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This weekend will be held in Cartagena World Championship Aesthetic Gymnastics junior group and category III women's World Cup, during the days 23, 24 and 25 May.
According to the Councillor for Sports, Alonso Gómez, organizing such events Cartagena shows open to the world through Aesthetic Gymnastics, as evidenced by the number of countries that visit us from Europe and the United States, whose representatives hope they also know the tourist part of town, with all its ancient riches.
In total, twenty teams participating in junior category and sixteen women, from Bulgaria (winner of World Cup 2006), Canada, Denmark, France, Estonia (Champion 2007), Finland (winner in 2006), Poland Czech Republic Russia, Ukraine and Spain, with 600 participants, including gymnasts, coaches, judges and delegates.
Cartagena participates in the World Championship with two teams from the city, the Rhythm Club Cartagena with a junior team (13 to 16 years) and Category Women Team Rhythmic Club Cartagena, who won bronze in the last Championship of Spain in Madrid.
The competition begins on Friday, May 23, with formal training, continues on Saturday 24 with the opening ceremony, at 15.30 hours, followed by the preliminaries, and ends on Sunday 25 May with the finals from of 10.30 am and the closing and awards ceremony at 13.00 hours.
The exhibitions will take place at the Municipal Sports Pavilion and 5,000 tickets available to School.
The price is 3 euros for children up to 14 years (5 euros if they are two days) and 5 euros for adults (7 euros for two days).
In parallel, complementary events have been organized to offer more visiting teams and guests, such as a welcome party, sightseeing around the city and La Manga and the organization of Research on healthy aspects gymnasts aesthetics, collaboration with the International Federation, the Sports Council and the University of Murcia.
HISTORY OF AESTHETIC GROUP GYMNASTICS
Aesthetic gymnastics took place between 1800-1900 with the gymnastic movement that was based on theories of Ling and Swedish gymnastics, has been developing for more than 100 years in Finland and is now being implemented throughout Europe.
It is based on natural and fluid movements that put special attention on the health of the gymnasts.
Cartagena has become a pioneer of this discipline in the region, being present in various competitions since 2 years ago.
Our gymnasts participated in the World Cup in Bulgaria in November 2006, earning the 12th position, and the World Cup in Prague in April 2007, ranked number 15.
On 6 May I welcome the School Championship Aesthetic Group Gymnastics at the Municipal Sports Pavilion, organized by the Sports Council in collaboration with the Association of Aesthetic Gymnastics in the region, which is based in the city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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