Taiwan’s athletes delivered a strong performance on the penultimate day of the Summer World University Games in the Rhine-Ruhr region of Germany on Saturday, winning two gold, two silver and one bronze medal in badminton, as well as a silver in gymnastics.
In badminton, Ting Yen-chen won gold in the men’s singles final after defeating France’s Enogat Roy in straight games, 15-8, 15-5.
Wu Hsuan-yi and Yang Chu-yun claimed gold in the mixed doubles, beating fellow Taiwanese players Chen Cheng-kuan and Hsu Yin-hui, who took silver.
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The two golds brought Taiwan’s gold medal total at this year’s Games to five.
Taiwan’s second silver of the day in badminton came in women’s doubles, where Sung Yu-hsuan and Jheng Yu-chieh lost to China’s Li Qian and Wang Yiduo in a three-round 8-15, 15-7, 9-15 final.
Meanwhile, Lin Yu-chieh and Jheng Yu-chieh earned bronze in mixed doubles after falling in the semi-finals on Friday.
In women’s gymnastics, Tonya Helene Paulsson, a dual national of Taiwan and Sweden who also goes by her Taiwanese name Chen Jui-an, added to Taiwan’s medal tally with a silver in the balance beam final.
Paulsson earned a total score of 13.266, with 5 in difficulty and 8.266 in execution, but lost to Japan’s Ashikawa Urara, who took gold with a score of 14.166.
It was the second consecutive day Paulsson reached the podium, after taking bronze in the women’s individual all-around — Taiwan’s first-ever medal in women’s artistic gymnastics at the event.
In the floor exercise final on Saturday night, Paulsson was the first to compete and scored 13 points.
She held the top position after the first four athletes, but ultimately finished fourth after being surpassed by competitors from Belgium and Japan.
With the Games concluding yesterday, Taiwan finished with a total medal tally of five golds, 13 silver and seven bronze.
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