Unai Naranjo and Alejandro Ríos are chosen the best athletes of the year at the XXXI Local Gala

The athletes Unai Naranjo Mateo and Alejandro Ríos Galindo They have been recognized as the best athletes of the year at the XXXI Local Sports Gala, in which the Municipal Board of Trustees awarded one hundred and twenty individual, special and regional champions and promotion prizes at the Municipal Auditorium.

Unai Naranjo Mateo He has earned the absolute prize after winning bronze in the world cross-country championship with the Spanish team and twelfth place in the individual world and finalist in the 3,000-meter dash in the Spanish championship, runner-up in Spain.

Besides, Alejandro Rios Galindohas been recognized as the best promising athlete after proclaiming himself champion of Spain on the indoor and outdoor track in the 600-meter dash and champion of Spain outdoors in the national federations.

An act presented by journalists Julio Garcia and Cecilia Lopez and which featured a batukada and the participation of María de Gracia Serrano, a young deaf and mute from the Fuente Agria Sports Club. A commemorative video was also projected to commemorate and pay homage to people related to sports who died since the last local sports gala held in 2019.

A city rich in sport

Mayor, Adolfo Munizaffirmed that Puertollano is a city rich in sports, which energizes it, makes it a focus of attraction that reverts to the local economy and that sports is its flag and hallmark, as was Francisco Sánchez Menor, father of the Chorizo ​​race.

Muñiz He pointed out that the City Council, through the Municipal Sports Board, directly reaches 8,000 users, through clubs, sports schools, adult courses and subscribers.

A city, said the mayor, that has top-level sporting events, such as the aforementioned chorizo ​​race, the school mini-Olympics, pioneers in Spain, the Luis Casimiro basketball tournament, the half marathon, the Zenagas Trail, the day of the cycling, the Spanish master swimming championship, the Santo Voto tennis tournament or the equality cup, with which “the importance of the role of women in sport is made clear”.

The winners

In athletics, Nahum Gregorio Mediavilla, María Pilar Sánchez Díaz, Marta Gómez Siller and Jaime Jiménez González (Puertollano Athletics Club) were awarded; Carlos Rey Fernández, María Luna Ortiz, Claudia Sánchez Ruiz and Pablo Machuca Monroy (Puertollano Brand Athletics); Luis Fernando Giménez Giménez, Isabel Morales González, Juan Manuel Hervás Coronel and Patricia Pedrero Gallego (popular and trail athletics).

In basketball, Angel Colonel Gutierrez, Angela Coleto and Tomás Castellanos Naranjo; in bowling, Julian Ruiz Nieva and Yolanda Mozos Munoz; in handball, Jaime Moral Lillo, Gema Avila Obeda and Susana Aguilar Molero; in cycling, Jose Luis Delgado Munoz, Ivan Santos Moreno, and in cycling, Paz Gomez Mansilla.

In soccer, Javier Carrasco Núñez, David Vera Morales and Celia Silva Baos (Atlético Puertollano) have received awards; Juan Francisco Lucio Pérez, Sara Ruiz del Valle; Adrián Sáez Ciudad and María Alfaro Calso (Calvo Sotelo); Alba Peña Copa, Alejandra Villaverde Saura, Francisco Javier Elbar Díaz, Sergio Naranjo Pardo and Jesús Gómez Delgado (indoor soccer).

In aerobic gymnastics, Andrea Rubio Sanz, Alma Chamero Vozmediano and Gonzalo Trujillo Tristancho; in judo and jiu jitsu, David Sánchez Huertas; Aitana Villanueva Castellano, Carlos Moreno Silva and Aitana Gutiérrez Sabater; in swimming, Daniel Toledano Villaverde, Claudia García Ocaña, Hugo Molina Prieto and Marina Rayo Ruiz

In paddle tennis, Eduardo and Javier Romero Rodríguez; in table tennis, Alex Torrico Fernández and Alvaro Serrano Hidalgo, in tennis, Pablo Peñalvo Cañizares, Paola Giner Ruiz, Jorge Pareja Nieto and Carla González Pulgarín; in archery, José Antonio Izquierdo del Castillo, Agustina Talavera Peco, Jara Nieto García; in sport fishing, Alejandro Espinosa Labanda, in volleyball, Javier Guzmán Pérez, Alberto Barato Lindo and Claudia Lozano Gómez.

regional champions

The regional champions and promotion to Calvo Sotelo for women, Wheelchair Basketball, Petanque Club and Table Tennis have also been recognized.

A gala in which the integration work of the Fuente Agria Sports Club has been highlighted through the awards of Víctor Molina Jurado, María José Torres, Julián Asensio and María de Gracia Serrano Segura, and of the Paralympic Club with Nicolás Castillejos Barrera, Deyanira Hidalgo García, Pedro López Moreno and Orxana Poyatos Mansilla.

special prizes

A XXXI Sports Gala in which the sports journalists Ramón Pizarro Ruiz, who has been deputy director of sports for RTVE and an all-rounder on-screen commentator, and Manuel Barrios Carrasco, deputy director of the newspaper As, in charge of digital strategy, have also been recognized. of the newspaper, digital content distribution and its international expansion.

They have also received special awards, the Puertollano Swimming Club for fifty years of sports activity; the Caminos y Cañadas club for its promotion of cycling tourism; the founding members of the Pozo Norte Club Marisol Gijón Rivilla and Marcos López Montero; the Tronchacerros club, the Fuente Agria sports club for its commitment to integration;

An edition in which the athletes Francisco Javier Martín Merino, Agustín Luchena Molina, Víctor Castro Mateo, Jane Muñoz Gil and Hugo Bermejo Cruz and the referees Francisco Sáncho Lozano and Dámaso Arcediano Monescillo, the coach Francisco Rodríguez Jurado and futsal player were awarded prizes David Duque González; Sheila García Calvillo, Aitana Hernández Castro, Claudia Hernández Castro and Cynthia López Santos in kickboxing; Miguel Angel Martín Guijarro in archery, Marta Francés Gómez in triathlon, Nayra Solís Rodríguez and Susana Ávila Ubeda in handball.

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