The CSD renews the pavement of athletics module of CAR de león

▪ the high council of sports allocated €300,000 to improving the living conditions of indoor track

▪ the reform will benefit the athletes who make use of facilities

Madrid, 26 december 2023.-The high performance centre de león has released this month of december, the new flooring indoor track, to the reform of the high council of sports has designed a 303.695,36 euros.

The new track has been built with materials that ensure greater absorption capacity of impacts, with a balance between comfort and hardness, which would significantly reduce the risk of overloads and injuries.

In León routinely train approximately 200 athletes, half of them athletes. This includes the caster olympic weight Carlos Tobalina Toimil and bethlehem and the young promise María Forero, champion of Europe sub-20 in. In Addition, throughout the year more than 1,600 athletes make use of these facilities during rallies and recurrent activities which hosts the CAR.

“ count with better facilities will help us to keep growing as a centre and to provide a means to achieve optimal results, "he says the director of the CAR of león, Daniel Mateos. With this work, performed in 45 days, the council For sports continues to consolidate its bid to improve training conditions of the high-level sportsmen, turning High performance centres in centres of excellence and innovation.

High performance centre de león

The complex was opened in 2010 as a specialized centre for High Performance of athletics, already in 2015 when was reclassified as high performance centre (CAR) to become the fourth centre of its kind in Spain, together with those of Madrid, Sant Cugat (Barcelona) and the Sierra Nevada (Granada).

Currently, not only has facilities sporting events, but also with resources for the analysis of yields through biomechanics and physiology and services for the protection of health of sportsmen, as sports medicine, cardiology, lawyers, rehabilitation and physiotherapy, psychology. In total, some 2,000 athletes use throughout the year of the facilities of the CAR of Leon.