The municipality of Puerto Lumbreras will host the first edition of the Hispania Mediterránea Handball Cup on December 28 and 29.
The big event will be held in the male and female category in two spaces, the Municipal Sports Center and the Multipurpose Rural Center of La Estación-Esparragal.
The presentation, which took place this morning, was attended by the Councilor for Sports, Juan Rubén Burrueco, the President of the Handball Federation, Daniel Santos, and the President of the Puerto Lumbreras Handball Club, Juan Montiel.
The Councilor for Physical Activity and Sports, Juan Rubén Burrueco, has been pleased to host this sporting event in the municipality and stressed that "Puerto Lumbreras has been the place chosen to organize this tournament for its privileged geographic location and excellent network of resources and sports facilities, located in a small radius of kilometers, which allows a rapid movement of the participants between them ".
In addition, Burrueco has pointed out that "Lumbrerense is already a benchmark in the celebration of national and international competitions such as the recent departure of the Tour of Spain or the Enduro World Championship."
The competition format has two groups of six teams per category and sex.
The championship is divided in two phases: a previous one, in which all the teams will face, completing five matches each one of them;
and another final phase, in which each team will be measured with its pair of the other group by classification.
The first four teams classified in the day of December 28, will face the same format with Andalusian and Valencian teams.
It should be noted that the matches will be two-part in time with one team timeout and five minutes of rest between parties.
The preliminary phase, which will be held on Friday, December 28, will be ten minutes per part.
On the other hand, the final phase, which will take place on Saturday, December 29, will have twenty minutes per part.
The closing ceremony and the awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, December 29 at 2.30 p.m.
Finally, the Councilor for Physical Activity and Sports has encouraged citizens to visit Puerto Lumbreras to enjoy its cultural and sports wealth.
"Those who visit us during these two days will not only enjoy a great sports show, they will also be able to enjoy our heritage, our cuisine and our people".
The competition is organized by the Handball Federation of the Region of Murcia, in collaboration with the Handball Club of Puerto Lumbreras, the City Council of Puerto Lumbreras and the regional government.
Lumbreras Handball Club
He was born in August of 2017 with the main interest of offering a new sports alternative in the town.
During a year and a half of intense work, they have managed to consolidate a balanced team with signings from different points of the Region of Murcia and Almeria.
So much so, that during 2018 they remained leaders for seven consecutive days, being always among the first places in their category second national men.
One of its main objectives is to strengthen the foundations, so they have made their III Inter-school Day, involving a score of children.
Their greatest achievement, they affirm, is having achieved the Hispania Mediterránea Cup, which will take place on December 28 and 29 in the town, receiving visits from teams from different parts of Spain.
They have also been organizers of level 1 monitor courses handball specialty, thus forming all their monitors responsible for the smallest, which are basic in their training stages.
They also collaborated, during the two seasons of the Club's life, in two solidarity campaigns to collect food for the needy together with Cáritas.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras