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By Lee Taylor | 16 August 2007

Athletics, badminton, gymnastics, football, swimming and tennis were all underway today.
In the pool, Michael Rock of Manchester University just missed out on a medal in the 200m butterfly final, touching home in 1:57.98, whilst Commonwealth silver medallist Euan Dale (Loughborough) finished sixth in the 200m breaststroke final - despite recording a new PB of 2.13:78. Elsewhere fellow Loughborough student, Joe Roebuck, qualified for the 200m butterfly B final, finishing fourth.
On the track, the Men’s 4x100m relay team narrowly missed out on a podium fibnish by a hundredth of a second. Darren Chin (St. Mary’s), Simon Farrendon (Leeds Metropolitan), Ryan Scott (University of Bath) and Simeon Williamson (Middlesex University) won their heat to ease through to the final this evening, but were pipped on the line to bronze by China in a race won by the host nation.
William Sharman of Loughborough made it through to the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles but was unable to qualify for the medal race, and both Richard Buck (Leeds Metropolitan) and Kelly Massey (Liverpool John Moores) qualified for the next rounds of their respective 400m events.
Gymnast Carolyn Fyfe qualified for the individual final.
Both football teams were in action, with the men staging a brilliant comeback to thrash Morocco 4-1, and Laura Harvey’s women bouncing back from an opening defeat to China with a 2-0 victory over Canada. The men top their group after two games, with the women still in with a shout of qualification going into their final match against South Africa.
In the team event, Britain’s badminton squad eased past Uganda 5-0 to set up a mouth watering clash with Indonesia tomorrow, but in tennis, the women’s doubles team of Katherine Baker (University of Bath) and Hannah Grady (University of California) were not so fortunate, losing 3-6 6-7 against the sixth seeds from Korea.
Tomorrow sees the athletics continue, with Simeon Williamson and Ryan Scott looking to bounce back from their relay disappointment in the heats of the 100m, and 2005 bronze medallist Martyn Bernard (Liverpool John Moores) featuring in the high jump qualifying and, in swimming, Terri Dunning (Wolverhampton) is amongst the British stars going for glory.
The men’s team are in action in Gymnastics, whilst the singles competition gets started for Britain’s tennis players. The first ever match at the World University Games for Britain’s water polo team takes place against Serbia – and Temi Jagede takes centre stage for Team GBR in taekwondo.

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