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Roundup: Russia quickens pace of winning gold medals at Universiade

Xinhua, July 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Russia quickened its pace of winning gold medals at the ongoing Gwangju University Games, adding seven more to its tall on Friday.

Following a dominant sweep of six gold medals on track and field on Thursday, the Russians extended their momentum on Friday to capture five more titles at the Gwangju Universiade.

Russians finished one-two in women's 20km walk as Anisya Kirdyapkina managed a new Universiade record of 1:28:18. Her compatriot Marina Pandakova followed up in 1:29:52 and China's Hou Yongbo clocked 1:32:42 to secure a spot in podium. Russia also won the team title of the event.

Ekaterina Sokolenko set a tournament record of 9:25.77, followed by her countrywomen Natalia Vlasova's season best of 9:35.99 for the gold and silver medals in the women's 3000m steeplechase. Turkey's Ozlem Kaya had 9:37.79 in third.

Daniil Tsyplakov gave Russia the fourth title in athletics on Friday as he leaped over 2.31 meters in men's high jump to edge off Slovakia's Matus Bubenik's 2.28m. Chinese Taipei's Hsiang Chun-Hsien shared a height of 2.28m to settle in third for the second highest jump count deficit.

Aleksei Kharitonov completed the harvest for Russia when he ran a personal best of 3:39.13 for the men's 3,000 meters title. Abdelali Razyn of Morocco and Staffan Ek also managed personal best of 3:39.20 and 3:39.68 respectively for podium berths.

Russia also won two swimming golds on Friday. Russian quartet won the men's 4X100m medley relay title in 3 minutes 34.56 seconds and Rozaliya Nasretdinova touched home at 24.91 seconds for the title of women's 50m freestyle.

Russia now has 26 gold medals to its credit, only two behind China for the third place on medal table.

With two gold medals each from shooting and table tennis, one from swimming and one from taekwondo, China maintained its second place on medal table with 28 gold medals.

On the last day of shooting competitions, Asian champion Yang Haoran finally found his form by winning the title of men's 50m rifle 3 position. China also won the gold of the team event.

China turned out the big winner of shooting tournament at Universiade with gold medals from 34 events. South Korea also enjoyed a good performance by taking 6 golds.

Zhou Yilin won the women's 200m butterfly title, the fourth from the swimming pool for China. She was timed at 2:07.69.

Guo Yunfei won the first taekwondo for China at Gwangju Universiade as she beat Chuang Chia-Chia of Chinese Taipei 10-9 for the title of women's 67kg category.

Chinese paddlers won the table tennis women's team event after beating Chinese Taipei 3-1 and the men's team gold was also taken by China after beating back a strong challenge from Japan 3-1 in the final.

Host South Korea managed only one gold on Friday as it won the men's 10m air pistol team event with a total of 1,722 points.

But South Korea still stays on top of medal table with 31 gold medals. Endi