The San Amaro Sports Complex will host the badminton events. /
The School Age Sports Program welcomes the best male and female athletes from each province in chess, table tennis, badminton and track athletics
The province of Burgos will host the final phase of the Castilla y León School Age Individual Sports Championship, where 570 athletes between the ages of eleven and 14 will travel from the rest of the provinces to participate in the event, accompanied by their respective coaches and the corresponding referees. In total, 680 participants will meet in Burgos.
The event, organized by the General Directorate of Sports under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Junta de Castilla y León, is the final act of the municipal and provincial phases carried out throughout the 2021-2022 academic year. By holding these championships, the Junta de Castilla y León seeks to contribute through sport to the education of children and young people.
Throughout the day, the best school-age athletes in the community will compete on the tracks made available by the Burgos City Council in the modalities of chess, table tennis, badminton and track athletics. The students will play the final of the four sports to determine who will be the regional winner of each competition in the male and female modalities. For its part, Valladolid will host the final of the rescue and lifeguard modalities.
The chess competition, which will take place at 10 a.m. at the Lavaderos Sports Center, is attended by 64 students between the ages of 11 and 16 from the provinces of Ávila (two), Burgos (16), León (12), Palencia (ten), Salamanca (eight), Soria (eight) and Valladolid (eight), accompanied by thirteen coaches and five referees.
In the table tennis modality held at the Río Vena Civic Center at 10 a.m., 24 schoolchildren between 12 and 14 years old from Burgos (three), León (four), Palencia (four), Salamanca (two ), Segovia (four) and Soria (three), led by six coaches and three referees.
The badminton test will begin at 10 am at the San Amaro Sports Complex, where 40 students between 12 and 14 years old from Burgos (six), León (six), Palencia (three), Salamanca (four), Segovia (four ), Soria (seven), Valladolid (seven) will compete for the title. They will be accompanied by nine coaches and two referees.
The track athletics competition is the largest, with a total of 428 athletes divided into the child and cadet categories. Students from Ávila (48), Burgos (66), León (60), Palencia (30), Salamanca (44), Segovia (59), Soria (39), Valladolid (32) and Zamora (41) will participate in it. . All of them will be accompanied by their respective coaches (35) and will have 37 referees.
