HANDBALL

Agramunt vibrates with the Super Cup

The Municipal Pavilion of Agramunt, with a great public entrance despite the rain, welcomed the final of the Women's Super Cup in Catalonia on Wednesday, where the KH-7 BM Granollers has been proclaimed champion after overcoming the 'Lleidatana de Handbol Association for 40 to 25.

The game started with dominance during the first minutes of the Lleida team, but little by little the Valleys began to adjust the defense and improve the success in attack and replaced the scoreboard, and the dominion of the game, arriving halfway with 18 to 11 in favor of granollins.

At the resumption, the tonic was the same and the distances were widening, although the Lleidatana Association did not lower their arms at any time, the superiority in the category of the KH-7 BM Granollers was noticed and It meant that it was at the end of the game with the result of 40 to 25.

From the awards ceremony, which was attended by the Secretary General of Sport, Gerard Figueras, the Mayor of Agramunt, Bernat Solé, and the president of the Catalan Handball Federation, Jaume Fort, and the president of the CH Agramunt, Antoni Figuera, we highlight the award to the player of the Lleidatana Association, Irina Pop, as the top scorer in the game with 14 goals. While Kaba Gassama, the driver of the KH-7 BM Granollers, was chosen as the best player in the game, and the goalkeeper, also from the Vallès set, Andrea de la Torre, was the best keeper.

In this way the KH-7 BM Granollers is proclaimed champion of the Feminine Super Cup of Catalonia for the fourth consecutive year.

TRIATHLON

The CN Vic-ETB athlete wins the Barcelona Triathlon women's test demonstrating a high level in the final stretch of a season that started with some pitfalls

The Barcelona Triathlon crowned Marta Sánchez with great success in one of the most coveted stages of the season. The CN Vic-ETB triathlete won a very disputed women's test, where a very similar match could be seen that was decided in the last kilometers of the race on foot, when Marta Sánchez imposed her law to break the quartet formed by Laura Gómez, Anna Flaquer and Ana Mariblanca. A race end worthy of a spectacle of this great international event.
"This is a special test for me, since I started five years ago in this sport, I have participated every year," says Sánchez, 22. He started swimming in Barcelona, ​​where he was born and from where he left with the family at 6 years to go to live in Llinars del Vallès. Then he started swimming synchronized to the CN Granollers.
From the ages of 15 to 17, Joaquin Blume was residing in the Catalan syncopation technique group. When he stopped practicing the water sport, he began his adventure with the triathlon, pushed by his partner, who already practiced it.
Moving from one sport to another is not so easy. Adapting to run was the most complicated. In the second year, when he began to study Sciences of Physical Activity and Sports in Vic, he moved to the capital of Osona and began to compete, even more seriously, with Vic ETB. Due to this increase in the intensity of sports practice, he has suffered some injury.
Assiduous to the Catalan circuit, state competitions for teams are a little bit resilient. "We still have not got enough girls to compete in the club". In the international arena, the junior European played in the distance of sprint; when he went to sub23 category, with the change of distance - from this category the triathletes disputed the Olympic distance - it was not until the second year that he could "participate in the European and the World Cup"; International competitions that were lost this year due to an injury that left her out of the qualifiers. After recovering from this emotional blow, Marta has managed to face the final stretch of the season with all the forces. Bronze medal at the Spanish triathlon elite championship, held in early September, and the brilliant triumph of the Barcelona event a few days ago.
Now he is ready to compete again in order to be able to play, in the elite category, the World Cups and Europeans next year. Sánchez, like all athletes, is very clear about his ambition: he aspires to "do this sport, which is my life, my hobby, do it my profession". How "Training a lot and improve day to day to achieve the highest level."

SKYRUNNING

The Limone Extreme Skyrace closed the Skyrunner World Series one more year in Limone sul Garda (Italy), on the 13th and 14th.

Sheila Avilés (AE Matxacuca) has been the best among women in the 2017 edition of the Skyrunner World Series, championing herself. The excitement has remained until the last race, where the title was played with Laura Orgué (UE Urgellenca), which was second. Igualada still maintains the options to be proclaimed champion of the Vertical Kilometer World Series, which ends with the vertical of Fully, on October 21.
The feminine podium was closed by the Dutch resident in Catalonia, Ragna Debats (CEM La Cameta Coixa), which won the Olympus Marathon and Matterhorn Ultraks.
Jan Margarit (AE Moutain Runners del Berguedà) already gave us some detail of their quality in the previous season of the Skyrunner World Series and bets for the young Matadepera were going strong this 2017. Margarit has made the forecasts good and it's a ' He has embroidered the third place in the world circuit.
The Catalan Mountain Race Selection of the Federació d'Entitats Excursionistes de Catalunya (FEEC) has closed a new season of participation in the circuit of the world cup with a very positive balance. Edu Hernández and Eugeni Gil, among the top 10 of the Skyrunner World Series. Gil achieved his best result at the Buff Epic Trail Marathon, climbing to the first drawer on the podium. On the other hand, Hernández added his best result to Livigno, where he won the bronze and the women's selection team also signed important results this season with Laia Andreu (EU Vic). Andreu went to the podium of Livingo and Matterhorn Ultraks races.