Zamora and Burgos raise the curtain on the Regional Adapted Swimming League – Adapted Sport CyL – Spain’s News

• Zamora’s heated pool will open the curtain this Saturday, November 12, with the participation of clubs and swimmers from the southern sector, while Burgos will do the same at the El Plantío facilities

• The regional competition has more than a hundred participants, including Paralympians Luis Huerta and Marta Fernández

The eighth edition of the Castilla y León Adapted Swimming League begins this Saturday, November 12, in Zamora and Burgos.

The autonomous competition of the Federation of Adapted Sports of Castilla y León (Fedeacyl), divided into two venues according to geographical criteria, will live its first day in the Heated Municipal Swimming Pool of Zamora, from 4:00 p.m., with many of the best specialists in this discipline in the community.

In fact, they will participate at the Zamora venue together with Seña Bermeja, which will act as host entity with CD Duero Zamora, CD Fusion de Valladolid, Asprona Valladolid, Once Castilla y León and Apadefim Segovia.

For its part, in Burgos, and from 3:00 p.m. at the El Plantío Municipal Pool, eight other clubs will participate that will try to get their athletes into the finals of a “consolidated” competition on the calendar and that will lead a Paralympic sport that grows season after season.

In the capital of Burgos, the local entities of CD Puentesaúco, CD Sonrisas and CD Las Calzadas will dive into the water, to which the Palencia clubs of San Cebrián and Mundo Azul will join. Together with them, Impulso Global, from Soria; and the Leonese from CD Toba and CD Venatoria.

Among the athletes, the presence of the CD Fusion swimmers stands out, a leading club that has many of the promises of this discipline in the community. Promises and realities, like the Paralympians Luis Huerta and Marta Fernández, internationals with the Spanish team and flag bearer of the Paralympic team in the case of the Burgos woman.

In addition, the regional competition will serve to see the new additions of the Esgueva River Adapted Swimming Modernization Center

VIII Regional League Adapted Swimming Castilla y León

The Adapted Swimming League of Castilla y León is divided into two days and a third that meets its final condition for all those swimmers who qualify for it in the previous tests.

The second day will take place in January in Medina del Campo and Palencia, while the final is set for February 15.

The best of these two days will obtain the ticket for the final of the Swimming League to be held on Saturday, February 12 at the CTD Río Esgueva swimming pool in Valladolid.

The Federation of Adapted Sports of Castilla y León values ​​this championship by uniting in the same competition athletes with different disabilities, who swim together and who are classified according to them. “It is an example of activity and an achievement that has been consolidated over the years”, analyzes the president of Adapted Sports Castilla y León, Federico Martínez