GWANGJU Adidas Bo Horvat Jersey , South Korea, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Li Ling cleared 4.45 meters to win the women's pole vault title while Russia took four gold medals in the athletics competitions at the 2015 Gwangju University Games on Thursday.


Russia was the big winner of track and field on the day, snatching four gold medals. In women's long jump, Luliia Pidluzhnaia managed 6.79 meters for the title. Dmitrii Sorikin jumped to his personal best of 17.29 meters for the men's triple jump gold, Igor Maximov clocked 29:15.30 to win the men's 10,000 meters title and Yulia Maltseva won the women's discus title with a throw of 59.37 meters.


Russia also took one gold each from diving, shooting and swimming to jump to the third place on the medal table with a total of 19 gold medals.


Japan only managed one gold medal on Thursday through Ayatsugu Hirai and dropped to the fourth place with 17 gold medals.


Besides the women's pole vault title, China also collected four gold medals from diving to remain on the second place of the table with 22 gold medals.


China tops the diving medal standings of Gwangju Universiade with ten gold medals, followed by Russia in the second place with two and Canada ranks third with one title.


The diving competitions at the Gwangju Universiade concluded after the final of men's 10m platform which was won by Wang Yao of China at 498.70 points. Igor Mialin of Russian finished second at 453.05 while the bronze medal was won by Wang's compatriot Wang Anqi.


Earlier in the women's synchronized 3m springboard final, Chinese pair Qiu LinSun Mengchen displayed a stunning performance to beat Kim NamiMoon Nayun of South Korea for the gold medal with 313.50.


China also won the men's and women's team titles due to better results in individual and synchronized events.


Host South Korea slowed down its pace of winning gold medals, winning only two gold medals on Thursday. But it still had a tight grip on the first place of medal table with 30 gold, 23 silver and 18 bronze medals.


South Korea's two gold medals on Thursday are from the women's sabre team event and women's 57kg taekwondo event.


The United States added three gold medals to its tally, all from swimming. It ranks fifth with 15 gold, 9 silver and 10 bronze medals.


Thursday's only record came from track and field as South Africa's Akani Simbine sprinted to 9.97 seconds in men's 100 meters to set a new game record.


BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have rolled out measures to fight air pollution as the most heavily polluted season, winter, is coming.


The port city of Tianjin will restrict production in heavily polluting industries, including steel, casting, construction materials and coking, according to a local government action plan to curb air pollution during the four-month central heating season that usually starts on November 15.


Steel output will be slashed by half, it said.


Data showed that pollutants from the burning of coal increase by 30 percent during winter, said Yang Yong, an official with Tianjin Environmental Protection Bureau.


Without output limits, one of the most effective ways to reducing pollution, the amount of pollutants would exceed the environmental capacity, said Yang.


Most of the industries affected are suffering from overcapacity and the limits would not lead to a marked shortage of supply, he said.


Hebei, home to several of cities in China's top 10 most polluted, has issued similar measures for heavily polluting industries.


The province is also ordering its rural regions near Beijing to use electricity and natural gas to replace burning coal, a major cause of smog in winter.


In Beijing, developers will even be banned from land auctions if three or more of their projects are found to be failing to control dust.


The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region sits at the heart of the North China Plain where air pollution, particularly winter smog, often occurs as a result of the high concentration of industrial and vehicle emissions, limited air circulation and the burning of coal.


Local governments are taking harsher measures to fight air pollution with more residents increasingly worried about the health impacts, particularly of PM2.5, airborne particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter.


China has set a target to reduce the level of PM 2.5 pollution by at least 15 percent in the cities around the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region between October 2017 and March 2018.



Manchester City's Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero (No.16) vies with Liverpool's Croatian defender Dejan Lovren during their English Premier League match in Liverpool on Sunday. Photo: CFP

Philippe Coutinho scored a sensational winning goal as Liverpool beat Manchester City 2-1 on Sunday to close on the Premier League top four and dent their opponents' title -defense.


The Brazilian produced a tremendous finish from 25 yards (22.86 meters) at Anfield to settle a game of immense quality after City striker Edin Dzeko had canceled out an equally spectacular opener from Jordan Henderson.


It was a victory that moved Liver-pool up to fifth place in the -table and cast serious doubt over whether reigning champions City can now offer -Chelsea a realistic challenge for top spot.


Manuel Pellegrini's side are now five points behind the -leaders having played a game more than the Londoners, who did not feature in league -action this weekend due to their League Cup final with Tottenham Hotspur.


This was an entertaining contest from the first whistle, with the hosts going close when Adam Lallana ran onto Coutinho's through ball but could only shoot straight at Joe Hart.


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