BRONZE MEDALS BOOST BRITISH HAUL
By Lee Taylor | 16 August 2007
There were more medals for Great Britain on day six of the World University Games in Bangkok, as two bronze were claimed on the track and another won in the pool, at the Rangit campus at Thammasat University.
On one of the hottest days of the Games so far, Charlotte Best set a new PB to finish third in the women's 800m, whilst the women’s 4x400m relay team also came home third. In the pool, Darren Mew (University of Bath) was the other medallist as he claimed a podium place in the 50m breaststroke, to take Britain's haul to nine.
Best finished in 2:01.50 behind Yuliya Krevson of the Ukraine and Russia's Ekatevina Kostetskaya to grab Britain’s third medal on the track and was delighted with the result, especially given the tight schedule of the event.
“I’m so surprised I ran a PB after three races in four days,” said the Loughborough student. “As far as the race iself is concerned, I remember going past the girls in fourth and fifth to get myself into contention, but after that it’s a bit of a blur,” she added.
The penultimate event of both the evening and the athletics programme saw Britain’s 4x400m relay team win bronze. Kelly Massey (Liverpool John Moores), Laura Finucane (Loughborough), Kadi-Ann Thomas (Brunel) and Faye Harding (Loughborough) recorded a time of 3:33.70 behind the Ukraine and Russia to finish third, with Thomas winning her second medal in as many days. The medal also made up for Finucane’s disappointment at finishing outside of the medals in the 800m. Meanwhile Richard Hill (UWIC) came seventh in the men’s 800m.
In the pool, Mew’s time of 27.95 saw him grab Britain’s third medal in the pool behind the World record holder Oleg Lisogor of the Ukraine and Brazil’s Felipe Ferreira Lima. Also this evening, Terri Dunning of Wolverhampton University finished just outside the medals as she came fourth in the women’s 200m butterfly. Team manager Ciaran O’Brien was pleased with the performance of his squad, especially as the quality of the opposition was so high.
“The standard here has been a real jump from previous Games,” he said. “This was a good opportunity for our swimmers to test themselves against a field of this quality, and all things considered I’m pleased to be going home with three medals.”
Elsewhere Britain’s golfers got their campaign underway in style as Anna Scott (Georgia State) ended the day at the top of the leader board with a round of 71 (one under) in the women’s individual event. In the men’s equivalent, Charles Ford of Tennessee University was fourth, having gone round in the same score. As a result the women’s team lie first overall and the men sixth, going into tomorrow.
In diving, Gary Hunt (Southampton) performed a consistent list of dives to achieve a personal best and qualify for the semi-finals – where he proceeded to better his previous score. However it was not quite enough to reach the final and he finished in 16th place.
In judo Gemma Gibbons of the University of Bath, and Thomas Davies (Buckinghamshire Chilterns) performed strongly to reach the last eight of the -70kg and -81 kg classes respectively, whilst Hannah Sinfield (Bath) made the last 16 of the -63kg.
Britain’s water polo team were edged out 6-5 in an incredibly tight affair against Australia in their quarter-final. They will now play again to decide where they finish within the last eight.
Robert Searle’s packed tennis schedule caught up with him in the searing heat as he went out of the men’s singles at the quarter-final stage. The number 11 seed from Rice University contested a tight first set against the fourth seed An Jae-sung of Korea, losing on a tie-break, but he faded in the second to lose 6-7 0-6.
At Bangkok’s Impact Exhibition and Convention Centre, the men’s epee team made the last 16 before falling to Hungary in fencing, whilst in the table tennis, Shaun Marples (Sheffield Hallam) and Chris Brown (UWIC) exited the doubles tournament in the second round, with Marples losing out in the first round of the singles and Brown the second.
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