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Sport is enormously popular in Águilas, and not just to encourage the local football team, which is over a hundred years old and is having a great season, but a large number of different sports are played and practiced.
One of the factors that favor sport is the climate, because all kinds of sports are possible all year round. In winter, we can see different triathlon or cycling teams training along our roads and pathways.
In Águilas, we have a total of 37 sports clubs, some of them with several teams in different categories, all of them in federation competitions.
The Municipal Sports Board comprises, both in its facilities and in the activities carried out, the vast majority of sportsmen, whether at federation or amateur level.
Age groups range from three years old in children starting swimming to people over the age of seventy who still take part in some sport.
Every year, new work is done and new activities are programmed to give users better service.
As for the activities carried out throughout year:
This activity takes place coinciding with the school year. A qualified monitor or trainer is in charge of each school. The list of schools is as follows:
ACTIVITY
MULTI-SPORTS
ATHLETICS
BASKETBALL
HANDBALL
SKATING
TRIATHLON
VOLLEYBALL
Every year, when "Three Kings' Day" arrives - 6th January - the ESPECIAL REYES MAGOS CYCLE RUN also arrives, at the end of which a large number of prizes can be won, donated by shops in the town. This event is participative and non-competitive. People of all ages can take part, on any kind of bike or even on roller-skates, skateboards or scooters. From November to approximately the month of May, the XVII LOCAL INDOOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE is held, involving a total of 20 teams, games being played during weekends. In April, the Football 7 Championship takes place, played on the football number 7 pitch, equipped with artificial grass, in the Municipal Sports Centre.
In the month of September the ÁGUILAS SPORTS GALA is held, which consists of rewarding the sportsmen and/or clubs who have been regional, national or even international champions in their respective sports over the previous season, and to recognize the merit and the promotion of sports carried out by the town's different clubs and associations.
There are two seasons for the swimming pool:
The winter season (Indoor, heated swimming-pool)
- Swimming courses
- Maintenance and corrective activities
- Sports training
- Fun pool
- Local and federation championships
- School swimming
- Special Education
Summer season (Outdoor swimming pool)
- Swimming courses
- Sports training
- Summer championships
Summer swimming courses each last three weeks. Three 3-week courses are held.
This is an activity intended for children at ages between 7 and 14 years old and which is carried out on La playa Delicias. A large number of sports and games activities are organized, such as water-polo, volleyball, gymkhana, life-saving, etc. A total of 4 two-week courses will be organized and they will start on the 28th of June. The registration period will start on the 21st of June.
All year round, different races on foot are held. The Municipal Sports Board has the collaboration and support of Clubs for organizing these activities. The most important races are:
- Christmas Cross-Country Subida al Castillo
DUATHLON
- Regional Duathlon Carnavales de Águilas
(a week before carnival starts)
TRIATHLON
Local Triahlon Marqués de Águilas
1 Swimming pool (indoor and outdoor)
1 Sports Complex (with climbing wall)
5 Tennis courts
1 Pelota court
2 Paddle courts
4 Multi-sports courts
1 Covered court (basketball, volleyball)
1 Football 7 pitch (artificial grass)
2 Football pitches (natural grass)
1 Skating rink
1 Gymnasium
1 Athletics track (synthetic flooring)
1 Assembly room
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