The Sports Festival puts Iași on the map of sports competitions for amateurs

Several thousand sports fans, athletes, volunteers and spectators alike, participated at the end of last week, between July 15-17, at the Iași Sports Festival. Being at its first edition, the Festival is organized by Camps and Circuits of Running, Skiing and MTB with the support of IMPACT Developer & Contractor and the City Hall, and of many other sponsors, as well as the local authorities of Iași.

Intended to be an annual event, this year the Festival included no less than seven sport events: trail running, road running, mountain biking, obstacle race, sports orientation, children's race and the race for persons with disabilities. The races were configured in order to highlight the beauty and cultural heritage of the Moldavian capital city - the Palace of Culture, the Boulevards Ștefan cel Mare and Copou or the Exhibition Park, as well as modern sights, such as: the Palas Mall or the Greenfield Copou residential complex. In fact, Iași recently obtained the title of "Tourist Destination of the Year 2022" in Romania, and the last weekend Festival put the city on the sports tourism map.

In addition to the actual sport trials, during the three festival days, sports workshops and projections of films and documentaries were organized. The sports events for adults gathered over 500 registered participants, and 300 children registered for the event dedicated to them. More than 160 volunteers took care of the good organization of the event and several thousand other spectators encouraged the athletes in each of the three days of festival. The general ranking of the competitions as well as the actual times obtained by the athletes can be consulted on http://festivalulsporturilor.ro and on the official Facebook page of the festival.

"Together with IMPACT Developer & Contractor, we managed to organize a large-scale event, in a completely new area for us, but an area with enormous sporting potential. The success of the event was due, on the one hand, to the more than 13 years of experience our team has in organizing large-scale sports events, such as Marathon7500 - one of the toughest mountain running competitions in Romania, and, on the other hand, to the support we got from IMPACT Developer & Contractor. Thanks to them, we were able to deliver an event that raised the standard of sports events in Romania," said Silviu Bălan, the main organizer of the event.

In the "Events with Impact" series supported by IMPACT Developer & Contractor, the Greenfield Baneasa Sports Festival will follow between September 16-18.

"The idea of the Sports Festival was born from our desire to develop sustainable communities, while healthy lifestyle and quality socialization are essential for the well-being of a community members", says Gheorghe Iaciu, the main shareholder of the Festival's main sponsor, IMPACT Developer & Contractor, being also a passionate sportsman of several disciplines.