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A total of 200 children between eleven and twelve years old will participate in the VI National Tournament "Playing athletics" to be held in San Javier 29 and May 30, 2010.
Participants representing 38 schools in Spain, 18 of which participate in the men and 18 in the female category.
The Murcia region is represented with four teams in San Javier, one male and female, the Virgin of Loreto College to be the regional champions and other two hosts, Severo Ochoa school for boys and girls La Paz.
The celebration of the Tournament in San Javier's been released this morning in the municipality of San Javier on the town councilman of Deportes, José Angel Noguera with the director general of Sport, Antonio Penalver, president of the Athletics Federation of Murcia, Rosendo Berenguier, and the technical area director of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation, José García Grossocordón.
Alongside them, a prominent athlete has appeared regionally, Bertran Alcaraz.
The tournament will be played on Saturday May 29th at the sports center of San Javier with a qualifying round from 10:30 am to 13:30 that will give way to the finals starting at 16:30 h.
On Sunday 30 May there is the most festive part of this initiative moves to the esplanade Barnuevo of Santiago de la Ribera.
The new scenario, the sea will host the "Relay of Friendship", a relay race with teams from all participating regions formed by children, teachers and even parents.
At the same time held a kind of tourism fair with the exhibition of local products and tourist information on each participating community.
José García Grossocordón, representative of the Spanish Athletics Federation, said precisely that it is a tournament with a festive in which children create bonds of friendship and contact with other children in other parts of Spain, beyond the competitive section " .
Playing athletics program began in 2005 with 3,000 participants and last year 22,000 children mobilized.
The goal of the tournament is to introduce more young people in athletics, making it look like a team sport and develop different qualities.
Without bringing the athletic younger adults, said Jose Garcia, who thanked the work of both the regional federation "pioneer in this tournament, and the Autonomous Community and the municipality of San Javier in organizing the event.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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