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The awards ceremony will be on April 11 |

The player of the Unicaja Almeria of volleyball, Jorge Almansa, and the taekwondo player, Paula Vergara, are the best Cartagena athletes of 2018. This is what the jury decided, after deliberating in a meeting held at the Palace Hall, on Thursday March 21, which was attended by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, and the councilor for Sports, Manuel Mora.

In addition, the swimming coach, Margarita Cabezas, has also been awarded.

Among other awards, the Best Event has been awarded to the Fuente del Sapo Rise.

Jorge Almansa, Cartagena's best athlete of the year, has been a league champion with Unicaja Almeria volleyball.

For her part, the taekwondo player Paula Vergara, the best local athlete of 2019, finished fifth in the World Championship.

In addition to these two distinctions, the Salesian Basketball School has been named the best base club for its 30 years of experience.

The prizes to be granted are the following:

Best Sports Sponsor: Jimbo Fresh.

Best Base Club: Salesianos Basketball School.

Best Club of National Category: Cartagena Martial Arts Club.

Best Male Athlete: Jorge Almansa (Volleyball).

Best Female Athlete: Paula Vergara (Taekwondo).

Best Revelation Sportsman: Pablo Díaz Morales (Athlete) and Barbara Rodríguez Martín (Vela).

Best Trainer: Margarita Cabezas Hurtado (Swimming).

Best Teaching Center: CEIP Santiago Apóstol (Miranda).

Best Sports Event: XXV Ascent to the Fuente del Sapo.

Best Sports Trajectory: Daniel Sánchez Espejo (Runner).

To the best Sports Spirit: José Nicolás Uribe (Ultrafondista).

Best Research Work in Sport: Alfonso Martínez Moreno (Faculty of Sports Science (UMU)).

Special mentions: Football Association of Cartagena and Region (AFCT), Sport Club Primi Sport, Julián García Maldonado posthumously (Montañero), Winds of Cartagena-Dragon Boat, Ángel Gómez Sánchez (Runner), Sport in the Rural Areas Trails of the West Zone (VIII Duathlon Cross Mills Marfagones, VI Burro Trail of Perin, VIII Popular Race La Azohía-Isla Plana).

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena