Macadam Cup
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| colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 150%;"|The Macadam Cup |
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%;"|Contested by |
| style="text-align:center;"| King's College London
|style="text-align:center;"| Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine |
| First cup match
|2004 |
| Current champion
|GKT |
| Trophy
|The Macadam Cup |
| GKT Wins
|13 |
| KCL Wins
|5 |
The Macadam Cup is a varsity match played between the sports teams of King's College London proper (KCL) and Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine (GKT). The championship is named in honour of Sir Ivison Macadam, an alumnus of King's. Macadam also gave his name to a building at the King's Strand Campus, the location of the students' union (King's College London Students' Union).
History
Image:Macadam Cup 2008 presentation.jpg
The cup was first instituted in 2004 after an election pledge by the incoming President of the Students' Union, Michael Champion. The motivation behind the competition was not entirely focused on sports; Champion enjoyed large backing from the Health schools, and in a time where the political will of the college was to rebrand Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' (GKT) to KCLMS, Champion saw the event as an opportunity to enshrine GKT identity through the vehicle of a sporting event. The ulterior motive of the Macadam Cup was designed to make it increasingly difficult for Champion's successors to merge the GKT sports teams with the KCL ones.{{fact|date=October 2024}}
Sports
Since its conception, the Macadam Cup has grown in the number of sports contested. At present these include: Swimming gala, Water polo, Badminton, Squash, Hockey (men and women), Mixed fencing, Mixed tennis, Ultimate frisbee, Rugby (men and women), Netball, Lacrosse, Football (men and women) and Cricket.{{fact|date=October 2024}}
Sports and presentations are mainly held at Berrylands and occasionally shared with Honor Oak Park Sports Ground with the day ending a Results night in KCLSU's Tutu's night club.{{fact|date=October 2024}}
Results
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! Year ! Date held ! Winner ! Events won ! Events won |
| 2004
| 8 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 10 |
| 2005
| 22 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 17 |
| 2006
| 15 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 9 | align="center" | 18 |
| 2007
| 21 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 7 |
| 2008
| 27 February | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 8 |
| 2009
| 25 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 9 |
| 2010
| 31 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 10 |
| 2011
| 30 March | bgcolor="#c90016" | KCL | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 6 |
| 2012
| 28 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 11 |
| 2013
| 27 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 8 | align="center" | 9 |
| 2014
| 26 March | bgcolor="#c90016" | KCL | align="center" | 9 | align="center" | 6 |
| 2015
| 25 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT{{Cite web|title = King's Sport - A great contest on display by all students... {{!}} Facebook|url = https://www.facebook.com/KingsSport.ac.uk/posts/10152829710986006|website = www.facebook.com|accessdate = 26 November 2015}} | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 9 |
| 2016
| 23 March | bgcolor="#c90016" | KCL | align="center" | 9.5 | align="center" | 3.5 |
| 2017
| 29 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT (4-1 on penalties) | align="center" | 8 | align="center" | 8 |
| 2018
| 30 March | bgcolor="#c90016" | KCL | align="center" | Score Unknown | align="center" | Score Unknown |
| 2019
| 27 March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | GKT | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 10 |
| 2020
| Not played due COVID19 | - | - | - |
| 2021
| Not played due to COVID19 | - | - | - |
| 2022
| 4th April | bgcolor="#ffffcc" |GKT | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 9 |
| 2023
| 29th March | bgcolor="#c90016" |KCL | align="center" | 8 | align="center" | 6 |
| 2024
|27th March | bgcolor="#ffffcc" |GKT | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 8 |
From its inauguration in 2004 to 2010, King's College London had yet to win the Macadam Cup, leading to chants of "You'll never win Macadam". In 2011, 2014 and 2016, and 2018 KCL won the Macadam Cup.{{fact|date=October 2024}}
In the event of a tie, the Macadam Cup is ordinarily determined by a 'Tug of War'. In 2017, the winner of the cup was decided on football penalties, carried out by members of 5 different sports, which GKT won 4–1.
External links
- [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ King's College London]
- [http://www.kclsu.org/ King's College London Students' Union]
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