American swimmer Matt Biondi and Soviet gymnast...

American swimmer Matt Biondi and Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko each won their fourth gold medals of the World University Games at Kobe, Japan.

Biondi, who anchored the winning U.S. 400-meter freestyle relay team, will go for a fifth gold Friday in the medley relay.

Biondi and his teammates finished the freestyle relay in 3 minutes 20.12 seconds, beating the University Games record of 3:21.72.

Earlier, Biondi, 19, of Moraga, Calif., had won golds in the 100-and 200-meter freestyle races and in one relay and had won a silver in the 100-meter butterfly.

Yurchenko added golds in the floor exercises and uneven parallel bars to her earlier women’s team and all-around titles.