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The Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) will have twelve swimmers, part of the Spanish selection, in the XVI World Swimming Championships held in Kazan.
The competition takes place between July 24 and August 9.
UCAM athletes will represent Spain in fourth disciplines: open water swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo.
The participation of Mireia Belmonte, who had made six minimum to participate in a pool and in open water, is still unknown.
It depend on how his injury this week.
The Cartagena Marga Domínguez will actually be in this discipline.
For testing pool will be a large representation of swimmers UCAM: with Mireia Belmonte (if finally participate) will Melani Costa, Duane da Rocha, Jessica Vall, Judit Ignacio, Bea Gomez, Marc Sanchez, Juanmi Rando and Victor Martin.
In synchronized swimming, one of the team members, Clara Camacho, is also a student at the UCAM.
Finally, Jennifer Pareja is the Spanish National Waterpolo as captain looking to defend the title of world champions.
Athletes and students
UCAM athletes have the opportunity to combine his studies with training and competitions through a tutoring system designed especially for them.
This model of the Catholic University of Murcia, inspired by the Anglo-Saxon universities, has attracted the attention of the European Union has launched a project led by the UCAM own, to export this model to other universities in the UK, Italy, Greece and Malta.
In the list of athletes who study in more than sixty UCAM Olympic upscale as the swimmer Mireia Belmonte (student of Advertising and Public Relations) athletes, the walker Miguel Angel Lopez (student of Sciences of Physical Activity and Sport), the motorcycle rider Juanfran Guevara (student of Business Administration), the canoeist Javier Hernanz (law student) or taekwondo Joel González (student of the Master in Occupational Hazards).
They are just some examples that illustrate how to work and support the sport of UCAM providing an opportunity for these athletes to advance their education while training and competing.
Therefore, Kazan in the World are already twelve swimmers of this university will be representing Spain.
In August at the world championships to be held in Beijing, there will be a large representation of athletes studying at the UCAM.
It is becoming less strange that these athletes can study.
An opportunity that was unthinkable not long ago and today is a reality.
Source: UCAM
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