University Winter Games say goodbye to Lake Placid

Lake Placid closes its doors after ten days of sports where the best student athletes in the world have come together for these University Games, an Olympics for young people that is becoming more and more relevant.

Final events on Saturday included the women’s curling final, which topped the podium for China; South Korea won the bronze medal and the United States finished third on the podium. One of the pending women’s finals was the biathlon, which awarded the gold medal to Czech Kristina Otkowska; The rest of the podium was French, with a silver medal for Pauline Machut and a bronze for Anna Blanc.

With regard to today’s Sunday, there are still some tests to be played, but we already have the results of others: Thus, we must tell about ice hockey, a sport that always generates great expectations and Whose followers are in large numbers. The qualifiers have been happening throughout this week and have increased in intensity leading up to the finals yesterday and today. The women’s competition followed on Saturday with a victory for the Canadian team. The silver medal went to Japan, and the bronze went to the Czech Republic. For the men’s grand final, a match is taking place between the two finalists, the Canadian team and the United States, the outcome of which we still do not know.

Cross country skiing was the second test on the last day. The winner in the men’s (30 km) was an American, John Steele Hagenbuch. In second place was Norwegian Magnus Boe, and the bronze medal went to Italian student Luca Compagnoni. The medals in the women’s event (15 km) went to Xenia Shalygina of Kazakhstan, who won gold. The silver for the Japanese Rin Sobue, and the third on the podium with the bronze was Czech Adela Novakova.

Finally, the last snowboard final is also held today, the winners of which we will know later.

It will be the end of a few days filled with emotion, with young university students demonstrating their level in winter sports, and many already future Olympians. We highlight a good performance from Spain, who returned home with five medals, two of which are gold.

The next University Games will take place two years later in 2025 and will be held in the Italian city of Turin.