The Iberdrola Supera Awards reward, for the third time, the promotion of women's sports

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Updated Thursday, December 1, 2022-12:38

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Overcome, challenge or challenge yourself.

When we set our minds to it, people are capable of erasing the established limits to dare with causes that we thought were impossible.

All these efforts are what the Iberdrola Supera Awards want to recognize, where the last word that names these awards becomes especially powerful and gives meaning to their purpose: to recognize and give visibility to the best initiatives launched in Spain in favor of equality and the empowerment of women through sports practice.

In this area, promoting sport practiced by women, the Iberdrola company is a pioneer, having turned it into a key lever for the company and for the promotion of real equality between men and women, one of its essential values.

Not surprisingly, in 2016 it became the first company to make a firm and global commitment to equality and the empowerment of women through sport.

Today, the company supports 32 federations and names 32 leagues, all top flight, and 100 other

competitions .

And it is that reducing the gender gap in sport is a commitment to equality for women through excellence and translates into an important benchmark for girls, from their practice of physical and sports activity at all levels of the educational system, to show them that the path to federated and high-performance sports is also possible for them.

In what is already the third edition, the Iberdrola group has chosen the winners of its Iberdrola Supera Awards, endowed with €50,000 each.

It has not been easy among the 600 applications submitted.

An Honorary Jury to which the journalists Susanna Griso and Sonsoles Ónega and the former handball player Eli Pinedo have joined this year, and to which 11 other women and four men have joined, all of them recognized personalities from the world of sports and journalism Spanish (Carolina Marín, Manu Carreño or Vicente del Bosque, among them), have designated the winners in the six possible candidacies.

These are: grassroots sport, incorporation into competition, social integration, inclusion, diffusion and visibility, and mental health care (which opens this year).

Awarded

• Competition category winner: Club Deportivo Pingüinos Rugby Burgos

• Base category winner: Club Getxo Irristan (skate hockey)

• Inclusion Category Winner: Delikia Sports Club

• Social Category Winner: Algeciras Rowing Club

• Mental health category winner: AFFIT by Amparo Folch

• Broadcast category winner: Extremadura Digital Television EXTV

Grassroots sport among girls

In the "Supera Base" category, which recognizes and supports an activity, project and/or program related to the

up to the age of 16 (for the improvement of health, integration and the quality of life of people ), the Getxo Irristan Club was the winner.

In 2016 the Getxo Skate Hockey Club was founded, in which 60% are girls who every day turn a fronton into a hockey rink that does not have the regulatory measures.

And they want to be able to train and play at home.

The "

which values ​​the help for the incorporation of women into the competition, in any of its modalities, has gone to the Club Deportivo Pingüinos Rugby Burgos, which has shown that rugby is a women's sport and for women where everyone has a place.

His is a humble club that trains in a field where there are no sticks and where they cannot practice, for example, kicking.

Women capable of everything

The inclusion of women with special abilities in sports practice is also one of the commitments of the Iberdrola Supera Awards.

That is why the Delikia Sports Club has been the winner in the "

This is a club where every stride, those taken by the girls and boys with disabilities who belong to it, has been worth it and where Susana Rodríguez, Paralympic athlete and gold medalist in the triathlon category at the Tokyo 2021 Games, encourages and motivates the little ones.

They are the first students of an athletics project that wants to grow and become stronger, in which the children improve their self-esteem, gain independence and develop social skills.

In "Supera Social"

, the category that seeks to promote the

, the Algeciras Rowing Club has been awarded.

For the women who make it up, rowing is synonymous with freedom.

They do so under the acronym BCS (Breast

): women survivors of breast cancer.

The Andalusian Rowing Federation has temporarily loaned them a boat, but they need their own throughout the year.

Give wings to the little ones

Sustainable development and mental health care within the sports field is what promotes the award in the

category which, in what is its first call, has been for AFFIT by Amparo Folch.

Nearly 20% of children and adolescents of school age suffer from mental health disorders.

That all of them can agree to have a personal trainer, dream again, laugh or jump, interact with their peers is the goal of the award-winning program.

"Supera Difusión",

which values ​​the increased visibility of women's sports, has been the candidacy in which Extremadura Televisión Digital EXTV has been awarded, which wants to be the voice of Extremadura women athletes who have reached the elite (in paddle tennis , boxing...), but they are unknown.

How?

With a documentary series that tells his story.

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