Student Championships: from 23 to 26 May Orientation and Trail-O Running, Badminton and Parabadminton
From 23 to 26 May 710 students and 250 accompanying teachers will be between Alpe Cimbra and Rovereto to compete in the national final of the student championships in the Corsa Oriiente and Trail-O specialties, orienteering for people with disabilities, and Badminton and Parabadminton.
«Folgaria, Lavarone and Luserna, as well as Rovereto, will host a thousand young people with their companions from all over Italy for a few days: this is an important opportunity to make these splendid areas of our Trentino known with their peculiarities. Without considering that the many boys and girls present are planning visits to the cultural beauties of our territory, from Mart to the Campana dei Caduti, from Casa Depero to Base Tuono, from Forte Belvedere to MUSE. An event of national importance, in the name of sport, in what aims to be an open and inclusive competition. In fact, competitions are scheduled for athletes with disabilities and routes that can also be done by non-ambulatory people. And we believe that this is really the best sign ». These were the words of the councilors for education, university and culture, Mirko Bisesti, and to the craftsman, trade, promotion and sport Roberto Failoni.
Today in Lavarone the presentation of the event organized by the Province – Department of Education and Culture was held, under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, and financed by Miur and Trentino Marketing. The initiative sees the collaboration and patronage of the territories involved, namely the Municipalities of Folgaria, Lavarone and Luserna, the Community of Alpe Cimbra, the Municipality of Rovereto, Coni Trento and the local Apt.
In addition to the provincial councilors Bisesti and Failoni, there were also: Roberto Ceccato, general manager of the Education Department; Paola Deiana, director of the school sports policy office of the Miur; Paola Mora, president of CONI Trento; Nicola Bort, president of the Apt Alpe Cimbra; Sergio Anesi, national president of the Sports Orientation Federation; Massimo Bernardoni, president of the Italian Paralympic Committee Trentino Alto Adige; Maria Angela Scaglioni provincial delegate of the Badminton Federation representing Carlo Beninati.
The manager Deiana hoped that the initiative could serve to “recover sociality and sport”, highlighting how sport represents “a cultural asset to be grown”, along the same lines as the provincial executive Ceccato who, in recalling the unanimity of actors involved in the organization, highlighted how the event aims precisely “to make children meet again” after the long pandemic, while President Mora spoke of a happy synthesis “between school and sport”. Then the president of the Apt Bort explained the “vocation of the territory to host events of this importance, which aims to become the” official home “for the orienteering race” with dedicated and permanent routes. Finally Bernardoni recalled how events of this importance sanction “the privileged relationship of the Paralympic Committee with the world of school”, finally Anesi and Scaglioni spoke of an event that will give a lot to sport in general, a starting point after the emergency from Coronavirus.
The competition will take place from 23 to 26 May 2022; the institutional moments are scheduled in the late afternoon of May 24, with a parade of the regions and inaugural ceremony in Piazza Marconi in Folgaria and intervention by the authorities, swearing by athletes and technicians, flag raising, anthem of Italy sung by pupils of the IC Folgaria -Lavarone-Luserna and ignition of the tripod. The Orienteering races will take place in the Folgaria woods, while the Trail-O, that is for orienteering for people with disabilities, will be held on terrain that can also be walked on for non-ambulatory people (wheelchairs); the Badminton and Parabadminton competitions (Badminton for people with disabilities) will take place in the sports halls of Folgaria and Rovereto. On 25 May in the evening there will be the award ceremony of the delegations and a “farewell party”, also in Piazza Marconi in Folgaria.
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