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Team UQ places fourth at Uni Games

3 October 2017
UQ’s women’s judo team finished with six medals
UQ’s women’s judo team finished with six medals

The University of Queensland has finished fourth overall, and Queensland’s top-ranked university, at the 2017 Australian Uni Games (AUG) on the Gold Coast.

Almost 400 UQ students combined to win more than 70 medals, with Team UQ claiming gold medal pennants in six sports (hockey, judo, sailing, tennis, touch, and ultimate).

UQ’s sailing team scored back-to-back AUG gold medals, winning all 29 of its races across the three-day regatta.

Team UQ’s mixed touch side defended its 2016 AUG gold medal, defeating Macquarie University 7-5 to finish the competition undefeated.

UQ’s men’s hockey and women’s ultimate teams also went through their respective competitions unbeaten to claim gold.

UQ’s women’s judo team finished the top university following a haul of six medals, while UQ’s men’s tennis squad defeated Macquarie University 3-2 in the gold medal final.

Team UQ ranked second across eight sports, including athletics, beach volleyball, cycling, fencing, and rowing.

In other results, Team UQ scored bronze medals for the first time in cheer and dance, men’s futsal and women’s table tennis.

A revised event format will replace Australian University Games next year.

‘The Nationals’ will launch in July 2018 with a seven-day National Division 2 competition, followed by a week-long National Division 1 event in September.

Both ‘Nationals’ events will be held on the Gold Coast from 2018-19.
 

Team UQ – Overall rankings and medal winners:

Athletics – Men (2ndImage removed.

Men's 4x100m Relay (1st)

Men's Long Jump - Liam Adcock (1st)

Men's Long Jump - Shemaiah James (2nd)

Men's 100m - Jonty Flottmann (2nd)

Men's 200m - Jonty Flottmann (2nd)

Men's Triple Jump - Trezor Kabamba (2nd)

Men's 1500m - Callum Davies (3rd)

Men's 3000m Steeplechase - Jeremy Hunt (3rd)

Men's Long Jump - Darcy Roper (3rd)

Men's Triple Jump - Shemaiah James (3rd)

 

Athletics – Women (6th)

Women's Heptathlon - Tiana Morrison (1st)

Women's 10,000m - Samantha Phillips (1st)

Women's Pole Vault - Emily Marschall (2nd)

 

Badminton – Men (4th)

Badminton – Women (5th)

Baseball – Men (7th)

Beach Volleyball – Women’s Pairs (2nd)

University of Canberra d UQ 2-0
 

Beach Volleyball – Men (5th)

Beach Volleyball – Mixed (6th)

Cheer & Dance – Mixed (10th)

Division 2 Coed - Level 2 Cheer (3rd)

 

Cycling – Men (2nd)

Men's Criterium - Ryan Thomas (1st)

Men's Time Trial - Oliver Smith (1st)

Men's Pairs Time Trial - Oliver Smith & Ryan Thomas (1st)

Men's Road Race - Ryan Thomas (2nd)

 

Cycling – Women (3rd

Women's Time Trial - Ruby Roseman-Gannon (1st)

Women's Pairs Time Trial - Erin Smith & Megan Williams (3rd)

 

Fencing – Men (2nd)

Men's Individual Épée - Lachlan Crook (1st)

Men's Novice Foil - Oliver Bellwood (2nd)

Men's Team Foil (2nd)

Men's Team Sabre (2nd)

Men's Team Épée (2nd)

Men's Individual Épée - Siddhesh Patil Kulkarni (3rd)

 

Fencing – Women (7th)

Women's Novice Foil - Annie Huang (2nd)

 

Futsal – Men (3rd)

UQ d University of the Sunshine Coast 7-6 (3rd)

 

Golf – Men (4th)

Handball – Mixed (8th)

Hockey – Men (1st

Decorative

UQ d The University of Melbourne 2-0

 

Hockey – Women (9th)

Judo – Women (1st)

Women's Under 57kg - Megumi Hamashima (1st)

Women's Under 63kg - Ellen Wright (1st)

Women's Champion of Champion - Ellen Wright (1st)

Women's Under 52kg - Carol Ng (2nd)

Women's Team (2nd)

Women's Under 70 kg - Kirsty Bevis (3rd)

 

 

Judo – Men (2nd)

Men's Under 100kg - Stuart Parke (1st)

Men's Team (2nd)

Men's Under 60kg - Shota Tani (3rd)

Men's Under 73kg - Mark Sederkenny (3rd)

Men's Under 81kg - Elliot Cutmore (3rd)

 

Rowing – Men (2nd)

Men’s Single Scull - Mick Tanda (1st)

Men's Lightweight Single Scull - Blaine Heseltine (1st)

Men's Double Scull - Morgan Hodgson & Blaine Heseltine (2nd)

Men's Lightweight Four (3rd)

Men's Eight (3rd)

 

Rowing – Women (2nd)

Women's Pair - Ellen Pozzi & Kate Rowan (1st)

Women's Eight (1st)

Women's Lightweight Quad Scull (2nd)

Women’s Single Scull - Jennifer Cleary (2nd)

Women's Lightweight Single Scull - Madeleine Williams (3rd)

Women's Coxed Four (3rd)

 

Sailing – Open (1st)

UQ d University of New South Wales 3-0 (1st)

 

Softball – Women (6th)

 

Swimming – Men (3rd)

Men's 50m Freestyle - Cameron Jones (1st)

Men's 50m Butterfly - Cameron Jones (1st)

Men's 4x50m Freestyle Relay (2nd)

Men's 100m Butterfly - Cameron Jones (2nd)

Men's 800m Freestyle - Connor Scott (3rd)

Men's 200m Backstroke - Jamie Coates (3rd)

 

Swimming – Women (13th)

 

Table Tennis – Women (3rd)

Women's Team (3rd)

Women's Singles - Ching Chong (3rd)

 

Table Tennis – Men (4th)

Men's Singles - Naoya Yamamoto (1st)

 

Taekwondo – Men (4th)

Men's Over 87kg (Black Belt) - Tomos Massey (1st)

Men's Individual Poomsae (Black Belt) - Eric Li (1st)

Men's Under 80kg (Yellow Belt) - Chen Yan (1st)

Men's Under 74kg (Blue Belt) - Bodee Bignell (1st)

 

Taekwondo – Women (6th)

Women's Under 53kg (Black Belt) - Tiffany Ko (2nd)

Women's Under 57kg (Red Belt) - Rebecca Yu (2nd)

 

Taekwondo – Mixed Pairs Poomsae

Mixed Pairs Poomsae - Eric Li & Tiffany Ko (1st)

 

Tennis – Men (1st)Image removed.

UQ d Macquarie University 3-2 (1st)

 

Tennis – Women (5th)

 

Touch – Mixed (1st)

UQ d Macquarie University 7-5

 

Touch – Women (6th)

 

Touch – Men (11th)

 

Ultimate – Women (1st)

UQ d University of Sydney 12-10 (1st)

 

Ultimate – Men (2nd)

University of New South Wales d UQ 12-7 (2nd)

 

Volleyball – Men (4th)

 

Water Polo – Men (9th)

 

Media: Jamie Mitchell, UQ Sport, JamieM@uqsport.com.au, 0423 785 752.

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