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The mayor Ana Belén Castejón and councilman David Martínez Noguera received yesterday afternoon, September 6, in the Palace Hall the Spanish National Team of Dragon Boat, which last August won a bronze medal in the European Dragon Boat played in Brandenburg (Germany) from 23 to 26 August.
The boat has been formed mostly by paddlers from the region of Cartagena, being the AD Pinatarense (San Pedro del Pinatar) and the Santa Lucia NPP (Cartagena) the two clubs that contributed the most paddlers to the team on this occasion.
The European Dragon Boat in Brandenburg was held from 23 to 26 last August, and it was attended by delegations from a total of 18 countries, which brought to the event about 2,000 athletes (paddlers), of both sexes and ages between 18 and 65 years old.
With this it is very clear that the Dragon Boat is an inclusive sport, having Open categories, Senior A (over 40 years), Senior B (over 50) and Senior C (over 60 years), and that is one of the few world-class sports that have a mixed category in which women and men compete in the same boat at the same time.
In addition, the team of Santa Lucia has been in second place in the III Championship of Spain Dragon Boat by clubs, which was played last weekend in Asturias.
Another success of the local Dragon Boat, which is slowly growing in number of followers.
The region of Cartagena is a reference within this sport in Spain, being the AD Pinatar (San Pedro del Pinatar) and the Santa Lucia NPP (Cartagena) its maximum exponents.
In Santa Lucia NPP, Cartagena, last weekend, in the Dragon Boat Spain Championship played in Asturias, they were proclaimed runners-up in the ranking of Spanish clubs, endorsing that it is one of the leading clubs in the Dragon Boat in Spain and the first of our city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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