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After more than seven days and se - ven nights in the dunes of the Mo - roccan desert, Alberto Sánchez, an operator for FCC Medio Ambiente’s selective waste collection service in Madrid, finished his participation in the Titan Desert Mountain Bike Race. Alberto, who made it to the last of the competition’s six stages, covered 645 kilometres and almost 6,000 metres of cumulative positive vertical drop between 8 and 13 May, wearing a very corporate outfit with the company’s Jose Antonio Hernández Castilla, an employee of FCC Medio Ambiente’s urban waste collection contract in Al - mería, has won The First 2022 Inter - national Masters Online Virtual Wei - ghtlifting FAMILY Championship, an international weightlifting tournament organised by the International Wei - ghtlifting Federation and held virtually last April. Among the successes achieved by Jose Antonio in this tournament were first place in Europe and third place overall in his category of under 45 years and 67 kilos. This sport is made up of two types of competition: the snatch and the two-stage deadlift. The sum of both events determines the total score. In the first, the athle - te managed to lift a weight of 84 kilo - Alberto Sánchez Pérez, an operative from Madrid’s selective waste collection service, successfully completes the Titan Desert race in Morocco José Antonio Hernández achieves success in weightlifting: virtual first place, two-time Spanish champion and European champion logo. He finished in 332nd place in the official classification and 93rd in his category, with an official time of 41 hours at a pace of 15.01 km/h. More than 500 people joined this great, complex and unique challenge full of emotions, effort and overco - ming, which has reached its sevente - enth edition and kicked off in the small town of Merzouga, located in the sou - theast of the African country, in the middle of the Sahara Desert. grams; and in the second, 102, lifting a total of 186. Likewise, and after competing in the 7th Spanish Masters Individual Weightlifting Championships held in Gijón (Asturias), José Antonio was twice Spanish champion and Euro - pean champion in the Master M45 category, up to 67 kilos. In addition, Jose Antonio is already preparing for the 2022 World Masters Weightlifting Championship’s, which will take place at the beginning of December in Or - lando (Florida), in the United States. Congratulations for these achieve - ments and good luck! P E O P L E 32 P E O P L E