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'The University of Sport' is how UCAM is known in Spain and in Europe for its commitment in the sports field from all its aspects.
2016, about to end, has been the year of the consecration of this nickname, which reflects the tireless work and the strong commitment that is made from the teaching institution in favor of athletes.
The Rio Olympic Games, the successes of UCAM's professional teams, its hegemony at the University of Spain Championships and the important achievements of its researchers draw the big lines of a 2016 that is ending and that will go down in history as the Year in which the UCAM gave the great Olympic jump in its bet by the sport.
The second university in the world, behind Stanford (United States =, with more medals in Rio 16
The Rio Games 16 will mark forever the history of the Catholic University of Murcia.
More than sixty UCAM athletes participated in the Olympic event, and the results were spectacular, with fifteen Olympic medals (plus nine diplomas) and nine Paralympic medals (plus three diplomas).
Teresa Perales, (one gold, three silver and two diplomas), Mireia Belmonte (gold, bronze and diploma), Saúl Craviotto (gold and bronze), Maialen Chourraut (gold), Ruth Beitia Marcus Cooper Walz (gold), Cristian Toro (gold next to Craviotto), Gerard Descarrega (gold), Eva Calvo (silver), Artemi Gavezou (silver), Laura Gil (silver), Francine Niyonsaba (silver), José Manuel Ruiz Silver), Alfonso Cabello (two bronzes), Joel González (bronze), Lidia Valentín (bronze), Carlos Coloma (bronze) and David Casinos (bronze) reached the Olympic glory and placed the UCAM as the Olympic University par excellence in Europe , Only surpassed worldwide by Stanford (United States).
In addition, Mario Mola, athlete UCAM that obtained the diploma in the Games, made history also when proclaiming for the first time world champion of triathlon.
UCAM Murcia CB: historic season in the League Endesa and in the Top 16 of the Eurocup
The UCAM Murcia CB completed the best season of its more than thirty years of history.
For the first time, he signed a positive balance of victories and losses (18-16) at ACB, allowing him to make his debut in the play-off for the league title with eight teams and play for the first time in his history A European tournament, the Eurocup, competition in which, despite his status as a rookie, has qualified for the Top 16.
UCAM Murcia CF: promotion to professional football
The UCAM Murcia CF, after proclaiming champion of group IV of Second B, obtained the league championship of Second Division B, in which they militate eighty teams and obtained the ascent to the second category of Spanish soccer (LaLiga 1 | 2 | 3).
The university club is now struggling to adapt to the leap to professional football and maintain the category, but in the Copa del Rey has also experienced another historic moment when playing for the first time the six deuces and final against a rival of the Primera División (LaLiga Santander) And Europa League, Celta de Vigo.
UCAM Cartagena Table Tennis, the club with more titles in the Region, expands its showcases
In table tennis, the UCAM Cartagena has also closed a round 2016.
The women's team reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and managed to add a new title, the Queen's Cup.
The men together added the double by winning Liga and Cup. Both teams close 2016 leading the domestic competition.
Spanish University Championships: leader with 114 medals
In the university sport, UCAM has maintained its dominion of the last years surpassing again the one hundred medals in the Championships of Spain University.
With 114 metals (71 gold, 31 silver and 12 bronze), the Catholic University of Murcia was first in the medal, clearly highlighting the rest.
The Polytechnic University of Madrid (40 medals) and the University of Malaga (20 medals) were second and third respectively.
Recognition of the European Union for research and management work
UCAM's determined commitment to top-level research and teaching has also been reflected in sport.
For this reason, the European Union, through the European Athlete as Student network, congratulated the UCAM for its achievements in research and sports management.
In 2016 there have been numerous UCAM investigations related to sport, highlighting the study on drugs most used in doping cases (national prize in the Congress of Sports Medicine), the beginning of a European project to face the Social exclusion through sport, sports nutrition research to test the effectiveness of certain compounds when exercising, research to determine how mental fatigue affects decision-making in football players, another on the importance of Physical training on combat pilots to improve their skills or the development of a tool that allows coaches and coaches to have important data of their athletes in real time during training.
In 2016 has also been relevant the projection and international evaluation of the training of UCAM in the sports field as reflected especially in the graduate degrees of its Faculty of Sport, which have students from more than thirty countries, coming from the five Continents.
Source: UCAM
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