University Games
From Staff and Wire Reports
Elsewhere in a 12-day event that has 11 sports and 5,500 competitors from 111 countries, China’s Wang Chongseng won the men’s individual all-round gymnastics gold medal ahead of Japan’s Daisuke Nishikawa and Masayuki Matsunaga.
The U.S. women’s basketball team, with 17 points apiece from Katy Steding of Stanford and Lisa Leslie of USC, defeated Hungary, 104-89, for its third consecutive victory, and the U.S. men’s team, with 26 points from Adonis Jordan of Kansas, beat Finland, 141-66.
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