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Meeting of the jury for the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports
24 nominations encompassing 11 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the fourth of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 43rd year.
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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports will meet this coming 17th and 18th May in Oviedo. This is the fourth of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 43rd year. A total of 24 candidatures encompassing 11 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Reconquista Hotel.
As stated in the Foundation’s Regulations, the Princess of Asturias Awards are aimed at rewarding “the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. In keeping with these principles, the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports is to be granted at “careers which have become an example of the benefits that practising sports can bring to people, via their promotion, fostering and advancement of sport and sense of solidarity and commitment.”
Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.
The members of the Jury will hold an initial meeting with the media at 11:00am on Wednesday 17th in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos” reception room (first floor) immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am, after the group photograph. Each jury shall have a chairperson and an acting secretary. Both shall be appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and shall have voice and vote.
The Jury’s decision will be announced at 12:00 noon (GMT+2:00) on Thursday 18th, in the “Salón Covadonga” reception room in the same hotel (ground floor), following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.
Composition of the Jury
The Jury will be made up of the following persons:
- Teresa Perales Fernández (chairwoman)
- Theresa Zabell Lucas (acting secretary)
- Abel Antón Rodrigo
- Teresa Bernadas Porto
- Gemma Castaño Vinyals
- Cristina Cubero Alcalde
- Joaquín Folch-Rusiñol Corachán
- Juan Ignacio Gallardo Tomé
- Patricia García Rodríguez
- Vicente Jiménez Navas
- Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra
- Lluís Mascaró Serra
- Guadalupe Porras Ayuso
- Julián Redondo Pérez
- Samuel Sánchez González
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