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Swimming, badminton and chess: our athletes keep competing at the highest level

  • Web and Marketing Unit
  • February 29th, 2024
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UV athletes keep bagging medals on all disciplines.

On Tuesday, 27 a badminton competition was held at the facilities of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, where the UV team won 2 golds and 3 bronzes, as well as the teams bronze.

On Wednesday, the Cardenal Herrera University held a swimming competition in which the UV swimmers took a total of 24 medals on a variety of categories. Of them, 7 were golds, 11 were silvers and six were bronzes, as well as the teams silver.

Lastly, also on Wednesday, 28 February, the chess tournament of the Autonomous University Sports Championship (CADU) was held at the Universitat Jaume I. It was a thrilling competition given the high level of the contenders. The UV took silver and bronze on the men’s category, as well as gold on the teams category.

You can check the complete medal table of these competitions next:

Chess

  • José Manuel Nieves Cabanes, silver
  • Francisco Rubio Tent, bronze

Team Classification: gold

Badminton

  • Men’s singles: 
    • David Polop, silver.
    • Lorenzo Adell, bronze.
  • Women’s singles:
    • Llucia Vázquez, bronze. 
  • Men’s doubles: 
    • David Polop y Gabriel Saiz, bronze
  •  Women’s doubles: 
    • Fourth in the rankings 
  • Mixed doubles: 
    • Lorenzo Adell y Llucia Vázquez, silver

Team Classification: bronze

Swimming:

GOLD

  • Men’s 200m styles: Mikel Bonal Hernández
  •  Women’s 100m backstroke: Paula González Miralles
  • Women’s 200m breaststroke: Sofia Gómez Giner
  • Men’s 200m breaststroke: Mikel Bonal Hernández
  • Women’s 50m backstroke: Paula González Miralles
  • Men’s 200m butterfly stroke: Tomás Maxwell Mackenzie Lucas
  • Women’s 50m butterfly stroke: Carla Hurtado Sirera

SILVER

  • Women’s 100m butterfly stroke: Núria Pastor Pino
  • Men’s 100m butterfly stroke: Tomás Maxwell Mackenzie Lucas
  • Women’s 400m freestyle: Lola Caballero Fuset
  • Women’s 200m backstroke: Clàudia Marco Montoro
  • Men’s 50m butterfly stroke: Carlos Carrascosa Herráiz
  • Women’s 200m butterfly stroke: Andrea López Simón
  • Men’s 200m freestyle: David Blanco Sánchez
  • Women’s 4x50m styles: Lola Caballero Fuset, Carla Martínez Martínez, Lucía Isable Sánchez Checa, Clara Oltra Benavent
  • Men’s 4x50m freestyle: Samuel Herraiz Marín, Miguel Bou Bernabeu, Carlos Carrasco Herraiz, Jaime Laparra Navarro
  • Women’s 4x50m freestyle: Claudia Marco Montoro, Andrea López Simón, Sofia Gómez Giner, Carla Hurtado Sirera

BRONZE

  • Women’s 200m styles: Clàudia Marco Montoro
  • Men’s 100m breaststroke: Ferrán Valdés Gregori
  • Men’s 400m freestyle: Joan Cahvarría Mitjavila
  • Women’s 50m butterfly stroke: Clara Oltra Benavent
  • Women’s 200m freestyle: Lola Caballero Fuset
  • Men’s 4x50m styles: Mikel Bonal Hernández, Tomás Maxwell Mackenzie Lucas, Ferran Valdés Gregori, Marc Montagud Espada

Team Classification: silver

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