CHENGDU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — China’s Li Jiangyan and Xu Xinying took gold and silver medals within the ladies’s hammer on the FISU World University Games right here on Saturday.
Li threw 70.77 meters on her first try, and made a breakthrough in her final throw with 71.20 meters to develop into the one competitor to exceed 70 meters. Xu’s greatest throw got here at the start, with 69.45 meters.
Finland’s Urho Kujanpaa received the lads’s pole vault together with his second try to achieve 5.55 meters.
The ladies’s triple bounce gold went to Turkey’s Tugba Danismaz, who leaped a private better of 14.31 meters.
Germany’s Antonia Kinzel completed 59.18 meters in her second throw to be the ladies’s discus gold medalist.
Portugal’s Mariana Machado completed in 16:02.58 to notch the ladies’s 5,000 meters gold, adopted by China’s Xia Yuyu, the ladies’s 10,000 meters winner, in 16:04.00.
“I would achieve nothing without my team, because they really support me. It is really important to have them with me in Chengdu,” stated Machado.
Japan’s Toyoda Ken received the lads’s 110 meters hurdles title in 13.40 seconds, adopted by China’s Ning Xiaohan in 13.44 seconds.
“I am not very satisfied with the result. My goal is to finish in 13.40 seconds. I tried to overtake the Japanese opponent in the last few seconds but failed,” stated Ning.