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"With the 'I Memorial Antonio Sarabia Garci'a' we want to honor our countryman, recently deceased, and who has appreciated and loved so much in our municipality and in the cycling family of the Region of Murcia".
This is how the mayor of Las Torres de Cotillas, Isabel María Zapata, who presided over the presentation of this cycling event on Monday, August 20, in a ceremony in which the Councilor for Physical Activity and Sports, Ginés Pérez, also participated. president of the Cycling Federation of the Region of Murcia, Sergio Martínez, and the representative of 'Ciclos Sarabia' José Francisco Sarabia.
A sporting event that will be held next Friday, August 24, coinciding with the beginning of the town's patron saint festivities.
This will be added to the 'I Junior Challenge Vuelta a los Comarcas Región de Murcia', whose third and final stage will conclude at Las Torres de Cotillas that day.
"It is an official test of federated character scoring for the national ranking, it will cover a distance of 113 kilometers and it will have an urban route," says Pérez, who stresses that "this is how a competition that had been celebrated at the regional level since 1984 is recovered. but that disappeared from the cycling calendar several years ago ".
Another souvenir for Sarabia
In addition, just one week later - Friday, August 31 - will celebrate another year the 'Day of the Bicycle', which this year and will forever bear the name of the ill-fated Antonio Sarabia.
"With this appointment we want to honor his memory as a tribute and honor for his passion and commitment in the promotion of this sporting event, as well as cycling in general both in our town and throughout the Region of Murcia," says the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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