The Estepona climbing wall will host this weekend the Andalusian Climbing Championship in School Age.

The event will take place on June 1 and 2 and will bring together 120 climbers from different Andalusian provinces.

The Estepona City Council informs that next June 1 and 2 will be held the Andalusian Championship Climbing Difficulty, Block and Speed in School Age Individual and Provincial Selections in the new Municipal Rock Climbing Estepona located in the Fairgrounds and Sports.

The event is organized by the Estepona Mountain Group, GRUME, and the Andalusian Federation of Mountain Sports, Climbing and Hiking, with the collaboration of the City of Estepona, and sponsored by the Provincial Council of Malaga.

The mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, stressed during the presentation of the event that this tournament “is possible because we have these facilities. Having made the municipal effort to build this innovative and pioneering facility, one of the most important in Spain outdoors, now allows these events”. In this sense, he added that “not only amateur athletes will come to train every day to this climbing wall, but also professional athletes are starting to come to compete against each other and enjoy these facilities”.

The councilor thanked the support of the Provincial Council, as well as the Andalusian Federation of Mountain Sports, Climbing and Hiking, and GRUME for the celebration of this event and the activities that are being developed.

From the Provincial Council, Javier Diaz, Director of Sports, has highlighted the “commitment of the Consistory Esteponero for sport, for new sports infrastructure and the organization of events. A work in line with what we have been doing from the Provincial Council, and that is why Estepona will always have our support.

The presentation ceremony was also attended by the councilman attached to the delegation of Sport, Luis Gil, and the sports director of the Andalusian Federation of Mountain Sports, Climbing and Hiking, Rodrigo Sanchez Garrido, who stressed the importance of climbing, made Olympic sport, and has advanced that the results of the championship to be held this weekend “will form the Andalusian team that will compete in July in Burgos”. For his part, the director of the test and member of the Mountain Group of Estepona GRUME, Francisco Luis Jimenez Rodriguez, stressed that “this championship gives us an opportunity to promote this sport among children, also in an event with solidarity.

The championship will be held on Saturday June 1 in the morning and afternoon, and Sunday June 2 in the morning.

The categories that are called for the Championship of Andalusia are reflected in the Rules of Climbing Competitions of the Andalusian Federation of Mountain Sports, Climbing and Hiking:

– Infantile: Athletes who turn between 12 and 13 years of age between January 1 and December 31 of the year in which the competition is held.

– Cadet: Athletes who turn between 14 and 15 years between January 1 and December 31 of the year in which the competition is held.

The maximum number of participants shall be 120, about 15 per province.

The classification will be made according to the following criteria:

– Individual Classification: The competition will be held in Mixed Modality (Block and Difficulty) and in Speed Modality.

– Classification by Provincial Teams: Each member of the Provincial Team will add the number of points that corresponds to his place in the final individual classification. All the points of all the members of the Provincial Team will be added, regardless of whether it is complete or not, and trophies will be awarded to the first three teams classified in the children’s category, in the cadet category and in the general classification.

The Estepona climbing wall, the largest outdoor climbing wall in Spain, is located in the Fair and Sports Grounds and became operational last March. The activities are carried out by professionals from the Club Grupo de Montaña de Estepona (GRUME), a well-known entity in the municipality that has been training at the municipal climbing wall at the El Carmen Sports Center since 2005. This entity, which is registered with the Andalusian Federation of Mountain Sports, Climbing and Hiking, has a climbing school that will now be expanded with more workshops and courses in the new facilities.

The climbing wall-rocodrome has been designed for the following practices: difficulty mode, speed mode and bouldering mode. It has a complete surface of 662 square meters, divided for the practice of the different modalities foreseen in this discipline: speed zone (115 square meters), difficulty zone (363 square meters) and bouldering zone (184 square meters).