The City Council Receives the “Active Running Cities” Designation from the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation

As part of the ExpoDeca 2025 fair, the Tenerife Island Council received the “Active Running Cities” recognition from the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation in support of regions that promote running and race walking through safe and accessible infrastructure, policies, and high-quality events, an award that was accepted yesterday by the island council’s Sports Minister, Yolanda Moliné, from Marcos Moreno, the head of the “Active Running Cities” project, making it the first supramunicipal territory to receive this distinction at the national level.

Yolanda Moliné emphasizes that the Tenerife Island Council is “proud to receive this recognition as part of Expodeca, because it confirms our commitment to an active lifestyle in general and to running in particular, always in collaboration with the island’s municipalities.” “At the Department of Sports, we work to promote sports participation and active mobility, confident that the measures we’re implementing benefit the entire community by transforming our cities into more active, healthier, more sustainable, and more inclusive environments.”

The Sports Minister states that the “Active Running Cities” project “not only aligns with the principles we have established across various pillars of our strategic sports plan, but also serves as a necessary tool for improving the services we provide and for ensuring the continuity of the construction and infrastructure projects that will need to be carried out in the coming years to promote physical activity and sports in all their forms. This applies both to programs and services related to track and field, running, or walking, and to the infrastructure and spaces designated or developed for these activities.”

It should be noted that this federation-wide standard will help reinforce the multidimensional impact of sports on the island’s sustainable development, and its scope has the potential to involve the vast majority of citizens, regardless of their goals or circumstances.

It would also become an ideal tool for implementing new policies related to health, physical activity, sports, and tourism, capitalizing on the impact that sports and health have on the public.