The The best pétanque players in the world they will meet This weekend in Lorca In the I International Petanque Open City of the Sun, within Guadalentín Sports. more than 300 participants will attend from different pockets in our countrybut also from Morocco, UK, Turkey and France.
The event was presented on Monday by the Mayor of Sports, Erin Godard PerezWith Thousand Stars Club President Lorca, Iago Pinheiro; President of the Morcian Petanque Federation, Gerardo Sanchez. The mayor confirmed that the Guadalentín Sports Games will arrive this past weekend, and after they conclude on the 12th, will arrive on Saturday and Sunday One of the latest great developments in this year’s calendar, the I Open International Petanque City of the Sun organized by Lorca club a thousand stars“.
The The tournament will be held all weekend week in wheel parkwhere there are more than 80 Petanque Courts of which one Twenty . will be covered. The competitions will start on Saturday at nine in the morning and continue until two in the afternoon, and matches will resume at four in the afternoon and extend until nine in the evening. The match will continue on Sunday from nine in the morning until two in the afternoon.
Mayor Demonstrate the importance of the event Sports. “It is of a high standard. Among the players who will attend, the current world runner-up is Javier and Alex Cardenas In the category Senior and members Spain Women’s National Team Champion in triple mode. This is a great opportunity for Lorca given the popularity of this event, which will also be broadcast live on the Youtube channel of Mil Estrellas Petanque.”
128 teams will participate in the men’s categoryAnd the 16 women’s teams s 16 in the youth category. In total there will be more than 300 participants. The tournament will be held by Swiss International System Where the participating teams compete in a league of five matches, half of which are classified into a main category and the rest for a consolation category. From this first round, the system of play will be by direct elimination until the final. The event It will have different stalls and bar service So that everyone who comes can have a different day with minority sport and with us to learn more about our sport,” explained club president Mil Estrellas.
The president of the Morcian Petanque Federation explained that The region has 700 unions And this is Lorca Four clubs add up to 15 percent of licenses. As for the A profile of the petanque player, they insisted that he is a young man between 20 and 25 years oldthough Associations up to 45 years.
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