Taiwanese high jumper Fu Chao-hsuan on Thursday saw his hopes for a gold medal dashed at the World University Games in Germany after an Israeli athlete overtook him in the final jump, leaving him with a silver.
In the men’s high jump final, Fu started out at 2.08m and cleared subsequent heights with the bar at 2.13m, 2.17m, 2.23m and 2.25m.
He attempted 2.27m on his sixth jump, but was unsuccessful in all three tries.
Photo: CNA
Israel’s Jonathan Kapitolnik also failed his first two attempts at 2.27m, but cleared the height on his final try, narrowly edging out the Taiwanese, who once again missed out on a gold medal.
The second-place finish marked Fu’s second silver medal after he cleared 2.20m at the World University Games in Chengdu, China, in 2023.
In Germany, he attempted to break his personal record of 2.27m, a height that he cleared at an event in Taiwan in February.
Photo courtesy of the Chinese Taipei University Sports Federation
Speaking to reporters after the competition, Fu said he was hoping to take a gold medal home and felt he almost had it, only to see it taken away at the last moment.
“Despite the silver, I’m still happy about it,” he said.
The Taiwanese said he would focus on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan next year and expressed hope that he would reach the podium there as well.
Photo: CNA
In the final of the long jump, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-tang finished sixth in the men’s event after a best of 7.72m in two attempts.
In tennis yesterday, Taiwan added another silver after Li Yu-yun and Lin Fang-an were beaten in the women’s doubles final.
Japan’s Oby Ange Kajuru and Kanon Yamaguchi claimed the gold medal with a 6-4, 4-6, 10-4 victory at the ETUF Tennisanlage in Essen.
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