This weekend Barbastro is hosting the third Spanish Cup A of Children’s and Cadet Judo of Aragon, a national competition that will bring together more than 700 athletes from fourteen autonomous communities from Friday to Sunday, as well as several technical teams and the Andorra judo team, as well as another 300 people accredited between referees and the organization, who will be joined by relatives and friends of the young judokas from all over Spain.
The mayor of Barbastro, Fernando Torres; the president of the Aragonese Federation of Judo and Associated Sports, José Ángel Hierro; the Councilor for Sports of the Barbastro City Council, Pilar Abad; the executive director and vice president of the Aragonese Federation of Judo and Associated Sports and responsible for the competition, Cristina Berrocal; and Antonio Clager, member of the Coordination Committee of Aragonese judo modernization programs and sports director Club Judo Barbastro and Club Judo Binefar, have been in charge of reeling off the details of the tournament today at a press conference.
“We are very pleased to host this competition that will bring more than 700 athletes from the cadet and children’s categories to Barbastro this weekend, with all that this entails: in addition to turning our city into a national judo showcase, which Participants from all over Spain get to know Barbastro because not only athletes come, but also coaches and families and that means a great tourist and economic impact for our city and region”, assured Fernando Torres.
The mayor of Barbastro has also shared “the satisfaction on the part of the City Council of being able to host this event” and his desire “that it be only the first stone of many others that can be held in our city. I hope that our city lives up to the competition and that the Federation continues to count on us in the coming years”. Finally, Torres thanked “the Aragonese Federation and, above all, Antonio Clager for thinking of Barbastro to celebrate this Spanish Cup, and for making it possible.”
José Ángel Hierro Jarné, president of the Aragonese Federation of Judo and Associated Sports, has highlighted the importance of the competition that is going to be held this weekend in Barbastro. “This Children’s and Cadet Spanish Cup is a national competition that constitutes in itself a National League between the different Judo Spanish Cups, which have as other venues the cities of Avilés, Alicante, Montijo, Tortosa, Santiago de Compostela , Tenerife, Suances, Valladolid, Pamplona or Vigo”.
The head of the Aragonese has explained that, despite the fact that participation is closed to date with 720 athletes, “the ranked can still register, that is, those people who are at the highest national level and who, given the volume of registration that there is and that they can see their position in the ranking in danger, despite the registration being closed, they still have the possibility of doing so ”. Hierro has highlighted that, although there are 720 judokas, “we have more than a thousand accredited, with an average occupation of 2.5 people per accredited. Therefore -he assured- we are going to have around 2,500 people in the city of Barbastro during the weekend”. Participants must, at least, spend one night in the host city of the Cup, given that “the competition system requires accreditations and weigh-ins to be carried out the day before. Therefore, by attending the children’s or cadet competition, the participants, the officials and the technicians have to spend at least one overnight in the city of Barbastro, with the direct economic repercussion that the event entails”, explained José Ángel Hierro .
Cristina Berrocal, executive director and vice president of the Aragonese Federation of Judo and Associated Sports, will be in charge of the competition and has been in charge of offering the details of participation to this day in a championship in which almost all the communities will be represented. regions, including the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, “in addition to the modernization teams of the CARs of Madrid, Murcia, Cantabra and Navarra and the Andorra judo team in the Cadet Cup”.
In this way, the Spanish Cadet Cup will bring together 430 athletes, 279 in the male category and 151 in the female category, in addition to another 145 accredited people including coaches, organization and the team of the Spanish and Aragonese Federations, to which family members must be added. and public. In the Children’s Spanish Cup, participation is slightly lower “since in the children’s category there are only two years”, 290 athletes will compete, 185 in the male category and 105 in the female category.
judo promotion
The Councilor for Sports of Barbastro, Pilar Abad, has shown her “satisfaction for presenting this event that will take place in our city on November 18, 19 and 20”, and has influenced the work of promoting the sport of judo . “We wanted to take the Spanish Cup further and we are organizing a ‘masterclass’ aimed at primary school children to make this sport known”, she assured.
“After 40 years that I have been teaching judo in Barbastro, extracurricularly, this is the way to give back to our city
Antonio Clager, member of the Coordination Committee of Aragonese judo modernization programs and sports director of the Barbastro Judo Club, thanked all those who have made it possible for this Spanish Cup to be a reality in Barbastro. “After 40 years that I have been teaching judo in Barbastro, in an extracurricular way to hundreds of boys and girls, this has been the opportunity to give back to my city everything it has done for me”, he assured and shared his illusion because “this competition is the spearhead to be able to develop a project and I would like to achieve a high level here as well”.
Clager has offered the details of the ‘masterclass’ that on Friday morning will be led by judoka Alberto Gaitero, Olympic diploma and world and European medalist, with instructors from the Federation who will help in sessions to promote judo among 3rd and 4th grade students of Primary Education of the schools of Barbastro.
It will be the perfect preamble to the Spanish Cup that this weekend will turn the Ángel Orús de Barbastro Pavilion into the epicenter of children’s and cadet judo in our country. In addition to the warm-up area, four official competition tatami mats will be installed in the pavilion and the public will be able to follow the qualifiers live or streaming through www.judolive.es https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list =PLXfmIaHDC6gtQI5pjwdJ3NEwk2ALLposK.
Representation of Barbastro and Aragon
Fourteen judokas from Barbastre, all of them from the Barbastro Judo Club, will debut in national competition this weekend in this Spanish Cup. This was confirmed this afternoon by Antonio Clager, who has advanced that “three judokas will participate in the cadet category and eleven in the children’s category, for what will be their first national competition.”
The Aragonese representation in this Spanish Cup is very numerous. Cristina Berrocal, director of the competition, has confirmed the participation of “88 athletes in the children’s category and 74 in the cadet category.”
With this Cup, one of the objectives of the Aragonese Federation of Judo and Associated Sports is to try to establish a Circuit of Cups of Spain within Aragon, “thus offering the possibility to all Aragonese judokas of all categories to be able to participate in the national circuit of Spanish Cups from home”.
