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Diversity on the Long Track Medal Podium

Winter Games 22 February 2009

  Women’s 100mAnother All-Asian podium in this speed skating competition with a Chinese domination as the gold and the silver went to Chinese skaters Yu Jing and Zhang Shuang respectively, while Korean Lee Sang Hwa settled for the bronze. 1. YU JING – CHN – 10.292. ZHANG SHUANG – CHN -10.573. LEE SANG HWA – […]

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Figure Skating: Zhang & Zhang Superior

Winter Games 22 February 2009

  PairsAfter the Short Program and the Free Program, Zhang & Zhang add another gold medal to their Winter Universiade Collection (2005, 2007). 1. Dan ZHANG & Hao ZHANG – CHN – 195.322. Ksenia OZEROVA & Alexander ENBERT – RUS – 146.103. Huibo DONG & Yiming WU – CHN – 143.63   Ice DanceAlexandra ZARETSKI […]

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Snowboard and Biathlon in Maoershan

Winter Games 21 February 2009

Snowboard The first finals took place today in Maoershan. Snow showers have taken the place of the yesterday’s sunshine which illuminated this outstanding venue. The snow did not look to border at all the very promising young French snowboarder girl Claire Chapotot, 18 years old, who has beaten the Czech Klara Koukalova after an exciting […]

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K-90 and Sprint in Yabuli

Winter Games 21 February 2009

Kim Hyun-Ki flying forthe Gold in K90 event As you know, ice sports are very popular in China but snow sports are really new.This is the paradox of this Universiade. Some snow sports have never been organized in this country or in any case, not at this level. Consequently it was crucial for the technical […]

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A Swiss Day in Yabuli

Winter Games 20 February 2009

For the first time ever in China an international downhill competition took place today and it went to Swiss skiers. Indeed, the Yabuli ski resort was the place to be for this “first” and the organisers made this competition a huge success. They had to work for months with technicians from the FIS to gain […]

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First Competitions in Maoershan

Winter Games 20 February 2009

  The weather seemed it wanted to celebrate the start of the competition in this very beautiful venue of Maoershang: a beautiful sun and a thermometer that has climbed to -12°C have presided the qualifying rounds of the men and women snowboard cross events. Instead of the classical 4 men/women races that will take place […]

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Round-up Ice Hockey Tournament - Day 3

Winter Games 20 February 2009

 GBR vs. KAZ     Today, February 20th, at the 24th Winter Universiade in Harbin, China, the women had a practice day, while the men’s teams played their third day of competitions.   Men KAZ – GBR 8-0 (4-0, 1-0, 3-0)Great Britain participated for the first time in the ice hockey tournament at the 2007 […]

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Round-Up Curling - Day 2

Winter Games 20 February 2009

Team China Women Round 1 19 Feb CAN-RUS 13:9CHN-GBR 11:3 SWE-JPN 13:6USA-KOR 1:12 CZE-POL 10:5 Round 2 19 Feb CZE-CHN 2:9 JPN-POL 5:8 CAN-USA 13:3 SWE-RUS 4:8 GBR-KOR 9:3 Round 3 20 Feb KOR-POL 9:5 RUS-USA 8:5 GBR-CZE 5:6 JPN-CAN 3:12 SWE-CHN 3:9 Men Round 1 19 Feb USA-GBR 5:6 SWE-CAN 8:5 KOR-SUI 4:3 CHN-JPN […]