The Bestial Race Series Naviera Armas 2022, presented yesterday at the shipping company’s new terminal at the Nelson Mandela dock in Puerto de La Luz and Las Palmas, will unite five islands of the Canary archipelago in its ninth edition, with obstacle courses in Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Tenerife, El Hierro and Gran Canaria.
The season starts on April 23 in Tuineje (Fuerteventura). Next, the event in Yaiza (Lanzarote) will take place on June 4. The next stops will be Santiago del Teide (Tenerife), on August 27 and El Pinar (El Hierro), on October 29. As a closing, the event reaches its original location, the Gran Canaria municipality of Arucas, on December 10.
The Bestial Race Series, in 2022, brings together for the first time “the favorite destinations” of its nine years of existence, according to Alfredo López, manager of BeSport, the organizing company.
The event, born in 2014, has already held a total of 27 tests, bringing together some 30,000 participants, who “have believed in a young sports project” that “prescribes islands under the premise of sport all year round”, offering an “offer varied, singular and attractive for more than 1,000 athletes from outside the islands and from Europe». For Alfredo López, the Bestial Race Series 2022 is a proposal that unites “playing sports and getting to know the Islands better”.
The Sports Councilor of Tuineje -the Majorero municipality in charge of opening the calendar-, Christian Cabrera invited the participants to join the event at the Playitas Resort on April 23.
This edition, “seeks to turn tourism around by betting on sports tourism, with quality tests that serve to retain a good tourist for the municipality,” he said.
The Councilor for Sports of Arucas, José María González, stressed that the Bestial Race Series is one of the “longest-lived and most consolidated” events in the municipality of Arucas, the original venue of the event and where the last test will be held again on December 10.
Sport “is safe”, González added, and it is “a refuge from the pandemic, for physical and psychological health” for which he has defined it as “the vaccine for athletes”. Likewise, he pointed out that sports tourism is “a new vein” that must be taken advantage of, for which he showed his commitment to the event.
The same idea was underlined by the Yaiza Sports Councilor, Ángel Lago, who celebrated that the Bestial Race Series returns to “running between volcanoes” with the only test that has “the charm of the sunset” due to its evening hours.
They are seven years of this sporting event in Lanzarote, recalled the mayor. He affirmed that it will be “a show” that he hopes the participants will enjoy and that it will strengthen sports tourism in Yaiza.
The sports councilor of Santiago del Teide, Juan Carlos González, stressed that for the municipality it is “very important to host the event again”, that with this test it returns to Tenerife in an “alliance that we hope will last for many years and add sporting events of quality”.
The mayor of Sports of El Pinar, Ithaisa Quintero, welcomed the return of the event to the island of El Hierro, where it was held in 2019 as the “greenest” event on the calendar, in the surroundings of El Morcillo, which “does not is available for sport every day”; therefore, this becomes “an opportunity to get to know him, as well as the entire Island.”
Among those attending the official presentation of the event, there were also the General Director of Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel López; the Councilor for Sports of the Cabildo of El Hierro, Tatiana Brito; the Councilor for Tourism of the El Pinar City Council, Magaly González; and the managers of Pelican Motors and Provital, Ignacio Vega Armas and César García, respectively.
“A reference” in its field
Naviera Armas, main sponsor of the Bestial Race Series, was represented at the official presentation of the ninth edition by its responsible sponsor, Darío Dorta, who was celebrating the opening of a new season of an event that “every year adds more municipalities » to become «a benchmark in the discipline» of obstacle courses. He also pointed out that private companies “have to support Canarian organizers”, because they have “enormous potential to create events that are, like this one, already looking at Spain and Europe”. For his part, Francisco Castellano, Sports Councilor of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, pointed out the “high level” of the tests that “unite the Canary archipelago more than ever”, something of which he confessed “satisfied and proud”. | Eph
