<a href="https://www.archysport.com/2024/04/expansion-of-sports-infrastructure-and-talents-program-in-manizales/" title="Expansion of Sports Infrastructure and Talents Program in Manizales“>First National Youth Games of the Olympic and Paralympic sector. The athletic competitions were inaugurated in the city of Pereira. The opening was an emotional, happy, colorful event full of sporting youth. Apart from Pereira, there are tournaments in the cities of Armenia, Manizales, Cali and Bogotá and the municipalities of Chinchiná in Caldas, Calima-Darién and Buenaventura in the Cauca Valley and Nilo, Cundinamarca. Antioquia began by winning basketball in Manizales, squash in Armenia and beach volleyball in Pereira. This Sunday competitions in eleven sports in Pereira, Armenia, Manizales and Cali. (Standard bearers of Antioquia Stefany Cuadrado of cycling and Emmanuel Bustamante of boccia and athletes of Antioquia at the opening of the 1sts National and Paranational Youth Games. Photo by Alejandro Zuluaga Mora – Indeportes Antioquia)
In a beautiful event, held at the Hernán Ramírez Villegas stadium in the city of Pereira, capital of the department of Risaralda, the First National and Paranational Youth Games of Colombia were inaugurated on the night of Saturday, November 9, 2024.
The opening of the contest, which runs until Thursday, November 28, 2024, was chaired by the Minister of Sports, Luz Cristina López Trejos. The national dignitary was accompanied by the governor of Risaralda, Juan Diego Patiño Ochoa; the mayor of Pereira, Mauricio Salazar Peláez; and the director of the games, Claudia Juliana Enciso Montes, among other civil and sports authorities, as well as personalities from the national, departmental and municipal level.
The Indeportes Antioquia reporter, Beatriz Elena Quiceno Gil, tells about the opening ceremony of the games: “With a massive and emotional celebration, the first National Youth Games of Colombia were inaugurated this Saturday, November 9, 2024.
After the national anthem, which marked the beginning of the ceremonial act with Antioquia as the first delegation to parade, the emotional moments of the night began.
There were 32 delegations that participated in the parade. The entire Colombian territory participating in these National Games that, in their first edition, integrate athletes from the Olympic and Paralympic sectors on the same date, with transportation, lodging and food expenses covered by the national government, seeking to guarantee conditions of equity for the participation of all departments.
After the welcome greeting from the mayor of Pereira, Mauricio Salazar Peláez, came the speech from the governor of Risaralda Juan Diego Patiño Ochoa, who took the opportunity to ask the national government to make the necessary efforts to not reduce the budget for sports, recreation and activity physics.
Finally, the sports ministerLuz Cristina López Trejos, offered An enthusiastic greeting to the athletes, to athletes, coaches, delegates and all representatives of the National Sports System, inviting them to enjoy the competition.
And he closed his speech by officially declaring these first National Youth Games of the Coffee Axis 2024 officially inaugurated, and after which, those attending the opening ceremony were able to enjoy a powerless show of fireworks, followed by an exhibition of drones, a cultural magazine with expressions artistic performances of the region and a youth musical concert.”
Sports competitions from the same Saturday:
Prior to the inauguration, in the morning, in the afternoon and even at night, on Saturday, November 9, there were beach volleyball and wheelchair tennis competitions in Pereira, women’s basketball in Manizales and squash in Armenia.
The Antioquia delegation, which had presentations on Saturday in the three cities, in Manizales defeated Bogotá in women’s basketball, 60-47; in Armenia, in squash, Tomás Salinas and Miguel Posada won their games and in Pereira, in beach volleyball, they dominated Cundinamarca and Valle del Cauca in women’s and La Guajira in men’s.
This Sunday, November 10, sports increase and consequently the sporting presence of Antioquia as well, because apart from basketball, squash, wheelchair tennis and beach volleyball, there will also be competitions in baseball, cycling, karate do, paracycling, for archery, figure skating and floor volleyball.
The Antioquia delegation in the first National and Paranational Youth Games of Colombia is made up of 555 conventional athletes and 59 para-athletes, for a total of 614 athletes. Added to them are 131 coaches in conventional sports and twelve in para sports, plus 44 delegates in conventional disciplines and eight in para sports. The representatives of Antioquia will compete in 31 conventional sports and eight types of Paralympic sports.
The Antioquian presence, by venue, within the framework of the National and Paranational Youth Games, is as follows:
Armenia:
Athletics, for athletics, 3×3 basketball (F y M), 5×5 balloon (M), handball (F), bowling, BMX cycling, paracycling route, road cycling, football (M), gymnastics, golf, swimming, weightlifting and squash.
Pereira:
Archery, for archery, for badminton, badminton, boxing, football, judo, for judo, wrestling, swimming (artistic, racing and diving)skating, rugby, field tennis, floor volleyball and beach volleyball.
Manizales:
Baloncesto 5×5 (F), MTB cycling, boccia, fencing, karate do, skating (artistic and careers), taekwondo, table tennis and para table tennis.
Cali: baseball, softball and track cycling.
Bogota: water and equestrian skiing.
Calima: sailing and boating.
Chinchina: triathlon.
Need: sports shooting.
Antioquia sports results on Saturday, November 9, 2024 and athletic programming of the Antioquia people in the Pereira Press Bulletin 01-2024
