Aesthetic Group Gymnastics is a sport whose origin is in the Nordic countries, the nineteenth century and practiced mainly women, as recounted today the Councillor for Sports, José Cabezas, during the presentation of which will be one of the events major sporting year in Cartagena, the final of the Cup of Spain Aesthetic Group Gymnastics, competition scoring for Phase III Phase I 2011 and 2012, held on 17 and December 18 at the Central Pavilion of Sports .
For the Department, this is a very important sporting event in the city, because in this mode, Cartagena is a pioneer not only in the region, but in Spain and now in the municipal school there are already 120 girls and young skateboarders, stated José Cabezas.
Today Friday will begin arriving the 250 athletes who will participate this weekend in the championship, a total of 27 teams in junior class, junior and women from eight regions, like Madrid, Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia and Murcia, the latter community featuring four top teams: Aesthetic Club Cartagena, Cartagena San Anton Club Gymnastics, Rhythmic Club Cartagena and Murcia Gymnos'85 Club.
As for the competition program, this afternoon, 16 to 20 hours, will begin training.
On Saturday, 17 December at 15.45 hours will be held the opening ceremony, fighting after the preliminaries, and Sunday 18, starting at 10 am will be held the final closing expected to be around 13.00 hours.
As a parallel activity, both for participants and accompanying persons are invited to visit the city, harbor and our rich heritage and archeology.
In the presentation, together with the Councillor for Sports, have also been the president of the Spanish Association of Aesthetic Group Gymnastics, Tatiana Miroshnychenko, and the vowel of the Autonomous Federation, María del Mar Sánchez, a federation has been operating since 2010 .
CAREER HIGH COST OF POPULAR
The Councillor for Sports, José Cabezas, has made ​​clear that the reason for the suspension of the San Silvestre, popular race that runs through the old city on the last Sunday of the year, is primarily economic.
According to Cabezas, Sports is not immune to the crisis, are difficult times and cuts are inevitable, so we will delete events in the city sports that involve high costs that can not cope, as is the case of Half Marathon and the San Silvestre, who not only put four cones and there you are also overtime, police, trophies, doctors, ambulances, supplies, and so on.
The Councillor for Sports has also declared its intention to contact the Athletics Club to hold a meeting next Monday and open a discussion with them about the fun runs.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena