Slovak athlete Viktória Forster won the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the 31st FISU World University Games in the Chinese city of Chengdu.
In the final, she triumphed in a national record of 12.72 ahead of the Chinese Jen-ni Wu. Bronze goes to Jyothi Yarraji from India.
It is the second medal for the 21-year-old athlete at the ongoing event, on Wednesday she won silver in the 100m freestyle.
This is Slovakia’s eleventh athletics Universiade medal (2–7–2 record). Forster improved her previous Slovak maximum from June’s Zlata Tretra in Ostrava by one tenth.
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“It’s unbelievable what I’m going through now. I am extremely happy about the gold and I thank everyone. It really means a lot to me. At this Universiade, it was a priority race for me and I went into it with the idea that I would leave absolutely everything there and either it will work out or it won’t. I’m happy,” said Forster after winning the gold.
Ján Volko ran a time of 20.66 s in the 200 m final, which was enough for him to place fourth. South African Tsebo Matsoso triumphed with a performance of 20.36. At the Universiade, Volko made it to the finals on this track for the third time – in 2017 in Taipei he won bronze (20.99) and in 2019 in Naples he finished fifth (20.66).
2023-08-04 12:58:00
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