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Chinese Olympic champion takes gymnastics all-around gold at Universiade

2009-07-05 00:52:51 GMT2009-07-05 08:52:51 (Beijing Time)  Xinhua English

China's Jiang Yuyuan celebrates on the awarding podium after the individual all-around match of women's artistic gymnastics in the 25th Universiade in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, July 4, 2009. Jiang claimed the champion with a total of 57.050 points. (Xinhua/Fan Jun)

China's Jiang Yuyuan competes in the vault competition of individual all-around match of women's artistic gymnastics in the 25th Universiade in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, July 4, 2009. (Xinhua/Fan Jun)

BELGRADE, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Olympic champion Jiang Yuyuan led a Chinese 1-2 finish in the gymnastics women's all-around event at the World University Games here on Saturday.

Jiang, a member of China's Beijing Olympics gold medal-winning team, produced a consistent performance in vault, uneven bars, beam and floor exercise to amass 57.050 points for the title.

Her teammate He Ning was 0.450 points behind and took the silver medal.

Kim Un Hyang of DPR Korea rounded out the podium finish with 55.800 points.

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