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The cycling event will be held next Sunday, 175 cyclists, 24 Spanish teams of them 4 from the Region of Murcia, completing with a foreign team from the United Kingdom.
The main novelty the change of route in relation to previous editions
In the Hall of Plenary Session of the City Council, the twenty-eighth Juan Romero Memorial Guerrilla Trophy and Diego Sánchez, the Spanish Cup in Elite and Sub23, where the Mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, have been presented. , Alonso Gómez, general director of Sports, Sergio Martínez, president of the Federation of Cycling of the Region of Murcia, Antonio Martínez Griñán, councilor for Sports and Youth, as well as the president of the organizing club Peña Ciclista Guerrita, Diego Sánchez Pacheco.
One edition plus 175 cyclists belonging to the 25 participating teams, 24 from eleven Spanish regions, including ours with four squads, to which we add a foreign team from the United Kingdom.
The main novelty this year is the journey.
Several years doing an identical route that this year varies mainly in the outside and in the mountain.
The mayor of Alcantarilla has opened the ceremony highlighting the strong support of the Region with the Trophy and Sewer, all in its different manifestations, not only in the presentation of today, but even days in our city, in the celebration of the Gala of Cycling of the Region of Murcia, the support also of the president of Hispaniola, José Luis López Cerrón, highlighting this event as the second most important cycling competition in our Region, having a relevant place in the national calendar.
He also pointed out the importance of the Guerrita Trophy and the great organizational work that the club demonstrates year after year to keep it within the Spanish Cup that gathers the most prestigious events in the country, with the best elite and sub 23 teams and the important participation of 175 runners, belonging to 25 teams, of which 24 are national, from eleven autonomous communities, with the participation of four teams from the Region of Murcia, in which we can see two cyclists, Miguel Ángel Ballesteros and David Espejos, both in the Valverde Team-Terra Fecundis and a foreign squadron, from the United Kingdom, the Zappis Racing Team.
The details and novelties of this twenty-eighth edition have been presented by Diego Sánchez Pacheco, president of the Peña Ciclista Guerrita.
The route of the test as a great novelty this year changes in relation to recent years, is increased by eight kilometers, disputed over 156 kilometers, not changing at the beginning of the same in the first 30 kilometers, with those six laps that are given to the already traditional urban circuit through the streets of Alcantarilla, with three flying goals in our main street (Kilometers 10, 20 and 30) and the variation is already in route as the peloton will march towards Sangonera la Verde towards Mazarrón and after El Cañarico change of road looking for the mountain by Alhama de Murcia and Pliego, go to Gebas and start the climb to 855 meters high of the port of La Perdiz 1st Category, on the slopes of the Marquis.
And here comes part of that novelty also in the mountain since surrounding La Perdiz, it goes up again for the second time, safely giving surprises already in the head of the peloton when it reaches the descent with 122 kilometers on its legs, looking again Alhama de Murcia and go back to where they did it in the first leg, arriving at Alcantarilla from Sangonera la Verde, along the avenue next to E.Lecrerc supermarket and the mattress of the Air Base, roundabout, Ejército del Aire (Aviocar), by Prince Avenue, pass by our Noria and La Huerta Museum, turn in Hero España, Calle Mayor and arrival at the Plaza de la Constitución to the finish line, from where it will leave at 9:45 in the morning, being the cut of tape ten minutes before and the presentation of the teams in the Adolfo Suárez square, from nine in the morning.
The estimated time of arrival at the best of times is around 1:30 p.m., as long as the first cyclist meets an average of 40 km / h.
Joaquín Buendía, as mayor of Alcantarilla, congratulated and thanked that this test has this continuity, being linked the image of the city and the region to it, and has wished the best of luck for all Murcia participants and singularly that of the cyclists sewers David Mirror and Miguel Angel Ballesteros, Valverde Team-Terra Fecundis, winner this past few days of the second edition of the Tour Guadalentín, in which many hopes have been deposited.
He has also made a reference to history, since the Trophy usually passes six times in virtually all editions, through the doors of the Museum of the Garden, being precisely this Saturday when we close with different institutional events its 50th anniversary, fifty years transmitting history, fifty years conserving our heritage.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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