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The sport in Jovellanos was almost void, because Jovellanos did not pass to be a little town with a stadium to play ball and the rest of the sports activities developed in the streets and humble patios of the houses. Athletes were forced to practice and to compete in the worst conditions, in order to sustain their families. For it only right after January 1, 1959 Jovellanos could begin to dream of a worthy sport and organized, dedicated and directed for your main leading man: The town.
In your beginnings, Sport´s General Management (DGD) was the commission entrusted to direct and developing a sports motion in Jovellanos; Presided at for the companion Víctor Secada Torriente and once this executive was fulfilled with: Domingo Hernández, Ruben Baro, Miguel Baro and Julius García Baro, it was located in the Lyceum's modest little room, today restaurant The Chick, appointment in the avenue 10 of our locality.
In the period 1959-1961 was in session a municipal full meeting to constitute the new organism in force today and was created on February 23 of 1961, being named after INDER. A site at the beginning was that was situated in the avenue 12 between 7 and 9 #:707 from where the executives and functions with the sport emitted, standing out for the most part the voluntary action of a lot of companions. The tender age of revolution were hard, however motivated him with the idea of constituting a motion of activities sports car recreational.
Their examples: Plans of the street were coming true, organized with the different organizations of mass, on the other hand tournaments and competitions in the Lyceum developed, finding the earthly one belonging to basketball there, Ping-Pong and at times boxing limits with boxers of the locality got organized, they found among themselves: Saviour Antonio Baro, Humberto Hernández and other ones.
For basketball he counted on several educated teams for: Mario Castañer, Hector Sama, Luis Servando, Tomás Leonard, Fresneli García, Julius Eraso and other ones.
It is good to stand out than in spite of coming true these activities in night-time hours and weekends there was not staff branded in the INDER to attend them, only Víctor Secada was in template. Some of these activities were coming true in Chess one practiced every night in a kind of Club that lived in John Ramon Nodarse Noda's house
The June 18 of 1964 the Instituto Nacional Piti Fajardo's first graduates were arriving, having like director the companion Luis García and two between 4 players of volleyball: Olivia Alemán and Eneida AEDE, a trainer of athletics: Roberto Ojeda, one of Balompie: Julius García.
With these companions he creates for himself the first municipal structure of the sport that comprised also the activities of physical culture and recreation. There were isolated competitions, fundamentally in the bordering farms to the municipality. Baseball as sport practiced himself always. This municipality has stood out for a lot of and very prominent figures, like Marcial Rionda, Tulio Eraso, Pepa Reyes, Ibraín Torriente, Raul López, Rigoberto Estrada, Wilfredo, Felipe, Armando, Fernando and Arturo Sánchez, Jorge Luis Valdés, Lazaro Contreras, Carlos Mesa, among others, although new figures like Yoandri Garlobo, Yosvani Fonseca, etc have happened.
With the force joined of the INDER and the MINED that also took part in these activities with your pupils, standing out with several first level places of region
They caught up with places put on the front in provincial guaranteed competitions by a great participation from the base. He already counted on required technical staff, but there was the scarcity of facilities, we had to concentrate in idiopathic Tania's first inpatient The Guerrilla Fighter to a body of professors sports
Later and with experience Matancera of the Poder Popular, in our municipality the structure of the sport consolidates, increased sports such I eat: Fencing, Biking, Weightlifting, Boxing, Chess and Ping-Pong. He creates the first sports concentrate then, located on the street 11 and site used today by the dry cleaner's. There they were getting ready athletes to represent the municipality in the different sports, like the boxers: Lucio and Lazaro García, Jose L. Rodríguez that gave medals to international level and were glories not only of the locality but also of the country.
For the need in the go-ahead municipality this great sports level motion of the schoolchilds and social, the opening of the CVD became twenty six of Julius, I quote in street 11, at the place that I occupied Acopio's center where next to the rest of the other facilities it continued developing the sports motion.
The composition of the areas was the following: Fencing, Ping-Pong, biking, judo, weightlifting, soccer, basketball, volleyball, athletics, baseball.
Today the municipality has 77 sports facilities, of them:
24 belong to the INDER
25 are attended by education
28 of other organisms.
The high-performance sportsmen have:
108 in the EIDE.
14 in the ESPA.
In national centers: 5 in athletics, 1 baseball, 3 biking, 1 volleyball, 1 scale
Within the sports glories of our municipality we count with:
- Leandro Peñalver Gónzalez Champion Panamericano that established record even not broken off by another sportsman
- Arcadio Ayón 8 times National Champions and Pan-American Champions in 70
- José EstradaOlympic Bi-Champion and World Champion of Baseball
- Yuneiski Abreu RolandoWorld champion in Games Paralimpicos
- Yasmani Sanchez Torriente Runner-up and Champions of
- Sectanis Terán Saturn, American runner-up Centro of scales in Saint Dominic
- Yoandri Garlobo Romay runner-up of the first classic of baseball
- Radamés Gonzáles TamayoPan-American champion 1986
- Radamés Torriente DeschapellesGold medal and Pan-American Champion in 1986
- Iraida García gold silver and juvenile bronze in the world championship
- Wilfredo Sanchez González. The man hit. Record in hit
- Jorge Luis Valdés Berriel. pitcher left-handed person