This 2023 the Women’s Sports Day of Girona will return to its usual date in March, around Women’s Day, after the last two years have been moved in times of heat due to the pandemic. The 11th edition will be held next Sunday, March 5 in different places in the city: the Plaza de Salvador Espriuthe Plaça de Calvet and Rubalcabathe llera of Onyar river that day Plaça de Catalunya. As always, there will be plenty of sports activities, workshops and talks for girls, young people and women scheduled throughout the morning, from 9.30am to 1.30pm.
The 11th edition of the Women’s Sports Day was presented in an event that took place inGirona City Council and which has included the participation of two of this year’s ambassadors: the rower Aina Arteman and the founder of Jump Gymnastics Clubex-coach and ex-technical director of artistic gymnastics, Montse Hugas. So are the athlete Jana Bruses and the motocross rider Daniela Guillen. In addition, there have also been representatives and athletes from organizations and sports clubs that participate or support the event.
“The Women’s Sports Day allows not only to promote women’s sports in the city and in the demarcation of Girona, but also makes it possible to sensitize men and women to the fact that this practice exists, and that it is not so minority, but that is invisible Each and every one of us must take responsibility as a society for this challenge and we must make it visible”, comments the councilor ofEducation, Children and Sports, Adam Bertrand. For his part, the deputy ofEsports, Jordi Masquefsays that “the Jornada is completely rooted in the city of Girona and has become a space that helps to break stereotypes and to become aware of the potential of women’s sport”: “In all these years, steps have been taken come in”.
One of the novelties this year will be the inclusion of new sports practices during the day. In total, 24 disciplines can be practiced there: roller hockey, table tennis, artistic gymnastics, volleyball, canoeing, athletics, rugby, rhythmic gymnastics, weightlifting, basketball, football, underwater activities, handball, figure skating, chess, judo , tennis, skateboarding, Nordic walking, paleotraining, sailing, orienteering and wheelchair basketball and tennis, in addition to the traditional game of Catalan bowling. At the same time, there will be the possibility of participating in several organized circuits to practice physical activities in closed groups. The objective of the day, which began in 2013, is to give visibility to women’s sport.
