Russia Defends Honor, China Improves Much at Universiade

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Russia Defends Honor, China Improves Much at Universiade

Russia defended its honor by winning the most medals in total and seperately in gold, silverand bronze at the 21st World University Games which concluded Sunday in Tarvisio of Italy.

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Russia defended its honor by winning the most medals in total and seperately in gold, silverand bronze at the 21st World University Games which concluded Sunday in Tarvisio of Italy.

China improved much by capturing six golds, two silvers and twobronzes, compared to a count of 0-3-5 two years ago.

Russia, which won 31 medals, as many as those two years ago in Poland, dominated the Games by taking 11 golds, 10 silvers and 10 bronzes out of 55 events after Sunday's victories in the men's andwomen's biathlon relays.

Russia won the men's 4x7.5km relay with a time of one hour 14 minutes and 8.8 seconds, beating Belarus to the second place and Ukraine to the third. In the women's 3x6km relay, Russia won again,while Ukraine ranked second and Belarus third.

However, Russia were three gold medals shy of the last edition in Poland, where they took 14-9-8 for gold, silver and bronze.

All of the 10 medals Chinese won came from their short-track skaters, including Cheng Xiaolei's three golds in the women's races. Cheng also won the most gold medals at the games.

China won their last two golds on Sunday through Zhu Mile in the women 's 3,000m and Ma Yunfeng in the men's 3,000m.

Ukraine also surprised the games with seven golds, four silversand three bronzes. Skiers from the country challenged the Russianson the snow, especially in the biathlon events, where Ukraine won all their seven gold medals against Russia's three.

Ukraine took only 1-1-2 medals in the last winter Universiade.

The Japanese triumph in the Nordic combined on Sunday showed that they were the best in the event here. Norihito Kobayashi won the last gold medal of the Nordic combined competition after the 7.5 km cross-country sprint. He was followed by his teammate Junpei Aoki.

All three Nordic combined gold medals helped Japan collect fivegolds in all, sharing the third spot in the gold medal standings with another Asian country South Korea.

South Korea, who took two golds from ski jumping races, won twomore golds Sunday in the short-track men's and women's relays. Buttheir golds were three less than last edition of the games where they got eight, all from short-track speed skating.

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