For the last week of September, 35 UNSW athletes headed up to the Gold Coast to compete in the 2017 Australian University Games (AUGs). We lead an incredibly successfully campaign coming away with 17 medals. The team successfully won a medal in all 6 of the relay races as well as 8 Green and Gold medals.  

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Here is an impressive list of all our athletes who made finals: 

 

 

Women's 100m: 

Jessica Thornton 1st  

Audrey Kyriacou 3rd 

Katrina Hunt 7th  

Tomasin Clark 8th  

 

Men's 100m:

Ben Mackay 5th  

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Women's 200m:

Jessica Thornton 1st  

Tomasin Clark 3rd  

 

Men's 200m: 

Ben Mackay 5th  

 

Women's 400m:

Bethany Halmy 4th  

 

Men's 400m:

 Bryce Collins 3rd  

Zachary Havadjia 6th  

 

Women's 800m:

Bethany Halmy 5th  

 

Men's 800m: 

Ben Quinn 6th  

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Women's 1500m:

Georgia Winkcup 7th  

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Women's 5000m:

Hannah Gibson 12th  

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Women's 10,000m:

Hannah Gibson 5th  

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Women's 100m Hurdles: 

Hannah Jones 1st (Record) 

Katrin Hunt 2nd  

 

Men's 110m Hurdles:

 Ivor Metcalf 2nd  

Jack McArdle 4th  

 

Men's 400m Hurdles: 

Bryce Collins 1st  

 

Women's Long Jump: 

Audrey Kyriacou 1st (Record) 

 

Men's High Jump: 

 Ivor Metcalf 4th

 Gianluca Cibei 5th 

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Men's Pole Vault: 

Mudith Jayasekara 5th  

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Women's Discus:

Erin Prince 2nd  

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Along with these great individual results the relay team achieved the following:  

Women 

 

Women's 4x100m: 

GOLD!  

(Jessica Thornton, Katrina Hunt, Tomasin Clark, Audrey Kyriacou) 

 

Men's 4x100m:

BRONZE! 

(Desmond Cai, Leonard King, Amanat Chaman, Ben Mackay) 

 

Women's 4x400m:

BRONZE! 

(Bethany Halmy, Carolena Kostas, Georgia Winkcup, Jessica Thornton) 

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Men's 4x400m:

GOLD! 

(Zachary Havadjia,Ben Quinn,  Ben Mackay, Bryce Collins)  

Women's Sprint Medley:

SILVER! 

(Tomasin Clark, Audrey Kyriacou, Jessica Thornton, Bethany Halmy) 

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Men's 1600m Sprint Medley 

SILVER! 

(Zachary Havadjia,  Ben Mackay, Bryce Collins, Ben Quinn) 

 

Green and Gold medals are awarded at the Australian University Games for outstanding results, this year the team collected 8 over 5 events, 

Jess Thornton (100m and 200m),

Audrey Kyriacou (Long Jump),

4x100m women, 

Bryce Collins (400m Hurdles).  

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Each performance earned the university points over the action packed four days of competition. The large amount of athletes to win a medal and make finals certainly helped the points campaign, but equally the efforts of all the athletes in the team across their events.  

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The overall point score saw the women take of 2nd, the men 3rd and UNSW 2nd overall!  

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This has been one of the most successful University Games campaigns and shows the strength of the UNSW club going into the 2017/2018 season. 

 

Congratulations to all involved!  

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