This Wednesday the death of Eduardo Nicolás Bernal, teacher, politician and prominent figure in the history of sports in Comodoro Rivadavia, was announced at 101 years of age.
At the time it was an important part of the ignition of the Comodoro Athletics Federation, until it was “provincialized” because the government extended beyond the limits of Chubut and Santa Cruz.
Eduardo Bernal has been part of the sports and teaching tradition of Comodoro and other Chubut towns.
Bernal was summoned to work with the Argentine Athletics Confederation (CADA), for their commitment and work in the Chubut Athletics Federation, and thus also witnessed and accompanied Argentine delegations in different Olympic Games since the eighties.
He was director for Argentina in the South American Confederation from 1979 to 1989 and vice president of the entity from 1989 to 2007, the year in which he was appointed honorary vice president for life. 9 years ago, in 2013 and at the 9th Congress of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), he was recognized with the World Body’s Place of Merit, being the first Argentine to achieve it. For almost 10 years, the Comodoro athletics track has had its full name: Eduardo Nicolás Bernal. The sporting tradition of national athletics is comodorense.
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