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Swimmer Melissa Ingram claimed New Zealand's first medal at the World University Games in Bangkok overnight, winning silver in the 200m backstroke.
In an impressive final night for the New Zealand swimmers, the men's 4x100m individual medley relay team broke the national record.
Seventh-ranked Ingram clocked a new personal best time of two minutes 11.98 seconds, finishing just half a second behind American winner Kelly Harrigan.
"Melissa has been in really excellent form this year," head coach Jan Cameron said.
"She swam strongly in the USA last month and has shown the benefit of that hard racing here.
"Now she has dipped under the 2:12 barrier and has continued to improve and begin to look at Anna Simcic's national record."
Ingram's time is a second outside Simcic's record set in 1991.
The relay team of John Zulch, Glenn Snyders, Corney Swanepoel and Cameron Gibson broke the national record by a second, finishing in 3min 39.06sec.
"What a fantastic way to end the swimming," said New Zealand team Chef de Mission Martin Macdonald.
"This is such a competitive event and to have a silver medal and a second national record broken on the final night has really lifted the spirits of those athletes who are yet to compete in other events."
On a tight course at Water Mill Golf and Gardens, the New Zealand men's and women's golf teams played their first round of golf and were placed 10th out of 16 in the teams.
Individually, Rodney Yee and Ben Wallace shot one-over 73s to lie 19th in a field of 85, four shots off the leading pace.
The women's field did not finish before darkness fell and were to complete their opening rounds this morning.
Three of the men's table tennis players - Peter Craven, Simon Wallace and Grant Gordon - all won first round matches before bowing out in the second round.
- NZPA
