SHENZHEN, China - After snagging Canada's first medal Monday thanks to a third-place finish in the individual all-around competition, Nathan Gafuik struck again Tuesday with a silver medal at the vault on the final day of artistic gymnastics action at the 26th Summer Universiade.
Gafuik, an Athabasca University student, became the first Canadian gymnast to capture two individual medals at the same world university games.
?It feels pretty good. It's not exactly the medal I wanted, but it'll do,? said Gafuik.
The Calgary native took part in four of the six finals held Tuesday night.
At the vault, one of the two apparatuses he dominated on Monday during the all-around competition - along with the horizontal bar - Gafuik went last and earned 16.112 points to finish just behind Flavius Koczi of Romania (16.237).
?Things could have gone a little better, there were a few minor things today that didn't go as well as I had hoped. There isn't much of an advantage going last, I got to see everything that happened beforehand, but after that, you still have to go out and perform regardless of what happened before you.?
?I keep all my medals in shoeboxes, labelled for each year that I have competed, so these ones are going into the archive,? said Gafuik, the only Canadian in action in Tuesday's finals.
The Canadian women are still in contention at the first-ever Universiade beach volleyball tournament, while the last Canadian men's team was ousted from the competition on Tuesday.
In the men's tourney, the Canada 1 squad of Cameron Wheelan of Barrie, Ont., and Simon Fecteau-Boutin of Levis, Que., suffered its second defeat of the double-elimination second round, losing to the Czech Republic 21-19, 21-15.
On the women's side, both Canadian pairs are still in the thick of things.
Caleigh Whitaker of Sharon, Ont., and Kristina Valjas of Toronto, who make up Canada 1, rallied from a set down to beat USA 1 by 17-21, 21-10, 15-7 in the morning match, improving their overall record to 4-0 in the process. In the afternoon however, the teammates lost for the first time this week, a 22-24, 21-19, 16-14 decision to Italy.
The Pool C first-place finishers resume second-round play on Wednesday.
The Canada 2 squad of Kristina Vlcek of Toronto and Becky Billings of Ottawa also lost its first match of the elimination round on Tuesday, a 23-21, 21-10 defeat to Slovakia 2 in its lone outing of the day.
In swimming, Tera van Beilen barely missed the podium in the women's 200-metre breaststroke. Seventh at the 150m turn, the native of Oakville, Ont., mounted a comeback to finish in a personal best 2:26.78, only 11 hundredths of a second behind bronze medallist Satomi Suzuki of Japan.
Hanna Pierse of Edmonton was eighth in the 400 individual medley, a result matched in the final race of the evening by the men's 4x200 freestyle relay of Dominique Massie-Martel of Ottawa, Nicholas Sinclair of Victoria, Kier Maitland of Edmonton and Colin Miazga of Saskatoon.
Jenna Martin of Bridgewater, N.S., and Amonn Nelson of Calgary both qualified for the women's 400m semifinals, while Ottawa's Michael Robertson will compete in the men's 400m semifinals and Toronto native Mark Dillon is off to the final in high jump.
In the men's 100m, Dontae Richards-Kwok of Mississauga, Ont., is through to the semifinals. West Vancouver's Helen Crofts and Annie LeBlanc of Repentigny, Que., both qualified for the 800m semifinals.
In men's volleyball, Canada (3-0) all but secured a spot in the quarter-finals with a 3-0 (25-20, 25-18, 25-14) win over Norway (1-2).
In women's water polo, Canada (0-2-1) was downed 15-12 by the host team from China. The Canadians, who finished third in Pool A, will face Russia Thursday in the quarter-finals.
In women's volleyball, the Canadians (1-2) earned their first win of the tournament, downing winless France 3-1 (27-25, 13-25, 25-19, 25-18) to close out Group C play. Canada will not advance to the quarter-finals.
In men's soccer, the Canadians picked up their first point of the tournament, drawing Ghana 1-1 in their final Group D match. Carl Haworth of Barrie, Ont., scored on a penalty kick for the Canucks, who finish the round robin with a mark of 0-2-1 and will miss the quarter-finals.
In women's table tennis, Montreal's Sara Yuen won both her matches on Tuesday - first downing Hoiyan Lok of Hong Kong 3-2 (12-10, 7-11, 11-7, 7-11, 11-4) and then rallying to beat USA's Barbara Wei 13-11, 8-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-7. She advances to the next round.
In men's competition, Peng Guo of Montreal was swept 11-8, 11-4, 11-7 by Kentaro Miuchi of Japan to fall to 1-1 in his group, while Pierre-Luc Hinse of Gatineau, Que., defeated Romualdo Manna of Italy 3-1 (11-8, 12-10, 8-11, 11-7). Hinse has one more preliminary match remaining on Wednesday.
In tennis, Carl Ho of Richmond, B.C., who was eliminated from the men's singles main draw on Monday, crushed Kishanthan Thangarajah of Sri Lanka 6-0, 6-0 in his first consolation match.
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