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Canadian gymnasts Black and Rogers reach podium at Summer Universiade

Canada's Ellie Black, right, and teammate Brittany Rogers watch the scoreboard during the artistic gymnastics women's qualification at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. Canadian gymnast Black picked up two more medals Wednesday at the Summer Universiade while teammate Rogers won gold in the vault final.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Julio Cortez
Original Publication Date August 23, 2017 - 11:11 AM

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Canadian gymnast Ellie Black picked up two more medals Wednesday at the Summer Universiade while teammate Brittany Rogers won gold in the vault final.

Black, from Halifax, won gold in the beam with 14.133 points and took bronze in the apparatus final with a score of 13.966. Earlier in the competition, she won bronze in the all-around and added silver with Rogers and others in the team event.

Rogers, from Calgary, was the only gymnast to score over 14 points on both passes in the vault final. She finished with a combined score of 14.250.

"It's always such an honour representing Canada, and to do it beside Ellie today in the finals was such a great experience," said Rogers. "I'm so proud of the silver medal performance from the team event on Day 1, everything else was just a cherry on top. I'm so excited for the future of Canadian gymnastics and how every competition we just keep climbing and getting stronger. The sky is the limit."

Celina Toth captured a bronze medal in the women's 10-metre platform event for the third medal of her Universiade career after winning two in 2015 at Gwangju.

Canada has nine medals at the event, surpassing its 2015 Gwangju Universiade total of eight, and are 10th in the overall medal standings.

In other action, Simon Kougnima and Connor MacMillan scored in men's soccer to lift the Canadians past Malaysia 2-1. The women's basketball team suffered its first loss of the Universiade, falling 85-65 to Japan. Argentina beat Canada's women's volleyball team 3-1 and Britain downed the Canadians in men's water polo 7-6.

Competition continues through Sunday at the multi-sport event.

News from © The Canadian Press, 2017
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