CHENGDU, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — China added 10 extra gold medals to its assortment on the Chengdu Universiade, whereas three new FISU data have been set as swimming occasions kicked off right here on Tuesday.
Being a desk tennis powerhouse, China beat Chinese Taipei 3-0 and Japan 3-2 respectively within the males’s and girls’s workforce finals, with the combined doubles occasion beginning on Wednesday.
China bagged two gold medals out of 4 on the taekwondo occasions, as Song Jie defeated Kayir Ikra of Turkey within the ladies’s 67kg class, whereas Zhang Kai gained the lads’s 80kg title.
Fresh from the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Tokyo Olympic champions Zhang Yufei and Li Bingjie led China to victory within the ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relay with a time of three minutes and 37.51 seconds to set a brand new FISU document.
Shortly after Gallagher Erin Paige of South Africa broke the FISU document of ladies’s 50m butterfly within the semifinals, Zhang made it 0.43 seconds sooner.
Meanwhile, world champion Qin Haiyang of China additionally broke the FISU document within the semifinals of males’s 100m breaststroke, qualifying for the ultimate collectively together with his teammate Song Jiale.
China additionally claimed gold medals within the ladies’s diving 1m springboard, capturing males’s 10m air pistol particular person and girls’s 25m air pistol workforce, in addition to the ladies’s shot put and girls’s 10,000m on the opening day of observe and subject occasions.