For the fourth consecutive day, sport and fun have filled Arroyomolinos through ‘Climbing Madrid‘, he macro climbing festival jointly organized by Indoorwall y Iberian Presswith the support of the Community of Madrid and the local City Council, and which is being held between June 10 and 16.
An institutional support that has been evident this Thursday with the presence of Alberto Tométhe General Director of Community Sports and Marta Cenamor, Sports Councilor of Arroyomolinos. After measuring her skills on the impressive bouldering wall, Tomé pointed out that this project reflects the determined “bet” of the regional government to “continue attracting large events like this to the region.”
“For the Community of Madrid it is”a pride to become the epicenter of climbing“, not only nationally, but also worldwide thanks to the immense level of all those climbers who are going to meet this weekend in Arroyomolinos,” stressed the regional Sports Director. Along the same lines, Cenamor has influenced in it “pride” and the “honor” of being able to bring the Spanish Difficulty and Paraclimbing Championship to Arroyomolinoscontributing to “putting the municipality on the map” thanks to a “burgeoning” discipline such as climbing.
30 meters of wall, an innovative app for the open popular
Since 10 in the morning this Thursday marked by sun and good weather, fans have been able to test their level on the bouldering wall. With 30 meters wide and various vertical routes of varying difficulty that are faced without a rope, although with the security of some mats arranged underneath, the wall offers two modalities, free and competitive; The latter being the one that allows the participants with the best marks to win a prize at the end of the week.
To register the brands of the dozens and dozens of applicants, the organization has launched a app which, using wireless bracelets, allows climbers to mark the beginning and end of their ascents. In this way, the application receives the information automatically and prepares the ranking of the tests of this open popular.
A hundred applicants face a pioneering wall in Spain
At 6 p.m., two hours after it was initially scheduled to avoid the punishment of the sun, the main action in ‘Climbing Madrid’ began with the absolute qualifiers. For more than two hours, until 60 male and 40 female competitors of all the federations of Spain have fought for get a place in the final of the First Cup of the Spanish Championship which takes place on Saturday.
For this first screening, the outfitters of the Spanish Federation of Mountain Sports and Climbing (FEDME) have established four different routes, two for male applicants and another two for female applicants, with a high degree of difficulty. Supported by friends, family and hundreds of fans, and after passing through the door raised by Toyota, sponsor of the event, the candidates have had a maximum of 6 minutes to face the total of 20 meters climbable and 14 meters high of the routes proposed on the difficulty wall.
Sixteen competitors seal their place in the absolute final on Saturday
A pioneering wall in Spain, brought directly from the Innsbruck World Championship (Germany), which surpasses the usual complexity of national competitions with the objective, as the commentator has highlighted, Alex Calanes. After testing your strength, endurance and strategy, demonstrating your mastery of the technique and movements required for the test, eight men and eight women have managed to seal their place in the final.
In parallel, the members of the Madrid federation participating in the event have also qualified for the regional tournament. All participants, classified or not, have received the competitor bags, a gift from sponsors from ‘Climbing Madrid’ and equipped with various products and discounts from Pascual Proteína, Iberdrola, Honor and Universae.
‘High altitude dialogues’ with the great national promises of paraclimbing
Once the qualifying round is over, the limelight in Climbing Madrid has been monopolized by three of the great promises of national paraclimbing. Up on the central stage and with Carlos Suarezhomeland legend of climbing, as orchestra director, Guillermo Pellegrini, Andrea Sánchez e Iván Muñoz They have chatted and reflected on the role of sport, in this case climbing, as a tool for personal and social improvement.
The three make up one of the most promising Spanish generations in the field of paraclimbing, despite the fact that the discipline, in the words of Sánchez, “he is still in diapers and has not yet started to walk.” Andrea has cerebral palsy and since she was little she always liked the mountains and He dreamed of reaching the top of Everest. So one day he started training and until now, he stands out in the RP1 category (the one with the highest degree of disability).
Pellegrini is a blind paraclimber who, after accumulating various national and international successes, last year achieved his first medal in a World Championship in the B3 category (visual impairment). A tournament that, as he himself tells time and time again, had the subtle irony of being held in the city of Bern (the capital of Switzerland, whose name said out loud sounds similar to ‘see nah‘, see nothing). For this young man in his 20s, events like this help break prejudices about disability and build a more egalitarian society.
Also with world medals in his bag, Múñoz He suffers from a type of multiple sclerosis and lacks feeling in one hand and one leg. Which has not prevented him, after debuting years ago with his friends in La Pedriza, from becoming one of the most relevant figures in international paraclimbing. That is why, as the closing of the colloquium, she encouraged everyone present to “stop loading our backpacks with stones” and fight against the adversities of life.
Jase The Rockstar give the final note of the fourth day of Climbing Madrid
As in the previous days and the days to come, the closing of the day was provided by music. This time, in charge Jase The Rockstar. From 8:30 p.m., this young artist of Venezuelan origin has enlivened the night of Arroyomolinos with his musical proposal that mixes a rock style and influences from the Miami sound.
Climbing Madrid is a joint initiative of Indoorwall and Prensa Ibérica, which seeks to unite professionals and amateurs of this sportwhile promoting competition, solidarity and respect for the environment.
Driven by the Madrid’s community and the Arroyomolinos City Council This project is sponsored by Renfe, Iberdrola, Toyota, HONOR, Universae, Pascual Proteína and Oliva Nova.
During this week and, until Sunday June 16, are expected to pass through Climbing Madrid around 35,000 people.
2024-06-13 19:45:35
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