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Eduardo Sánchez, a second-year student of Classical Philology, has won four medals representing the University of Murcia at the Spanish University Swimming Championships, held in Castellón.
Sanchez has competed in the modality of adapted swimming and has managed to get three silver medals in 100 meters back, 50 meters back and 50 meters freestyle;
and a bronze medal in 100 meters freestyle.
Sanchez has participated in these championships along with five other boys and a girl who have competed for the University of Murcia, although he has been the only representative in adapted swimming.
"The truth is that I'm very satisfied with what I've achieved, it's not the first time I've won a medal in a university championship, but I've never had such a good result," explains Eduardo.
For him, the most important thing of the experience is "the visibility that has been given to adapted swimming, since we have been able to compete in the same series as the rest of the participants in the championship and this seems very important to promote inclusion on the sport".
Eduardo Sánchez has spina bifida and assures that, in his case, swimming has been fundamental in order to have a better quality of life.
For this reason, he encourages "all people, but especially those who have a disability to practice sports, because I, thanks to swimming, am not in a wheelchair".
Nothing since he is seven years old and trains every day between three and five hours a day to achieve his goals;
an activity that, he says, perfectly matches his studies at the Faculty of Arts.
In the university swimming championships, around 300 young people from 57 universities around the country participated.
The University of Murcia has been ranked 16th in the medal table.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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