VIS athletes bring home 7 of 10 Uni Games medals!

VIS athletes have wowed with performances at the World University Games in Napoli Italy, with Victorian Institute of Sport athletes bringing home 7 of Australia’s 10 Track and Field medals!

In the women’s 800m final, Catriona Bisset brought home gold in a time of 2:01.20, while team mate Morgan Mitchell finished in 8^th with a run of 2:04.14.

Mitchell also competed in the women’s 4 x 400m relay, finishing in third place in the final.

Jemima Montag was busy with her performances in the women’s 20km team walk and individual events. A solid effort in the team event saw the ladies bring home gold with an overall time of 4:51:36. While in the individual event, Montag grabbed silver with a time of 1:33:57.

In the women’s 4 x 100m, Celeste Mucci helped the team to a second place finish with a time of 43.97 seconds. Mucci also had strong performances in the 100m sprint and 100m hurdles, finishing in 16^th and 20^th respectively. 

Over in the women’s 1500m final, Georgia Griffith dominated to finish in second place overall with a time of 4:09.89, while fellow VIS athlete Georgia Hansen finished 10^th in 4:21.89. 

In the men’s long jump, Darcy Roper and Chris Mitrevski once again battled it out with Roper taking the bronze with a leap of 7.90m and Mitrevski taking 5^th place, just behind his team mate with a distance of 7.84m.

In Lucerne, Switzerland, VIS long jumper Henry Smith recently competed at the Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern annual track and field event. Smith finished 5^th in the men’s long jump with a distance of 7.74m.

At the 30^th International Athletics Meeting event in Lignano Italy, Brooke Stratton finished in 2^nd place in the women’s long jump with a distance of 6.51m. Jordy Williams also competed in the men’s 1500m, finishing 9^th in a time of 3:44.89. 

Back home, in the Summer Down Under Queensland winter series, Damien Birkinhead won gold in the shot put with a 19.52m throw. While distance runner Jaryd Clifford competed in the Athletics Victoria Lakeside 10km Road Race over the weekend, finishing in 8^th place with a time of 29:43.94.