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March 17, 2009
Alcoa Fjardaál signs sponsor agreement for UMFÍ National Competition in July 2009
Co-operation agreements were signed today between the Icelandic Youth Association (UMFÍ) and five companies regarding the 26th UMFÍ Annual Competition held in Akureyri 9-12 July this summer. The main sponsors of the National Competition are Alcoa Fjardaál and KEA. Other sponsors include Icelandair Group, Saga Capital and Landsbankinn (National Bank of Iceland).
Today, one hundred years have passed since the Icelandic Youth Association’s first national competition was held in Akureyri, North Iceland, and the anniversary will be celebrated with diverse events during this summer’s National Competition. The central venue for the events will be in a new sports field in Akureyri, run my Thor Sports Association, and almost every sport facility in Akureyri will be more or less utilized for all the days of the competition. Surely, many other events related to the national competition will make Akureyri a town sizzling with life in the middle of July this summer.
Participants in the national competition will assumedly be over a thousand, and the organizers expect 10-20 thousand attendees. There will be around twenty different kinds of sport competitions, eight occupational competitions, five introductory ones, plus some sport events for senior members of the Youth Association.
“The collaboration agreements signed with these five companies are some of the main prerequisites that make it possible for us to host a grand Icelandic Youth Association’s national competition in Akureyri this summer and celebrate the one hundred year anniversary of the national competitions, right here where it was held. In the economic turbulence that has hit the country during the past few months nobody can take for granted that companies are willing to cooperate on an event like the UMFI National Competition, but we’re lucky to get the understanding and goodwill from these companies, for which we’re very grateful. There is obviously much support for sustaining a traditional event like the National Competitions. It is now in our hands, the organizers, to prepare for a grand, memorable anniversary National Competition, and we will definitely stand up to that challenge,” said Kristján Thór Júlíusson, president of the UMFÍ National Competition committee.
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