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The first edition of this event, which was presented today at the Palace Hall and is included in the city program at the Arena Sports will be held on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August at the beach of the Sirens

The best beach volleyball players of Spain will be this weekend in La Manga, and will do to participate in the first edition of the Sun tournament, a tournament of international character will develop on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August, on the beach of the Sirens.

The event, sponsored by the City of Cartagena by the Department of Sports and Sports program in the Arena 2013, together with the Department of Tourism, is organized by the Spanish Association of Beach Volleyball, and details of the same have presented Today the mayor of Sports, Diego Ortega, and the director of the tournament, volleyball player Pedro Miralles Cartagena.

There will be two days of intense sports activity, already ahead Miralles, which begin at 9 am and end at 9 pm, uninterrupted develop, in an enclosure that will occupy 4,000 square meters of sand on the to install multiple tracks and a grandstand with a capacity for 400 spectators.

The finals, male and female, will be played on Sunday, starting at 6 pm, and at 8 pm there will be the awards ceremony, to be attended by the Councillor for Sports, Diego Ortega.

The highlight, the participation of high-level athletes, as the Spanish female partner formed by Elsa Baquerizo and Liliana Fernandez Steiner, who were runners-up in Europe last week and have confirmed their attendance at the Sun Tournament Pedro Miralles As pointed out, the male European champions, Spanish also, they can not come to be recovering from an injury, but if you make many athletes from countries like Venezuela, Brazil or Russia, and local players.

The event has a capacity for 24 male pairs and 24 female partners, representing about 100 players competing in this spectacular celebration of sport stage with La Manga.

Numerous sponsors have made ​​it possible to count with 4,000 euros in prize money to be shared between both categories, which makes this tournament is the one that has more financial incentives in Spain this summer Durantes an important incentive in attracting to large partners who excel in this sport.

Diego Ortega also noted the important work of the technicians of the Department of Sports, who work and strive for that initiatives like this can become a reality.

Apart from Pedro Miralles, whose long career has taken him to play first-class foreign leagues and accumulate years of experience in the world of beach volleyball, the event features local player Javi Mecca as coordinator.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena