and co-organizer of the event, Lucas Madrid. “With longboarding, with the Uruguayan circuit stage and a very large increase in the prize pool. For me as a competitor, that was always something that had great importance, mainly because you always had to travel from Uruguay to expensive destinations and the prizes are very motivating,” he added.

Madrid also said: “On the sporting side, we continue to be lucky enough to have surfers who have already become world champions, Olympic surfers, Pan American medalists, Latin champions, both from Argentina and Uruguay, who will be present at the event.”