Puerto Vallarta will host the Pan American Badminton

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Under the instructions of the mayor of Puerto Vallarta Demetrio Ramon Guerrero Martinez, the director of the Municipal Sports Development Council and Youth Support (Comufodaj) Juan Rincon Flores, said that they are in the best disposition to support in whatever is needed by the Organizing Committee of the 22nd edition of the Pan American Junior Badminton Championships.

"So far, the only request we have received by the Committee, is to facilitate municipal auditorium facilities for the training of the 17 delegations attending this competition, and the corresponding writs with permissions are already issued to use the property from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm daily, except Sunday. "

The XXII Pan American Junior Badminton Championships will be held from July 21 to 28 having as headquarters the Hotel Canto del Sol facilities

To publicize the details of the Children and Youth Pan American Badminton, a press conference was held yesterday, in which the city of Puerto Vallarta was represented by Juan Rincon Flores and Miguel Angel Arreola Palacios, Director and Coordinator of the Leagues of Municipal Sport Councils, and there was also the presence of the President of the Mexican Federation of Badminton, Engineer Javier Orozco and Armando Cosilión Limón of the Organizing Committee.

The event involves 353 players from 17 different countries in the categories: Sub11, Sub13, Sub15, Sub17 and Sub19 and in the case of the latter category the event is a qualifier for the Youth Olympic Games to be held in China.

From July 21 to 23 there will be team-play, while from the 24 to the 28 the game will be of singles, for which the area of ​​hard surface tennis courts was adapted to position eight badminton courts.

The participating countries in this event are: Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.

[readon1 url="http://notivallarta.com/2013/07/20/recibira-puerto-vallarta-el-panamericano-de-badminton/"]Source: NotiVallarta Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]