The Insular Athletics Center of Fuerteventura will host next weekend, May 31 and June 1, the Spanish Combined Events Championship. This competition, organized by the City Council of La Oliva, through the Department of Sports, led by Gleiber Carreño, hand in hand with the RFEA (Royal Spanish Athletics Federation), the FCA (Federación Canaria de Atletismo) and FIAF (Federación Insular de Atletismo de Fuerteventura) with the collaboration of the Cabildo Insular de Fuerteventura, becomes the first national event of this kind to be held on the island.
Thus, Corralejo will be the venue for two days of this competition that will be held by teams of the Autonomous Federations, where 8 communities with 6 athletes will compete for the podium. It should also be noted that 4 athletes from each community (2 boys and 2 girls) will score. The participating autonomous communities will be Galicia, Basque Country, Madrid, Valencia, Andalusia, Murcia and the Canary Islands, where the athletes will do a decathlon, while the female athletes will do a heptathlon.
It should also be noted that Paola Sarabia and Eduardo Figueroa, both residents of Corralejo, along with Juan Manuel Hernandez, an athlete from Puerto del Rosario, who are part of the Canary Islands Federation and are canteranos of the local club C.D. Maxoathlon Fuerteventura, will participate in this contest. Likewise, the championship will also count with the participation of the current Spanish indoor champions, the Valencian Alba Ramirez and the Catalan Pol Ferrer.
The mayor of La Oliva, Isaí Blanco, highlights the role of sport in the municipality: “The celebration of the Spanish Combined Events Championship is a reflection of the sport that moves in our island. Fuerteventura brings with it a history of reference athletes in their respective modalities such as Paola Sarabia or Eduardo Figueroa, a pride not only for our municipality, but also for the national sport. The recent opening of the Island Athletics Center enables a place where these athletes can train while opening the doors to national competitions in order to consider the majorero territory as a suitable place for holding these sporting events.”
In turn, the Councillor for Sports, Luis González, highlighted the historic milestone of holding, for the first time in Fuerteventura, an absolute national championship in athletics. It is important to highlight, continued the counselor, “the bet that at the time made the Cabildo, in coordination with the City Council of La Oliva, to have an island athletics center in the north of the island. A strategic and first class infrastructure that has served to attract major sporting events.” “It will allow the development not only of our Majorero athletes, but also to take advantage of opportunities such as the one now offered by the Spanish Athletics Federation”.
For his part, the Councillor for Sports, Gleiber Carreño, says: “For the City Council and, in particular, for the Department is proud that La Oliva hosts this first championship of Spain in the form of Athletics in the history of our island. Undoubtedly, the event reinforces our will to continue with the promotion of sports tourism in the municipality, a binomial of vital importance and in which we have been working since the beginning of the legislature. We also want to thank the Cabildo Insular for the collaboration in the implementation and improvement of the infrastructure of the center, as the quality and service of these facilities is what makes possible the celebration of this national event in Fuerteventura.”
Finally, the president of the Canarian Athletics Federation and member of the governing board of the Spanish Athletics Federation, Pablo de los Santos, says: “This is an opportunity for the Canarian sport and especially on the island of Fuerteventura because since 2008 we do not celebrate a championship of Spain in the Canary Islands, and now will be held in these wonderful facilities inaugurated this year with a championship of the Canary Islands. This is undoubtedly the crowning of a spectacular year from the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. In addition, we also want to thank the authorities, the Cabildo and the City Council of La Oliva for everything they have done and continue to do and especially for welcoming us to this event to be held this weekend in which the best athletes will be present at national level combined events. Some of the athletes who have confirmed their participation in the event are looking for their mark to participate in Tokyo this year so it will be a weekend with good competition among athletes.”
