Editorial.- More than 1,700 athletes will compete this weekend in state selective competitions in search of their pass to represent Guanajuato in the 2026 National Olympics.
The Sports Commission of the State of Guanajuato (CODE) will coordinate the selections in the disciplines of tennis, athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, association football, beach volleyball, skateboarding, tennis and road cycling to be held in the municipalities of Irapuato, Salamanca, Silao, Irapuato, Guanajuato, León and Moroleón.
This year, CODE projects a delegation made up of more than a thousand athletes, who will be tasked with keeping Guanajuato in the top ten of national sports by obtaining between 85 and 100 gold medals.
Guanajuato currently occupies eighth position in the medal table, a place it obtained in the 2025 National Olympics, an event in which it closed with 77 gold medals.
The selections started this Friday and will close on the first day of February, the date on which there will be an accurate overview of the young people who will represent Guanajuato in the national contest that will take place in 7 entities in the country.
The disciplines with the largest number of participants will be athletics with 500 participants to be held at the León 1 Sports Macrocenter, soccer will bring together 520 athletes at the Enrique Fernández Martínez sports unit and basketball with more than 500 participants at the Comudaj Module in Irapuato.
The tennis competitions will take place at Club Santa Margarita in Irapuato, badminton at the Unidad Deportiva Sur in Salamanca, and baseball at Los Eucaliptos in Silao.
The beach volleyball competitions to be held at the Macrocentro Deportivo 1, in Moroleón, road cycling and skateboarding were assigned to Las Hilamas Park in León.
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