The women’s 3×3 basketball team that won Olympic silver in Paris, Movistar Estudiantes as a sports entity and María Durán Heras, who at 71 years old continues playing basketball in the Municipal Sports Games, were among those awarded at the 2024 Champions Gala. which the Madrid City Council celebrated on Friday, November 22 in tribute to female athletes.
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The Champions Gala, which was born in 2019, seeks to recognize the careers of athletes, women’s clubs and major sporting events starring women. The sixth edition, which was held on Friday, November 22 at the Caja de Música Auditorium in Centrocentro, included among its attendees the head of the Delegated Sports Area, Sonia Cea; the delegate councilor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ángel Niño; the councilor of Tetuán, Paula Gómez-Angulo, and the president of the Madrid Basketball Federation, Santos Moraga.
Precisely, basketball was one of the protagonists of the Gala with the awards for women’s team 3×3 (Success in team sport), the Movistar Students (Entity linked to sports practice) and Maria Duran Heras (Consistency in sports practice). At 71 years old, María has been playing basketball for 56 seasons, the last 25 in the Municipal Sports Games, as she told in this interview on the FBM website.
There were also recognitions for the women’s water polo and artistic swimming teamsParalympic athletes Sara Martínez Puntero y Alba García Falagánthe canoeist María Corbera Muñozthe journalist Chus Galanlos Municipal Sports Gamesthe young rower Marina Manzanares y Sacramento Moyanopioneer of judo in Spain.
