HISTORY

Since its inception, providing quality athletics to the public has been the main objective of the Ordizia Meeting. We have also succeeded in making it an attractive event for athletes.

JOSE ANTONIO PEÑA

On January 17, 2015, José Antonio Peña Lizarraga passed away after several years of work at Txindoki Atletismo Taldea. He was a reference in athlete training and promoted athletics at the local, regional, and even national level.

On July 5, 2025, we will celebrate the IX Ordizia Meeting - International Meeting José Antonio Peña. This event, which began in 2015 in memory of José Antonio Peña, a member of the Txindoki - Grupo Jaso Atletismo Taldea, reaches its ninth edition this year.

He started as a coach at the Ordizia athletics club in the mid-80s, and held various positions at the club for 30 years. Alazne Furundarena, Iker Sukia, Odei López... and dozens of other athletes worked alongside him.

He was a Spanish athletics judge and held positions in the athletics federations of the Basque Country and Gipuzkoa, and had close relations with those who managed athletics at the national level. For his work in showing and promoting athletics, the Ordizia City Council and the Ordizia Sports Committee awarded him the town plaque in 2007 for his work in favor of sports over the years. It will be difficult to fill the void he left in Goierri athletics.

GROWTH

The Ordizia Meeting has grown since its first edition. It was included in the RFEA calendar from the beginning and since 2022 it has been part of the Challenger category of the World Athletics Continental Tour. In the 2025 edition we will go one step further and it will be part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze category.

In the 2023 edition, we managed to have the best athletics meeting in the Basque Country, the sixth in Spain and the 121st in the world:

1. 33 Madrid, 86030 pt

2. 56 Huelva, 83254 pt
3. 75 Castellón, 81466 pt
4. 90 Barcelona 80522 pt
5. 92 Andújar, 80432 pt
6. 121 Ordizia, 78599 pt
7. 189 Salamanca, 76598 pt
8. 195 Bilbao 76313 pt
9. 215 Málaga, 75609 pt
10. 228 Granada, 75251 pt
11. 249 Pamplona, 74578 pt
12. 259 Nerja, 74302 pt

2024 results

GENDER PERSPECTIVE

In the last edition, there were 227 athletes competing. The number of men and women was very close.

WOMEN

MEN

%44

%56

ORIGIN OF ATHLETES

Although Basque athletes were the majority, athletes came from almost every corner of Spain, mainly from Castile and Leon, Catalonia and Madrid.

57 Gipuzkoa

24 Navarre

20 Biscay

17 Castille and Leon

12 Catalonia

10 Madrid

8 Aragon

7 Álava

5 Asturias

4 Andalusia

3 La Rioja

3 Valencia

2 Cantabria

2 Castilla-La Mancha

1 Balearic Islands

Regarding foreign participants, there were 52 athletes from 27 different countries, both from Europe and other continents. They accounted for 23% of all participating athletes.

SPAIN

FOREIGNERS

%77

%23

The majority of the foreign athletes came from Europe, but there were also athletes from South America, Africa, and Oceania.

175 Spain

7 United Kingdom

5 MaroccoBrazil

5 Australia

4 Chile

4 Ireland

4 France

2 Mexico

2 Turkey

2 Italy

1 Colombia

1 Puerto Rico

1 Portugal

1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

1 Kenya

1 Eritrea

1 Netherlands

1 Norway

1 Burundi

1 Uganda

1 Algeria

1 Lebanon

1 Estonia

1 Cuba

1 Argentina

1 Croatia

1 Sweden