Individual Sports continue building up at the CADU

  • March 3rd, 2017
 
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The Universitat de València hosted yesterday the finals of the Autonomic Championship of University Sports (CADU) of the racquet sports which were played at the facilities of the sports centre Tutempo K7 in a session of celebration for the UV frontenis and squash teams, winners of the autonomics team competition.

Frontenis met the expectations of the selector, Cristina Ortiz, and won the CADU for the fifth consecutive year. Gold for the three categories (male, female and mixed) and gold in team competition. Something similar happened in the combined of squash which is conducted by Marina de Juan. Both, women and men won the silver and therefore the gold in teams.

On the other side, the badminton team, selected by Iván Gallardo, made a brilliant tournament against the Jaume I of Castelló returning home with medal in all the modalities of competition. The doubles partner formed by Noelia Vicente and Blanca Cruzado, winners of the gold, stood out. The insignias of the Universitat, David Siles and Bárbara Salinas, settled the autonomic with a bronze in the individuals. The third place was also for Santiago Jareño and Adrián Martín in the men’s doubles and for the tandem Salinas-Siles in mixed. “At the team competition we had the third place but it could be the first one because we tied the match with the Universitat de Alacant which was finally the second one to only one point of the winner, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche”, pointed out the trainer.

In chess, the Universitat de València won the gold in team competition. “Although there was a lot of tension with the Politècnica during the last rounds, we won and celebrated the triumph”, said the selector, Ramón García. At the female classification, the gold was for Míriam Marco and the bronze was for Ana Erades; and there was also a medal in the male modality, with the silver of Fernando Silva.

The Miguel Hernández hosted the CADU of orientation, where the Universitat de València made podium and won the medal, as set out the selector, Niclas Gil. At the team modalities the UV won the silver medal (the gold was for de Universitat d’Alacant) and in male category, silver and bronze with Cristóbal Camarasa (34’ 36”) and Sergio Mérida (39’ 44”), respectively. There was no podium for the female category, although two of the athletes of the Universitat were among the fist 10: Adriana Matulikova, seventh (49’ 44”) and Míriam García, ninth (50’ 42”).