MADRID, 18 (EUROPA PRESS)

SEK Education Group, made up of SEK International Schools and Camilo José Cela University, inaugurated this Thursday the ‘Juan Antonio Samaranch, Marqués de Samaranch’ gym, located on the Villafranca Campus of Camilo José Cela University in Villanueva of the Cañada (Madrid).

The new pavilion has a track area of ​​44.44 x 31.49 meters, with official dimensions of 40 x 20 meters for handball or futsal. It also has the painted lines of volleyball, basketball and badminton.

The site is located in the UCJC Sports Club sports area, and its sports field allows you to play basketball, volleyball and badminton. Moreover, it can be divided into three spaces, which makes it easy to use by different groups at the same time. It also has four rooms for lessons and theory sessions.

This new space will also be used to host events, national team concentrations, training sessions and competitions for different teams.

During the inauguration of the new pavilion, the commemorative plaque bearing the name of Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) between 1980 and 2001, was unveiled. His son Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs, Vice-President of the IOC and member of the Camilo José Cela University Board of Trustees, attended the event.

“It is an honor that SEK Education Group names its new sports hall after my father. As my father used to say, sport and Olympism are a philosophy of life that allows human beings to live in harmony the with each other and breaking down the walls between people,” he said.

For her part, the president of SEK Education Group, Nieves Segovia, recalled her father, Felipe Segovia. “Athletes shouldn’t set limits. Sport is also culture and at SEK they have always gone hand in hand, as Samaranch said during the presentation of his wheelchair,” he said. he declares.

Camilo José Cela University has created the Marqués de Samaranch Olympic Chair which, in addition to honoring the former IOC Honorary President, aims to contribute to the promotion, development and dissemination of the Olympic movement.

SPORTS FACILITIES OF THE UCJC SPORTS CLUB

The UCJC sports club, with more than 140,000 square meters, includes tennis courts, paddle tennis courts, equestrian center, gym, 25-meter swimming pool with 5 lanes, soccer field, outdoor sports ground for indoor football, basketball, handball, volleyball and badminton, as well as multi-purpose and indoor cycling rooms.

In addition, the facilities of the UCJC Sports Club offer green areas, large parking lots with free charging stations for electric cars and two gastronomic facilities, El Pabellón and the Sports Café, with a terrace from which you can enjoy tennis matches, paddle tennis or equestrian competitions. .

COMMITMENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPORT

SEK Education Group has experience in training top athletes in different disciplines. The primary objective of the SEK International Sports Academy program is to provide students with comprehensive athletic, academic and personal development through individualized high performance athletic programs.

For former handball international José Javier Hombrados, president of the Madrid federation and sports director of SEK Education Group, SEK International Sports Academy is a project for his students to realize their dreams. “Even competing in the Olympics. We fully understand that the philosophy of SEK and UCJC is to help our students, and we work tirelessly for that,” he said.

SEK Education Group was the first private educational institution in Spain to offer high-level sports schools -currently tennis, swimming, horse riding, golf and skiing-, and was awarded the National Sports Prize twice, in 1988 and in 2010, and the 2010 Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) Award for Support to Sport and Olympism.