【Campus News】Weekly Review (October.18 2020-October.24 2020)

发布者:谢丰发布时间:2020-11-09浏览次数:351

SCBC Swimmers win golds and silvers at Guangdong Collegiate Swimming Championship

The SCBC swimming team of 16 swimmers has won eight medals and ranked No. 9 as a team in the 2020 Guangdong Collegiate Swimming Championship & the Qualification for the National Collegiate Sports Meet Swimming Tournament held at the swimming stadium of South China Normal University in Guangzhou College Town from October 23 to 25.

  

SCBC swimmers have been strong contenders for medals in Category A competitions. In individual events, Han Kaiyun championed in both the 50-meter and 100-meter backstrokes for women; Xiao Hongliang claimed silver in the 200-meter freestyle for men and fourth place in the 100-meter breaststroke; Yu Chaozhi won bronze in the 100-meter backstroke and sixth place in the 50-meter backstroke for men.

In team events, the SCBC swimming team ranked No. 4 in the 4x50-meter medley mixed relay for men by Yu Chaozhi, Xiao Hongliang, Liu Jiajie, and Zhang Qiliang, and No. 5 in the 4x50-meter medley mixed relay for women by Han Kaiyun, Cai Shuke, Zhu Jiaxin, and He Kaixuan.

These achievements have been results of the solidarity and perseverance of the SCBC swimmers who had fought to compete with 797 male and female athletes from 50 colleges and universities in the province.


Wu Haotian wins a third prize in National Collegiate Russian Contest

Wu Haotian, a freshman of Russian Language from the School of European Languages and Cultures, claimed a third prize (for freshman and sophomore) in the 13th National Collegiate Russian Contest. The award includes an opportunity to study in the Federation of Russia and a monthly allowance of $ 1000, all funded by the China Scholarship Council. 

The primary of the contest took place on October 10. Wu Haotian, supervised by Ms. Yu Fengying, was on the top 15 and automatically qualified for the final after the first round, thanks to his good language skills and great erudition. The notable thing is that Wu got the fourth place by taking 26.83 out of 30 points in the subjective questions in the first round, a showcase of his outstanding Russian proficiency.

On the afternoon of October 24, Wu impressed the judges and the audience in the final in both prepared and impromptu speeches. The judges, who are senior Russian language instructors from colleges and universities across the country, rated his performance in terms of manner and posture, pronunciation and intonation, mastery of words and phrases. Wu earned a third prize, quite a good result for a freshman.

The National Collegiate Russian Contest, also known as the Olympics for Russian language learners in China that attracts the best Russian language students in colleges and universities across the country, is the only foreign language competition that is sponsored by the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Ministry of Education. In the 13th National Collegiate Russian Contest, 378 contestants from 156 colleges and universities came to compete to win awards in three categories: postgraduate, junior and senior, freshman and sophomore. In the two days of competitions and exchanges, these fine contestants had shown their confidence and excellence as representatives of college students in the new era, as well as their knowledge and insight of the Russian culture and history.


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