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Universiade: China wins first gold, USA tops medal table on Day 1

Xinhua, July 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

China took the first gold medal on offer while the United States clean swept the three swimming titles on Saturday, the first full competition day of the 2015 Gwangju Summer University Games.

Host South Korea broke the first world record at the Universiade on Saturday when its female archers Ki Bo-bae, Choi Mi-sun and Kang Chae-young combined for a 2,037 points in the preliminary to break the world record of women's recurve team event.

China won the games' first gold medal in the women's 1-meter springboard diving as Zheng Shuangxue collected 286.20 points to beat Kim Nam of South Korea to the second place at 274.95. Another Chinese diver Sun Mengchen was less than two points behind for the bronze medal at 272.85.

Peng Jianfeng gave China the second gold medal of the day when he led the six-dive final all the way before winning the title at 515.30 points. He was followed by Evgenii Novoselov of Russia in the second place at 473.90 and the bronze medal went to Daniel Alejandro Isas Arroyo of Mexico at 441.85.

Swimming powerhouse United States won all the three event on Saturday as Sarah Henry clocked 4 minutes 38.88 seconds for the title of women's 400m individual medley. U.S. men's and women's 4x100m teams also claimed victories at 3:15.85 and 3:38.12 respectively.

Japan was the biggest winner of Saturday's judo competitions with two gold medals, the other two judo events were split by South Korea and France.

South Korea and France again split the two fencing titles with the games' host winning the men's individual sabre through Song Jonghun, and France pocketing the women's individual epee gold thanks to Dimodi Laurence.

Sunday will see the beginning of shooting and gymnastics competitions and a total of 22 gold medals will be up for grab. Endi