Yucatan will enter the history of winter sports in Mexico: the ice rink of Ice Galleries will dress up next weekend with the realization of the Third Regional Latin American Interclub Figure Skating on Ice.
This is the first time that Mexico will host of this event (previously it was in Peru and El Salvador) and the Mexican Federation of Ice Skating and Winter Sports selected Mérida to accommodate 250 skaters from eight countriesin addition to the hosts.
The competition will take place from Thursday, October 30 to Sunday, November 2 and skaters will come from Peru, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Mexico.
On Monday, early on, the Mexican Olympian Donovan Carrillo He conducted clinics on the Merida track, where competitors from 5 years old up to senior and Olympic levels will be seen. Donovan is the main reference that this sport has in Mexico.
Ana Luisa Aguilar Gamero, president of the Mexican Federation, highlighted the fact of coming to Mérida, “to a safe city, with facilities like few in the country, and with high-level skaters who are making themselves seen during a weekend that will be historic.”
The launch of the Latin American was attended by the president of the local Association, Sara Moisés Chapur, as well as the Ice Gallerie rink directors, Beatriz Pino Macari and Elda Esquivel Millet, who spoke about “Special feelings for having dozens of skaters in this home who will enjoy a great event, the facilities and everything that Mérida and Yucatán have to give them.”
The Latin American will be carried out Thursday of 11 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon and of Friday to Sunday from 1 in the afternoon to 10 at night, with free access to all activities.
The Ice Gallerie rink is about to turn 15 years old and, said Mrs. Pino Macari“step by step we have consolidated. The Federation has supported us a lot and that today they have chosen us as their headquarters fills us with pride.”