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Registration for the Municipal Sports Games is now open

The 42nd edition of the Municipal Sports Games will start on October 23, after a last appointment marked by the pandemic, in which the Madrid City Council made an enormous effort so that the competition took place, complying with all the security measures required by health regulations.

The main novelty of this edition is the possibility of register form online Through the website of the Madrid City Council to make the process more agile and easy for citizens.

The registration deadlines begin this Monday, September 20, and are divided into two phases. A first stage that includes from September 20 to 30 and which is aimed at category teams senior and another phase that will pass from October 4 to 14, reserved for basic sport categories (prebenjamin, youngest, alevín, infantile, cadet and juvenile). The starting dates of the competitions will be October 23 for seniors and November 13 for the rest of the categories participating in the competition.

Competitions in 29 disciplines

There will be competition in 29 sports disciplines in the 21 districts of Madrid, 12 in team sports (basketball, handball, baseball, soccer, futsal, soccer 7, hockey, kayak-polo, rugby, volleyball, beach volleyball and water polo) and 17 in individual modalities (chess, athletics, badminton, field through, fencing, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, judo, karate, wrestling, swimming, artistic swimming, canoeing, rowing, rescue and lifeguard, tennis and table tennis).

The councilor delegate for Sport, Sofia Miranda, highlighted that this new season begins “with the challenge of reaching normality that allows the evolution of the pandemic and with a new computer application that will modernize and improve municipal competitions, starting with the online registration of all teams and athletes exclusively ”.

The Delegated Sports Area is in charge of organizing the Games in collaboration with the 21 districts of Madrid, which, as Miranda explained, “supposes one of the biggest organizational challenges in the city, which contributes, in the year in which we are Capital of Sports, to strengthen the organizational capacities and love for the sport of the people of Madrid ”.

Promotion of sport at a global level

Precisely, for the promotion of sports practice of all groups, it has been announced that the 50% reduction in the registration fee for women’s teams, which is intended to encourage sports participation by women. Likewise, free registration in individual sports is maintained. Registration prices for group sports are, for senior category, 200 euros; Cadet and juvenile, 100 euros and infant, juvenile, youngest and pre-baby, 50 euros.

The largest European popular competition

The Municipal Sports Games program constitutes an important heritage of the city of Madrid, by bringing together nearly 180,000 athletes annually, which makes it the largest municipal competition in all of Europe around a sporting practice in which, above results and classifications, the participation and joy of the game, integration and education in values ​​such as solidarity and respect to the contrary.

It is also configured as a first level instrument to promote the acquisition of healthy habits, cohesion and social structuring through the participation of clubs, schools, children and their family environment, as well as education through the inherent values ​​of sport.

The general regulations of the program, as well as online registration or downloading of other necessary documents can be done from this week at the Sports website of the Madrid City Council.

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