Lauren Boyle of New Zealand during the final of the women’s 800m freestyle at the 26th Summer Universiade in Shenzhen.Photos by Xinhua
(L) Australian swimmers celebrate after winning gold in the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay. (C) China’s Lu Ying hugs a competitor after winning gold in the 50m butterfly. (R) Glenn Snyders of New Zealand after finishing the men’s 200m breaststroke.
NEW ZEALAND pocketed three of the six Universiade swimming golds at Longgang Universiade Center in Shenzhen on August,14th.
Glenn Snyders of New Zealand and Giedrius Titenis of Lithuania shared the 200m breaststroke gold medals in 2 minutes 10.85 seconds. Kazuki Otsuda of Japan won the bronze.
The women’s 800m freestyle was won by Lauren Boyle of New Zealand in 8:26.30 secs, while the silver went to Haley Anderson of the United States and the bronze to Melania Costa Schmid of Spain.
China’s Lu Ying won the 50m butterfly in 25.98 seconds, while Australian swimmers Marieke Guehrer and Alice Mills bagged silver and bronze.
The gold medal for the men’s 200m butterfly went to Laszlo Cseh of Hungary who finished in 1:55.87 secs with the silver going to Robert Bollier of the United States. Hidemasa Sano of Japan took bronze.
“It felt much better today compared with swimming at the World Aquatics Championship in Shanghai earlier this year. This has been my best performance this year but not as good as at the Beijing Olympics,” Cseh said.
Japan’s Ryosuke Irie won gold for men’s 200m backstroke in 1:56.01 secs. Australia won the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay in 3:40.03 secs while China settled for bronze.
(Wang Yuanyuan)
