Today and tomorrow the individual Autonomous Community is disputed

Riojan track athletics has its big event of the year this weekend with the dispute of the individual La Rioja Championship, in the absolute category. Between today’s afternoon session (between 6:00 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.) and tomorrow’s morning session (from 9:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) all the titles on the program will be distributed.

If expectations are met and all the athletes who are registered go to the slopes to take part in the tests they are signed up for, an excellent participation can be expected, with tests such as the men’s 100, with up to 30 athletes registered, or the 3,000 with 32 participants. , some of them from neighboring communities who will go to La Rioja in search of the minimum marks for the Nationals.

Practically all the important Riojan athletes on the track will be at Adarraga this weekend. Some of the most notable casualties are those of Rodrigo Iglesias, who will throw the javelin in the Ciudad de Segovia Grand Prix or Mykhailo Brudin who will throw the discus in the Navarra Championship or Marcos Moreno, who is resting.

In women there will not be María López either, on the other hand, we will be able to see some of the athletes who do not usually take part in the Rioja competitions such as Patricia Urquía, Ghaita El Jarraz (who will run the low hurdles again), Bianca Acosta or Eliani Casi Reyes, among others.

federative assembly

Last Thursday, the members of the Assembly of the Rioja Athletics Federation were voted on in the categories of athletes and judges (in the case of clubs and coaches, exactly the same number of those sought had presented themselves) so it was not necessary vote.

In the case of the athletes’ establishment (along with the clubs, with 10 representatives, the most ‘powerful’ in the Assembly) seven representatives were for the list headed by Raúl Negueruela and three for that of Nacho García, so it seems probable That on July 12, the veteran athlete of the Rioja Marathon will be proclaimed the new president of the Riojan Athletics Federation.