The Sixth CUPL Postgraduate Games kicked off at the basketball court of the Haidian Campus on the morning of 27 October, after selection, the College sent 35 athletes to participate in the games of 4 individual events and 4 group events.
The opening ceremony of the Games was presided over by Jia Haixiang, Director of the university's Physical Education Department. Vice President Lu Chunlong of CUPL delivered the opening speech, calling on all teachers and students to actively participate in various sports, cultivate tenacious and hard-working spirit, and form a social ethos of unity, cooperation and fair competition, and wished the games a complete success. He then declared the Games open.
Although it turned cold and the autumn wind rustled at the end of October, the enthusiasm of the delegation was not dampened. The students fought bravely for the lead, showing a unique style of youth.
Individual events were held in the morning, including single jump of rope skipping, shot, shuttlecock kicking and standing long jump. 13 female students including Gao Jingna, Dong Ronan and Li Yanan and 13 male students Wang Yisheng, Zhang Yaodong and Huang Tianyi tried their best in the games.
The collective one-legged jumping relay, the collective rope skipping, crossing the river by feeling the stones and the collective tug-of-war were held in the afternoon. Huo Xinyou, Tang Xiangchen, Lin Hongwei and Chen Qishan took part in the relay, and got the 1st place in the men's group. Zhou Tongxin, Chen Shujun, Tang Xiangchen, Fan Zhiyang, Shen Zhengxuan and other 16 students participated in the collective tug-of-war. In the cheers of the students, they fought tenaciously all the way and gained the best result in the history of College delegation, the 4th place.
