the olympic champion Ruth Beitia opened this Thursday “with pride” the new athletics tracks for the complex he named in Santanderand stressed that this was a “very important” day for Cantabrian sports.
At the opening ceremony, which took place at the sports complex itself, Beitia was accompanied by the mayor of Santander, Same Gemand of his coach Ramon Torralbowhich he has always considered his “50 percent”.
In addition, the Rio 2016 Olympic champion received from Mondo, the company that carried out the work and official supplier of the Olympic Games, the ribbon on which the Cantabrian won the gold medal.
Beitia told Efe that this ribbon, which he will donate to the Santander Sports Museum, is “very special” for him and his coach, because it is “achieving his dream after four Olympics “.
The mayor explained that the new circuit includes an athletics track with an eight -lane ring of 400 meters of rope, two straight lines of 100 meters, a semicircle for the obstacle course area, javelin throwing and jumping corridors. height, and two corridors. with a pit for long jump.
He also thanked the Mondo company for the “speed” it made because “it was completed in two and a half months where, in principle, three were estimated”.
He also recalled that this weekend the Spanish Under-23 Championship will be held on the new slopes of the Ruth Beitia Municipal Complex, with 800 participants.
Source: La Verdad
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