SHENZHEN - The Australian women's 4x100m freestyle relay set a new competition record at the 26th Universiade, winning gold at the Natatorium Center on Sunday, the first day of the six-day event.
The team composed of Cate Campbell, Alice Mills, Jessica Morrison and Marieke Guehrer won gold in 3:40.03. The previous record from Bangkok 2007 (3:40.85) belonged to United States.
WOMEN
50 BUTTERFLY
1. Lu Ying CHN 25.98
2. Marieke Guehrer AUS 26.24
3. Alice Mills AUS 26.53
800 FREESTYLE
1. Lauren Boyle NZL 8:26.30
2. Haley Anderson USA 8:27.11
3. Melania Felicitas Costa Schmid ESP 8:33.66
4X100 FREESTYLE
1. Australia (Campbell, Mills, Morrison, Guehrer) AUS 3:40.03
2. United States (Dwelley, Lee, Vreeland, Romano) USA 3:40.19
3. China (Zhu, Lu, Liu, Tang) CHN 3:40.29
MEN
200 BUTTERFLY
1. Laszlo Cseh HUN 1:55.87
2. Robert Bollier USA 1:56.06
3. Hidemasa Sano JPN 1:56.81
200 BREASTSTROKE
1. Glenn Snyders NZL 2:10.85
1. Giedrius Titenis LTU 2:10.85
3. Kazuki Otsuka JPN 2:10.96
200 BACKSTROKE
1. Ryosuke Irie JPN 1:56.01
2. Rexford Tullius USA 1:58.66
3. Gareth Kean NZL 1:58.74
MEDAL TALLY
NOC | G | S | B |
NZL | 2 | - | 1 |
AUS | 1 | 1 | 1 |
JPN | 1 | - | 2 |
CHN | 1 | - | 1 |
HUN | 1 | - | - |
LTU | 1 | - | - |
USA | - | 4 | - |
ESP | - | - | 1 |
Note: two golds and no silvers were awarded for a dead-heat in the men's 200 metres breaststroke.