European Master Athletics Championships Indoor

Braga receives the EMACI 2022

The Council of the European Association of Masters (EMA) decided to assign Braga the organization of the thirteenth European Veterans Indoor Championships (EMACI), a competition aimed at athletes over 35 years of age, separated by age groups every five years and will take place, from February 20th to 27th, 2022, on the six-lane track of the new Altice Forum, located in the center of the city.

The Altice Forum Braga, which opened last September and has undergone complete refurbishment for two years, in an investment of eight million euros, transforming the former Exhibition Park into a new space of excellence in the north of the country, is equipped with latest generation that allows it to host fairs, congresses, exhibitions, sporting events and others of socio-cultural, scientific and educational nature.

This is the first time that Portugal has hosted the two championships, played every two years and which in 2018 had as its stage Madrid, with an estimated presence of about 10,000 people, including athletes and companions, which will have a significant impact on the city. economic.