Near 10 thousand athletes of performance and high performance of the capital of the country will participate, from January and until next April, in the Children’s, Youth and Paralympic Sports Games From Mexico City 2021-2022.
The event will be selective rumbo to the regionals, and in some cases in direct pass to the 2022 CONADE Nationals; at the same time, it will serve to form the preselections of the Mexican capital towards the next sports fair.
At the moment, only the squash discipline has carried out its selection process, which it carried out the first week of December 2021.
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The calls for the different sports can be consulted on the website of the Sports Institute: https://indeporte.cdmx.gob.mx/informate/convocatoria
The calendar of events is yet to be defined. The programs, venues and sports facilities of the events will be designated by the respective association.
Between the outstanding athletes from the capital There are medalists from the 2021 Cali-Valle Junior Pan American Games such as diver María José Sánchez; the winner of the State Sports Award of Mexico City 2021, the gymnast Ricardo Omar Torres; in athletics, Yara Samantha Amador in 400 meters hurdles; the skater Valeria Enriqueta Idiaquez; the triathlete Eduardo Núñez; squash player Leonel Cárdenas and rower Yordi Gutiérrez.
In adapted sports, among the most popular names are Mario Andrés Chessani; blind and visually impaired, José Adrián Anaya and Isaac Yves Romero; special athletes, Brisa Lizbeth Castrejón, Alicia Estrada Rojas, cerebral palsy, and Guie Xhuuba Ruíz, deaf.
Participating disciplines
The sports that will be in competition are: open water, chess, athletics, badminton, basketball, 3×3 basketball, baseball, bowling, boxing, boating, cycling, diving, fencing, fronton, association football, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline gymnastics and handball.
Like field hockey, judo, karate, weightlifting, partner wrestling, artistic swimming, swimming, roller skates, modern pentathlon, water polo, racquetball, rowing, rugby, softball, squash, taekwondo, table tennis, tennis , sport shooting, archery, triathlon, volleyball and beach volleyball
While the disciplines in adapted sport will be:
- Blind and visually impaired: athletics, swimming, soccer, football and chess, the latter will be the first time that I participate in the games as a discipline in adapted sport.
- Cerebral palsy: athletics, boccia, and cycling
- Wheelchair: athletics, basketball, sports dance, powerlifting, swimming and table tennis
- Deaf: athletics
- Special athletes: athletics, swimming and table tennis.
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