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Created on: 07. December 2023

Awards and acknowledgments at the II. MATE Sports Gala

MATE Sports Gala was organized for the 2nd time where the university athletes and GEAC athletes were awarded. Another success was signing a four-side agreement between GEAC, our university MATE, Török Ignác High School and the Dunakeszi School District Centre. In this agreement these institutions are closing their relationship in sports, science and university studies.

The Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences has a big goal since it's establishment, developing sport opportunities and showing a model for competitive sports and university studies together. As Dr. Csaba Gyuricza, rector of MATE and president of MATE-GEAC summrized our university organized 11 MEFOB Championships and many other competitions on national level to become a well known and strong institution in Hungarian sports life and also the athletic team has already won more than a hundred national championship medals, reached 34 podium places at international level and we have more than 20 national team members.

Sports and studies developing next to each other is a very important goal for MATE and the athletic team as well. We belive that the university studies are essential for an athlete to be able to compete at the highest levels and to find future opportunities after the comptetitive sports carreer. To show a model, our universtiy is signing agreements to build an infrastucture and system for young students and lead them through their studies while offering great sports opportunities. At the gala a four-side agreement was signed between MATE-GEAC as the acthletic club, MATE as the University, one of the best Hungarian high schools the Török Ignácz High School and as the maintainer the Dunakeszi School District Centre. This is a milestone for these institutions because this way students have a support in this dual life course model from their young ages untill their university degrees. Through this way there is a huge opportunity for young athletes to develop, reach their goals in their studies and sports carreer, represent MATE and MATE-GEAC at every possible level.

As this years results were summarised, awards were given to the best atheles related to our university and sports club. The award for the University Athlete Of The Year was given to Eszter Dénes, who finished 3rd at the University World Championships, the Universiade in Chengdu. This is the first medal for MATE in Universiade history, the highest level of univeristy sports.

At MATE-GEAC Athlete Of The Year categorie on the women Eszter Mészáros was awarded, who was the most successful shooter in 2023 with 2 world cup wins, 2 world cup dilver medals in mixed team, European Games win and European Champions League win. In the men categorie Csanád Gémesi was awarded. Csanád won several world cup medals and gold medal at the World Fencing Championships. This means that the Hungarian National Fencing Team mathematically qualified for Paris 2024 Opimpics Games. The Trainer Of The Year award was given to József Navarrete, trainer of Csanád who's experience, expertise and work for our team is resulting in a huge developments for fencing inside MATE-GEAC.

Our young athletes were also awarded in men and women categorie as well. On the women side Sarolta Kriszt became the Athlete Of The Year who won several gold medals in track and field (heptathlon) at national and international level, broke two national records and reached top10 in four events. On the men side Ármin Leasták, long distance runner was awarded, who also reached many podiums through 2023 in national level and qualified for the 2023 U23 World Championships in 3000m Steeplechase.