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The mayor of Eagle, Mari Carmen Moreno, and the mayor of Sports, Christopher Casado, received yesterday to Pedro Vera, ultramaratoniano that has recently been placed in the first place world ranking of Roadsign Continental Challenge.
Vera, despite having grown up and live in Venezuela, a country which their parents migrated he still small, says she is very attached to Eagles, where he spent much of his childhood and where his family still resides.
Casado Moreno and wanted to extend its congratulations to Vera for its important sporting merit and for being, well, a great example of overcoming.
Vera was born with Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome, a heart abnormality at birth, came attached to a prognosis of no more than 18 years of life;
however the athlete managed to not only overcome the disease, but become a benchmark in long-distance marathons.
After passing through the consistory, Vera expressed his desire "to permanently move to Eagles."
sports curriculum:
In 2012, 2013 and 2014 completed the crossing Columbia, a race of 105 km crossing from Chile to Argentina in Patagonia.
In 2013 he managed to make The Jungle Marathon which according to CNN is the toughest race in the world with a total of 257 km through the Amazon jungle.
That same year completed the 50 kilometers in the mountains of Ecuador.
In 2014 he was part of the world circuit Roadsign Continental Challenge in Bolivia;
160 km crossing the Uyuni salt flat (Desert world's largest salt).
It has also completed the Ultra Race India (200 km with 5,000 meters positive);
Norway Ultra Race (160 km in the Lofoten islands 300 km north pole);
Ultra Africa Race (217 km in Burkina Faso);
Vietnam Ultra Race (160 through the jungles of Vietnam).
His latest feat was the Ultra Race for the second time Norway completing the 140 km in the Alps of Tromso.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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