Popolana - a fun sporting event taking place under the slogan With Sports from Streets and Squares to Nature and Tourism
Popolana is a three-day humanitarian event featuring an exciting array of sports competitions, gastronomic events and entertainment. Money is raised by selling T-shirts and flowers and donated to associations for people with special needs
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Rovinj every year dedicates the last weekend of April to Popolana, a large sports and recreational, gastronomic and humanitarian event. This was the seventh edition of Popolana, organized by the Town of Rovinj, its Sports Association, Tourist Board and
Popolana is a three-day humanitarian event featuring an exciting array of sports competitions, gastronomic events and entertainment. Money is raised by selling T-shirts and flowers and donated to associations for people with special needs. The event comprises sports events for preschool and school children and competitions open to amateur athletes (everyone is welcome, of course) in the following categories: artificial rock climbing wall, rowing simulator, chess tournament, aerobics, basketball, electric darts, Nordic walking, Popolana 2013 Cycling Race, Rovinj Half Marathon (22 km), 5K race, sport fishing and underwater fishing. All fish caught during the competitions will be used in the preparation of gastronomic delicacies for all of the Popolana participants. The expected turnout is 1,500 participants.
26.4. Friday
9,30 – 11.00 Program for kindergartens with Maistra animmation team
11,00 Brass Band and Majorettes
11.00 – 14.00 Program for Rovinj´s school
27.4. Saturday
08,00 – 13,00 Championship in Spear-fishing
08.30 – 12.30 Sports fishing contest (Valdibora)
10.00 – 13.30 1+1= million steps / „Popolana“ Children friendly / Enterteinment program/ Rovinj exercise
10.30 – 13.30 Chess Tournament (Hotel Adriatic)
13.30 – 14.00 Awards Ceremony
14.00 – 15.00 Weighing of caught fish and Awards Ceremony
15.30 – 18.00 Open tournament in electric darts
16.00 Cycling race
16.05 – 17.30 Day of Children´s tennis/ Street basketball / Basketball training ground/ Tae-kwon-do, Aikido, Karate presentation
17.30 – 18.00 Awards Ceremony
28.04. Sunday
10.00 9th Rovinj´s half marathon (21.095 km)
10.00 Recreational race (5 km)
11.05 Majorettes
12.00-13.30 Awards Ceremony
13.00–15.00 Tasting of fish dishes - KPA „Rovinj“- „Batana“
14.00 Rovinj Brass Band concert
The event will also feature a humanitarian action. All proceeds will go to the Rovinj Association of People with Disabilities.
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1,700 participate in Popolane
Rovinj every year dedicates the last weekend of April to Popolana, a large sports and recreational, gastronomic and humanitarian event. This was the seventh edition of Popolana, organized by the Town of Rovinj, its Sports Association, Tourist Board and the company Maistra. The event’s slogan “Moving from the streets and squares to nature and tourism with sports” attracted many volunteers and friends who helped organize this three-day event. Popolana’s aim is to, besides promoting sports and a healthy lifestyle, enrich its tourist offer and acquaint the public with volunteer and humanitarian work.
An important part of Popolana is the humanitarian action “1+1=million steps“ which sells t-shirts with the Popolane emblem and other handicrafts made by the hard working hands of numerous Rovinj citizens who are raising money for those who need it the most.
The first day was marked by its youngest participants, children and students of Rovinj schools, who showed everything they know on the town’s Main Square. They were joined by the Rovinj Brass Band and Majorettes. The second and main day of the event was full of various sports competitions including sport and underwater fishing, bicycle tours, chess tournaments and recreational and professional dance group performances.
The last day was devoted to the traditional recreational five- kilometer run and the central event was the 9th half marathon of twenty one kilometers, where the best results were achieved by Elisha Save from Kenya. The first in the five-kilometer race was Christian Gallo from Rovinj. Running in the race beside people with disabilities was the marathon runner Mirjana Kmačić Pellizzer and her special guest – the blind Italian distance runner Tulio Frauo. All the athletes were also supported by a very special guest – Lisa Stublić, the top Croatian distance runner.
