Sporting Clube de Tomar (also known as Sporting de Tomar, SC Tomar and Sp. Tomar) is a Portuguese sports club from

Tomar Tomar (), also known in English as Thomar (the ancient name of Tomar), is a Portugal, Portuguese city and a municipality in the historical Ribatejo Portuguese Provinces of Portugal, province, and in Santarém District, Santarém district. The to ...

, founded on 26 February 1915. It has had particular competitive success and notability in the sports of

rink hockey Roller hockey (in British English), rink hockey (in American English) or ball roller hockey is a team sport played on roller skates. It is a quad-skate team sport where two teams face-off against one another, trying to drive a hard ball with t ...

and

artistic roller skating Artistic roller skating is a competitive sport similar to figure skating but where competitors wear roller skates instead of ice skates. Within artistic roller skating, there are several disciplines: * Figures: the individual follows the figu ...

. Its main men's roller hockey team plays in the Portuguese Roller Hockey First Division and won the Portuguese Roller Hockey Cup in 2023. Other sports practiced in the club are

billiards Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . Cue sports, a category of stic ...

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krav maga Krav Maga ( ; , ; ) is an Israeli Hand-to-hand combat, self-defence system. Developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), it uses techniques derived from aikido, boxing, judo, karate and wrestling. It is known for its focus on real-world situat ...

and

table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

. It is one of the most representative clubs in the

Centro Region The Central Region (, ) or Central Portugal is one of the statistical regions of Portugal. The cities with major administrative status inside this region are Coimbra, Aveiro, Viseu, Leiria, Castelo Branco and Guarda. It is one of the seven Regi ...

of Portugal due to its history, being the 1st branch of

Sporting Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

(Sporting CP). It has been distinguished with the Municipal Medal of Merit (Gold Grade) awarded by the Municipality of Tomar, the Medal of Merit and Leonine Dedication by Sporting CP, the Medal of Good Sports Services by the Portuguese Ministry of Education, and the Public Utility Entity (''Entidade de Utilidade Pública'') status in Portugal.

References

External links

Official website
Sport in Tomar Roller hockey clubs in Portugal {{Portugal-sport-team-stub