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The VIII Trofeo Ciudad de Cartagena, III Grand Trophy Spar, this year will have competitors from Belgium, Norway or Russia among about 150 sailors who are expected to participate.
The sporting event was presented this morning at the Consistorial Palace by Councilor for Sports, Ricardo Segado, technical director of the Cartagena Regatta Club, Eduardo Gallego, and the general manager of the Upper Spar group, Luis Navarro.
A competition organized by the Spanish Sailing Federation with the collaboration of the Council of Sports of the City of Cartagena, the Federation of the Region of Murcia and the Club of Regattas of Cartagena, which will be held on 11 and 12 February from At 11 in the morning.
The trophy has already registered more than 120 sailors "which makes it a must to enjoy a beautiful and exciting sporting events that will classify the best boats to qualify for the Regional Championship," said the councilman.
In his speech he took the opportunity to encourage the Cartagena and all those who want to visit the city to go to the port, "one of the best sports venues in Cartagena."
For his part, the technical director of the Regatta Club has indicated that this event has become "one of the star regattas of the season" in which it competes at a very high level, as "there may be the top 15 sailors Of Spain "in this category.
He also explained that the trophy dates change, which in previous editions was held in October, is to achieve the internationalization of the same.
With this it is committed to the winter competitions, a time in which it is difficult to compete in the countries of central and northern Europe, which is intended to bring more activity to the port and the bay.
This process of internationalization of the event is partly thanks to the fact that the race course of the city is very attractive for the climatology and competitive, something that celebrates the director of the group Spar, since it allows the sailors to face people of other Places and continue to achieve the objectives of the agreement with the Cartagena Regatta Club with the Spar group to place a club team in the sailing elite nationally and internationally next year.
A target for which is going well, taking into account that, already last year, 8 of the 11 members of the optimist team of the Region were from Cartagena.
CARTAGENA AS A TECHNICAL CENTER FOR NORDIC COUNTRIES
The internationalization process of this trophy not only seeks to attract foreign teams on the days it is held, but also that in coming years come several weeks or months to train in the port and the bay.
Something that has already materialized through "engagements with the German optimist team and the Polish", and interest from Russian and Czech sailors, Gallego has informed.
The aim is to become a technical center for the Nordic teams as part of the strategy of the Spar southeast sailing team, the team of the Club de Regatas de Cartagena, to be able to compete in the day to day with people of level, and to follow Making it in winter, "a time when we (the sailing teams of southern Esteña) usually rest, but the Nordic countries continue to train in the southeast of Spain" said Gallego.
He has also indicated that these teams usually spend all winter in their training zones.
They rent and even buy houses, they come to visit the families, they have to buy fuel ... so, that these teams go to Cartagena, "would mean a lot of income for the city and for the club, that would reach agreements for the use of its facilities ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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