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After the 2017 Spanish University Championship and with the official results already confirmed, the UCAM is once again crowned as the first university in Spain with much difference over the rest.
The athletes of the Catholic University of Murcia continue breaking records and have been imposed on the general medal table clearly with 121 medals (73 gold, 26 silver and 22 bronze).
In second place has been the Polytechnic University of Madrid with 59 medals (20 gold) and the third place has been for the University of Valencia with 60 medals (9 gold).
The Madrid university is ahead in the medal because the golds won.
The spectacular results of the UCAM athletes confirm the great work that has been carried out for twenty years in the Catholic of Murcia that began climbing positions and currently dominates the medal with clearness overcoming for four consecutive years the hundred medals, an unprecedented milestone In the history of Spanish university sport.
For sports it is necessary to emphasize the results obtained in swimming (30 medals), athletics (21), orientation (12) and karate (11).
In team sports, gold has especially shone in men's football, in volleyball (male and female) and in men's basketball.
In the individual plot it is necessary to emphasize to the swimmer Mireia Belmonte that, with seven gold medals, has been the most outstanding athlete in this edition of the Championships of Spain University.
We must also highlight other swimmers like Melani Costa (6 golds) and Jessica Vall (5 golds and one silver).
But the great success of the UCAM in these championships has not been only thing of the Olympic ones.
Indeed, the basis of the triumphs is in university athletes who, without being in the elite or competing in international tournaments, are also great athletes and have shone with their own light in these competitions.
Students of diverse degrees that transfer the effort of each day in the classrooms also to the clues to obtain results that place UCAM well above the rest of Spanish universities.
The first University, also in organization of tournaments
In addition, the UCAM has proved to be the first University also in terms of organizational capacity as this year has organized ten final phases of the University Spain Championships.
The competitions have been developed in five municipalities: Caravaca de la Cruz, Cartagena, Murcia, San Javier and San Pedro del Pinatar.
Thanks to this, nearly 2,000 athletes and coaches from all universities in Spain have visited the Region of Murcia in recent weeks which is a major boost to sports tourism in low season season with hundreds of overnight stays in hotels in the Region.
A perfect excuse for thousands of young university students to know the Region of Murcia and become ambassadors to return to their places of origin.
Source: UCAM
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