Basketball, handball, badminton, weightlifting, chess, swimming, fronton and beach volleyball are in action at the Children’s, Youth and Paralympic Sports Games in Mexico City

• Different sports spaces in the capital opened their doors for the competitions towards the CONADE 2023 National Games

This Saturday the Children’s, Youth and Paralympic Sports Games of Mexico City 2023 continued in the disciplines of swimming, handball, badminton, chess, fronton, weightlifting, basketball and beach volleyball.

The general director of the Sports Institute (INDEPORTE), Javier Hidalgo Ponce, highlighted in a meeting of the Sports Council of Mexico City the importance of strengthening these games by the Mayor’s offices and Sports Associations involved.

A better position of the capital will be sought in the medal table of the CONADE Nationals that will be held in the state of Tabasco, for which reason it is in a process of detecting sports talents to accompany them throughout the process. The basketball tournament was held in different city halls of the capital with the participation of players from 12 to 21 years of age separated into nine categories and two branches: women’s and men’s.

The matches will continue during February and the months of March and April to define the teams that will compete in the macro-regional stage and, later, in the CONADE 2023 National Games.

On the other hand, Santa Cruz Meyehualco hosted the handball competitions, which also goes to a macro-regional stage after the Games in Mexico City. There are 200 players registered and the following municipalities participate: Benito Juárez, Tlalpan, Miguel Hidalgo, Iztapalapa, Iztacalco and Venustiano Carranza.

Meanwhile, badminton was also played at Deportivo Chapultepec; This competition, unlike the basketball and handball ones, is not going to be macro-regional, but -prior to the CONADE National Games- the selected players participate in a national qualifier.

Deportivo Joaquín Capilla, in the Benito Juárez City Hall, is the venue for the weightlifting competition in which children, adolescents and adults from 13 to 23 years old participated with snatch and clean and jerk modalities; the winning athletes will compete in the macro-regional stage.

The competitions of the discipline of swimming are held in the Olympic Pool “Francisco Márquez” which is located in the Benito Juárez City Hall. The Futurama Cultural Center -in Gustavo A. Madero- and the Deportivo Xochimilco -in the Xochimilco City Hall- hosted the chess and fronton competitions, respectively.

Finally, in the Deportivo Hermanos Galeana of the Gustavo A. Madero Mayor’s Office, the volleyball discipline began, which was divided into five categories, three of them youth and two children; the competitions will continue next weekend.

The CONADE Nationals will be held in the state of Tabasco and this sports event will include more than 40 disciplines, both in conventional and paralympic competitions.