Was held in La Union regional championship sport "Playing athletics," team competition aimed at Primary Education Centers of public or private.
Each participant School Center has presented a team of five boys and five girls, according to category, who were born in 2000 or 2001.
The uniqueness of this activity is to search through the most basic capabilities for human body, such as running, jumping or throwing children and young people learn to use and control his body, playing and having fun, to test trábense and athletic games, which favor multifaceted and multilateral training of technical skills themselves in athletics.
This year the participation has been successful all with more than 28 quipus in the men and as many in the female, so that over 300 young athletes competed in the sports facilities of La Union ..
The closing and award ceremony was attended by the Regional Director of Sports, Antonio Penalver, and Deputy Mayor of Culture and Sports, Julio Garcia.
The program "Playing Athletics" was created to offer children and young people a new form, according to our time, to get started in athletics.
Taking into account the habits and the new demands that children and young people in the area claimed today's society, the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation is promoting change through "Playing Athletics" on the concept of athletic activities for children to mobilize and attract them towards athletics, considering also that the most appropriate and effective environment for this development is primarily the school setting.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión