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Proskurina and Lavrova claims Universiade bronze in women's 200m kayak double

Natalia Proskurina and Anastasia Lavrova took bronze in the women's 200m kayak double final at the Summer Universiade in Kazan.

Kayaker Podolskaya wins Universiade gold

Kayaker Natalia Podolskaya won the Universiade gold medal in the women’s 200m single.

Murphy: Victory over Russian footballers at Universiade is best moment in my life

Kieran Thomas Murphy, the UK national university football team leader, said, that for the players of his team, a victory over the Russian footballers in the Universiade semifinals was the best moment in their life.

Russian Aleksandra Zhashkova rated best woman hockey player of Universiade

The captain of the Russian women’s national team in field hockey, Aleksandra Zhashkova, is rated the best player of the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan.

Swimmer Yamamoto captures Universiade gold in men's 800m, Kulikov is fifth

The Japanese swimmer Kohei Yamamoto won in the men's 800m freestyle event at the Summer Universiade in Kazan.

Japanese Sugawara takes gold in women's under 51kg event

Hikari Sugawara won the Universiade wrestling title in the women's under 58 weight category.

Sambo wrestler Kostenko pleased with her victory to go down in history of Universiade

The Russian sambo wrestler Yana Kostenko said that she was proud of winning the gold medal at the Universiade, in which programme this type of martial arts was included for the first time in the history of the University Games.

Tennis player Sabino planned to compete with students and ended at match with Vesnina

Universiade bronze medallist in the mixed doubles event Lisa Sabino of Switzerland has stated that she never expected that she would be competing with professional players at the tournament in Kazan.

Belarusian field hockey players missed out on medal due to carelessness

The women's field hockey team from Belarus lost the bronze medal in the match for third place at the Universiade in Kazan due to carelessness and elementary mistakes, said the head coach of the Belarusian team Nikolay Sankavets.

Chinese Taipei's table tennis team wins Universiade gold

The duo i-chen Lee/Chia-hui Lin (Chinese Taipei) won gold medals in the women's doubles at the Universiade table tennis tournament which takes place at the Kazan Tennis Academy.