This year will be three Lorca teams that, through their runners, will take Juanfra, Andrés and Álvaro to enjoy this magical experience |
The Councilors of Social Services and Sports of the City of Lorca, Fátima Mínguez and Juan Francisco Martínez, respectively, along with the president of the Association of Early Care Parents, María Dolores Chumillas, have informed that this entity will repeat its participation in the edition of the Joëlette World Championship, which will be held this year in the French town of Saint-Trojan les Bains.
Fátima Mínguez explained that "this is the eleventh edition of the World Championship Joëlette organized by SYNAPSE 17 to take place on May 27. The delegation Lorca, which last year was in 6th place, is composed of almost one In this year's edition, there will be three Lorca teams that, through their runners, will take Juanfra, Andrés and Álvaro for the first time. Who enjoy this magical experience.Lorquino riders have the peculiarity that, in addition, it is the only groups of our country that represent Spain in the Championship. It should be noted that in this can compete with people with motor, sensory or mental".
The Councilor for Social Services has stressed that "Lorca's participation is possible thanks to the contribution of more than 40 sponsors, led by the City of Lorca itself in its commitment to the promotion of inclusive sport and social awareness. Gets that Apat Lorca, an association loaded with enthusiasm, work, perseverance and desire to fight for the smallest, can move to this World Cup and compete in a test of these characteristics to bring the name of Lorca to the top of the sport adapted ".
"The race will have a distance of 12 kilometers and will be in 1 ½ loop for the 2017 edition of the island of Oléron. The test will have departure and arrival in the town of Saint-Trojan, and will run through About 100 teams are already registered in this test in which, every 2 minutes 2 teams take the exit and that, at the end of the same, all participants and partners, meet In addition, after living this wonderful adventure in France, Apat Lorca wants to organize in the City of the Sun the 1st Championship of Spain by Joëlette for next year 2018, a sporting event and solidarity to continue pushing The limits of sport ".
It is recalled that last year 97 international teams composed of one person with reduced mobility and 4 riders took the start of this all-terrain race between land and ocean.
For this new edition, the organizer SYNAPSE 17 hopes to welcome many more teams from different countries so that more and more people with disabilities can live the adventure of this great sporting challenge but above all human and solidarity.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca