More than 30 national and international events make up the 2023 sports calendar, presented today at FITUR

The Department of Sports of the Torrevieja City Council has presented the Sports Agenda at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR), made up of more than thirty events of various disciplines, national and international, as well as the campuses that are part of tourism sports center in which the city has been working in recent years. The presentation ceremony was attended by the president of the Spanish Swimming Federation, Fernando Carpena.

Of the more than 30 events that the Ciudad Deportiva de Torrevieja has prepared for this 2023, the celebration, for the first time, of the European Police and Fire Games stands out, which will take place from September 29 to October 7, with the arrival at the city of more than 3,000 people between athletes and family members.

Continuing with the international events, the Councilor for Sports, Diana Box Alonso, has presented the Rugby Touch Championship (Touch & Tapas) that will take place from March 17 to 19. The Torrevieja International Cup will bring together thousands of athletes of all categories in sports such as volleyball (from June 23 to 27), men's and women's soccer (from April 5 to 9, from April 23 to 27) at Easter and summer. June -women only-, and from June 28 to July 2 -men only-), and futsal (from July 3 to 6).

The calendar begins this month of January with the celebration of the Euromarina Optimist Trophy, which will take place from January 26 to 29. Continuing with the national events, Torrevieja will once again host the FEDDY Spanish Swimming Championship, from March 10 to 12, thus continuing the promotion of sports for all types of abilities, one of the lines of work that the team has been developing. government led by the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón.

In the month of February, the Spanish Swimming Championship of Territorial Federations will take place in the junior and children's categories (from February 9 to 13), and the Comunitat Valenciana Olympic Week, which will take place from February 9 to 12, and from 16 to 19.

Torrevieja also recovers its Half Marathon (February 26) with the arrival in the city of more than 1,500 people including competitors and family members. National athletics will meet again on October 14 and 15 with the Spanish Children's Athletics Championship.

SPORTS TOURISM WILL HOST A TOTAL OF 39 SPORTS CAMPUSES IN 2023

One of the lines of work of the Department of Sports is Sports Tourism, which in recent years has increased considerably. Between the months of January and August, a total of 39 campuses are expected to take place at the Ciudad Deportiva, lasting between 4 and 12 days. These are international sports groups from different disciplines such as football, swimming, athletics, handball, basketball, triathlon, skating, futsal, volleyball and netball.

Diana Box has highlighted that Torrevieja is demonstrating to the agents of the sports market that it has worked very hard to have high-quality facilities that, together with the good climate that the city has throughout the year, makes it even more attractive to a market that choose us as your first choice. The Department of Sports Tourism offers an excellent and professional assistance and coordination service, one more pillar for sports agents to trust Torrevieja and everything it offers them.

Teams from countries such as Norway, Denmark, Holland, Finland, Belgium, Estonia, Ukraine, Poland and England are expected to come to Torrevieja in 2023. This translates into more than 14,000 visitors who will leave more than 6 million euros directly in Torrevieja.

THE MAYOR AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE CYCLE TOUR OF SPAIN MEET AT FITUR

On the other hand, the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, the Councilor for Sports, Diana Box, along with the president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Carlos Mazón, met this Thursday morning with the general director of the Vuelta Ciclista a Spain, Javier Guillen. This work meeting, which took place at the Costa Blanca stand at FITUR, has as its objective that the city of Torrevieja once again host an important cycling event.

Provincial Council, City Council and UNIPUBLIC have the firm will to continue collaborating together so that Torrevieja once again occupies a first level position that allows repeating the spectacular images that were displayed around the world in August 2019, with the release of the first stage of the Cycling Tour of Spain from the salt mountains of our salt mines. The possibility of Torrevieja being able to host one of the stages of the Women's Tour of Spain, which will take place next May, is being studied. In the words of Eduardo Dolón "we have been working for a long time so that these unusual images of our salt flats, with the start of the Vuelta Ciclista España 2019, can once again be seen all over the world."