7 September 2009
TATIANA MORATÓ WINS THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
The Championship was held the last weekend and it was organised by the University of Algarve.
The University of Málaga obtained the fifth position in the teams competitions.
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Nevertheless, the winner of the Championship was Tatiana Morató, who not only dominated every of her female rivals, but who occupied the tenth position in the general classification of the championship (men-women). She was only beaten by the men competitors of the three Irish Universities and the University of Ulster, who won medals in both men’s individual and men’s team competitions. Tatiana Morató got up the podium with Urska Kocjan, from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and winner of the silver medal, and with Michalina Valaskova from the University of Minho (Portugal) winner of the bronze medal.
The following universities were present in the Championship: the Irish Universities of Maynooth and Cork (gold and bronze in the team’s competitions respectively); the University of Ulster, representing the United Kingdom and North Ireland (silver); the Portuguese Universities of Oporto, Algarve and Minho; the Polish University of Economics and the University of Warsaw; the Slovakian Universities of Business and the University of Ljubljana; the Universities of St. Gallen and Lausana representing Switzerland; Darmstadt for Germany and Málaga representing Spain.
The team from Málaga was composed by Tatiana Morató in the women’s category and by Fernando Moreno, Ángel Acha, Fernando Pérez-Bryan, Ignacio Valverde and Andrés Moncayo in the men’s category. The University of Málaga profited of its presence in the European Championship to promote the next World University Golf Championship 2010, which will be held in Antequera at the end of this academic year.
Tatiana Morató, student of the University of Málaga, won the European University Golf Championship in the women’s individual competition, organised in Algarve by the Portuguese University. During the competition – which took place in the golf course of Pestana Golf-Vale da Pinta in Lagoa, venue for the European Senior Tour, the last weekend – the University of Málaga struggled hard in the teams competitions till the last minute. However, the three places in the podium were finally occupied by the Irish Universities and the University of Ulster. Our students obtained the fifth position among the fourteen participating universities.
