Valencia has been voted unanimously by the European Capitals of Sport Association to be the European Capital of Sport in 2011. Other candidates for this award were Birmingham, Barcelona, Budapest and Brussels.

The European Capital of Sports Award is an incentive for local administrations and their sport departments to fulfil a fundamental and decisive role in the making of the fabric that contributes to improving the general level of health of the inhabitants in a country, through the culture of healthy and physical exercise. Its tasks consist in the formulation of sport policies for the development of infrastructures and management models that favour sport to facilitate the development of social integration processes of the more disadvantaged groups of society: the disabled, the elderly, teenagers in risk situations and migrants.

This commitment of Valencia to the sporting sphere, is clearly seen through the wide variety of local sporting activities, and the world-class events that place the city as a reference in this field. Among the most important ones we find Formula 1, Tennis Open 500 (ATP),  World Motorcycling Championship and the  Global Champions Tour.

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