The mayor of Cartagena, José López, and the Councilor for Sports, Ricardo Segado, received this morning at the Consistorial Palace, Diego Perez Meroño, a member of the Yacht Club of Santa Lucia, who proclaimed the U21 World Champion in the Individual and team category in the Mar-Costacelebrado Sports Fishing Championship last October at the beaches of Pinar and Gurugú in Castellón.
Accompanying Diego Pérez, the president and the member of Fishing of the Club Naútico Santa Lucia, Diego Varela and Gustavo Fortea, attended the reception, respectively.
López has congratulated the athlete for the great achievement achieved, as well as thanking him for the work done by his club thanks to his sports successes.
The first mayor has encouraged Perez to continue along the same path and continue to leave high the name of Cartagena in the upcoming sporting challenges that await.
Likewise, Ricardo Segado, councilor of Sports, has ensured that Cartagena in many of its sports modalities live very sweet moments, as is the case of fishing.
In the same way, he has wanted to repeat many times more this success that supposes a tremendous pride for both his club and the City.
For his part, Diego Perez, stressed the importance of supporting sports such as fishing, thanking the mayor for his courtesy to receive him at the Palace Hall and his support shown both to his person and in general to his club.
Diego Perez, a nineteen-year-old student of agricultural engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, was one of the great winners of the sixteenth edition of the World Championship of Sport Fishing, far exceeding the results of his first World Cup in Holland, Where he finished in twelfth place.
Previously, in his record already there were remarkable successes as the national subchampionship obtained in the Championship of Spain of Oropesa of Sea of ​​2014.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena