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UWA student athletes Holly Barratt (swimming) and Lilian Hedges (water polo) have swum away from the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, Korea, with gold medals and helped the Australian Uniroos to their most successful University Games with a record 19 medals.

Holly Barratt, who is currently studying a Bachelor of Science, was Australia’s most successful athlete with gold in her pet event, the 50m backstroke, and bronze in both the 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle. After representing in the previous games in Kazan, Russia, Holly has been selected in the Australia A swim team and has been working to improve on her personal best times. Fellow UWA swimmer Nicholas Brown swam in the heats of the 4x200m freestyle, which assisted the team to reach the finals where they won silver. Nick made the finals of the 200m butterfly event where he finished in 6th place, and also the semi-finals in the 100m butterfly to finish in 11th place.

As the women’s water polo goalkeeper, Lilian starred in the nail biting gold medal final winning in a penalty shootout against Canada 6-3 to claim their first ever University Games title. Lilian showed off her quick skills to save all three of Canada’s penalty attempts, while the Aussies hit the back of the net each time. UWA students Lachlan Pethick (Commerce) and Andrew Ford (Engineering) didn’t have the same winning edge in the men’s team, going down to Serbia in the quarter-finals after leading in the first half to finish the competition in 7th place.

UWA had ten student athletes represent at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, Korea. Below are the results for all UWA students who were part of the 2015 Uniroos team.

Holly Barratt – Bachelor of Science
– Swimming, women’s 50m backstroke – 1st/gold
– Swimming, women’s 50m butterfly – 3rd/bronze
– Swimming, women’s 50m freestyle – 3rd/bronze
– Swimming, women’s 4x100 freestyle relay team – 5th
– Swimming, women’s 100m backstroke – 8th

Nicholas Brown – Bachelor of Commerce
– Swimming, men’s 200m butterfly – 6th
– Swimming, men’s 100m butterfly – 11th
– Swimming, men’s 50m butterfly – 24th

Lilian Hedge – Bachelor of Science
– Water polo, goalkeeper – 1st/gold

Lachlan Pethick (Bachelor of Commerce) and Andrew Ford (Bachelor of Engineering)
– Water polo – 7th overall

Zak Leonhard – Bachelor of Engineering
– Fencing, men’s individual sabre -  51st overall
– Fencing, team sabre – 14th overall

Tori Leonhard – Bachelor of Arts
– Fencing, women’s individual sabre – 56th overall

Elliott Clutterbuck – Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (Graduated)
– Badminton, men’s doubles – 40th overall
– Badminton, mixed doubles – 49th overall
– Badminton, mixed teams – 21st overall

Kai Png – Bachelor of Science
– Judo, men’s 60kg – round of 32

Jack Halley – Bachelor of Science
– Volleyball (libero) – 18th overall

Media references

Nicole West (Marketing and Communications Officer, UWA Sport and Recreation Association) +61 6488 4309