The Santa Pola Half Marathon doesn’t want to top it off, it wants to cross all its tracks. The number of participants will not be possible. “There has been an overall decline in test participation at the national level this year,” says Roque Alemañ, president of the Santa Pola Athletic Club. because we remain the regional benchmark and second in the Community of Valencia After the test in Valencia”. More than 5,000 athletes – we almost reached that figure last year – will be next Saturday, January 22, in the 31st-placed test, which will include athletes from more than 20 different nationalities.
Tourist claim
Media de Santa Pola is a big bet for sports and winter tourism, and it “wants to continue to be”. Even beyond our borders. It attracts many foreigners. Realizing that there is room for improvement in the number of international exhibitors, Alemañ explains that “we want to go deeper” on this, so “we will add the rest to attract them”. Actually, “We believe Santa Pola has great potential to grow internationally. We are 5 minutes from the airport and we have a sufficient level of testing and runway to make it attractive”. improve test times. The brilliance of the race places us in the rankings and international journals showing the test outside our borders. We have growth potential, a lot.”
improve data
Determined to boost club records and for this, it is essential to give the quality image of the event “on the line of pure and tough competition” by succeeding in attracting runners who can compete with records such as 59.09 minutes and a few seconds behind in men. world record” points out Alemañ, who has guaranteed it in this edition. “We have athletes who are likely to pass that mark. Let’s hope the circumstances come up and they can reach that time. Going below 59 is practically the world record runner’s level, and that makes the event one of the best standings.”
In the women’s category, “We are in a position to exceed 1 hour and 7 minutes. with a runner with notes below. We hope we can gradually chart these times to approach international records”.
The presentation of the test took place this morning at the Santa Pola town hall. For mayor Loreto Serrano, the half marathon is “the result of the great work of the club and the volunteers who, with all their love, put our town to the fore. It is important to draw attention to the change of the city. off-season for tourists He said this competition is in January and the municipality is committed to continuing to organize sporting events that attract family tourism, which has an impact on commerce, hotels and restaurants in Santa Pola.
At the event, state MP Juan de Dios Navarro emphasized: “The City Council continues to bet on the Media and will continue to do so. Such events beautify the city and we congratulate the City Council and the club for consolidating such an important event.”
Mini Marathon
With the mini marathon for the little ones, the event will count towards Saturday –“They are the future of sports”– and the Corredor fair, which is widely accepted among exhibitors and “which is exceeded every year and we are put on the waiting list of traders to attend”. There will also be an exhibition of the Air Force Parachute Acrobatic Patrol at 10:00 on the 22nd, and fifteen musical groups will entertain the athletes throughout the race. We continue to work to promote the test nationally and to take care of the popular runner and give him the best service. A good quality test with an infrastructure that makes the participant feel important.. Alemañ, this is the way to introduce that popular audience that always accompanies us in the test”, Alemañ concludes.
Source: Informacion
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