Between November 9 and 28, the first National Youth Games will be held in the Coffee Region in which young Colombian sports talents will be able to compete in 35 Olympic and 12 Paralympic disciplines.
These competitions, which are held in the country for the first time, were created by Decree 1052 of 2022, with the purpose of consolidating the training of new talents, giving them the opportunity to show their skills and expanding the seedbed of possible representatives of the country in international competitions.
Starting this year, the jousts will constitute the beginning of the national sports cycle. The athletes who will eventually represent the country at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games and the Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games will be able to come from there.
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The cities of Pereira, Armenia and Manizales are already ready to receive more than 5 thousand athletes. Some of the competitions will also be held in Cali, Calima El Darién, Buenaventura, Bogota and Nilo, Cundinamarca.
To date, the Government has invested $65 billion to make these competitions an opportunity for inclusion and equity.
The disciplines that will be in competition, at the Olympic level, are archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, handball, softball, baseball, bowling, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, water skiing, soccer, gymnastics, golf, judo, karate do, weightlifting, wrestling, swimming, skating, racquetball, rugby sevens, surfing, squash, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, triathlon, sailing, volleyball and sport climbing, the latter will be an exhibition.
The 12 disciplines at the Paralympic level are Para archery, Para athletics, Para badminton, boccia, blind football, PC football, Para cycling, visual judo, Para swimming, Para powerlifting, Para table tennis and wheelchair tennis. All convened under the 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games program.
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As a novelty, this will be the first time that the Olympic disciplines will be held simultaneously with the Paralympic ones, a model that has never been seen in multi-sport events in Colombia.
The event seeks to promote essential values such as discipline, respect, teamwork and resilience, contribute to the comprehensive development of young participants and promote the regionalization of sport, promoting healthy competition between departments to present their best exponents.
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