MADRID, 7 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Madrid MiniMarathon, a sporting event intended for schoolchildren in Madrid, will return this coming April 21 at El Retiro Park after three years without being able to be held due to the pandemic and which has the main challenge of promoting physical activity in the girls, as well as the inclusion and physical and emotional health of young people through sport.
The test, which opens as the first National Race for young people and in which the Créate Foundation and Sport Life Ibérica collaborate, together with the Madrid City Council, the Adecco Foundation, and the Community of Madrid, was presented this Tuesday at the Real Colegio Our Lady of Loreto with the participation of the Councilor for Sport, Sofía Miranda.
“This race is a way of educating young people in values through sports and an opportunity for them to practice sports in a playful and fun way,” said Miranda, who is clear that this test “is an example” of one of the objectives of the City Council to promote “basic sport, in a very special way among the girls”.
7,000 young people from 10 to 17 years old from Madrid are invited to the MiniMarathon, whose benefits will go entirely to educational innovation programs in public schools. The participants in the test will run 4.2 kilometers, a significant distance that pays homage to the queen test of long distances since it is ten percent of a marathon and that will have four categories: male infant, female infant, male youth and female juvenile.
Registration for the race is now open, until March 30 for educational centers and until April 8 for individuals on the ‘MiniMaraton Madrid’ website with an individual cost of 3 euros. This edition also has three exceptional ambassadors such as the former athlete Jesús España, the Olympian Lucía Rodríguez and Carmen Giménez, president of Run For You, an inclusive athletics club of the Community of Madrid, and Spanish champion of 800, 1500 and 5000 meters of the T54 class for wheelchair athletes.