BANGKOK - The 26-year-old Universiade record of the men's 3000m steeplechase shattered Monday down as Halil Akkas of Turkey set the new best time of eight minutes and 20.83 seconds.

Waving and cheering up the audiences, Akkas even slowed down his step towards the sprint, know nothing about breaking the record, set by America's John Gregorek on 8:21.26 at Bucharest, Romania, in 1981.

The Turkish proved a real contender for next year's Beijing Olympics as he also won the 5,000m event last night.

Kenya's Barnabas Kirui finished second in 8:22.67, while Ion Luchianov of Moldova taking third back home.

Meanwhile, Portuguese female runner Jessica Augusto grabbed the gold medal in 5,000m race in another new games record of 15:28.78, contributing the first track-and-field title to her motherland.

Thais stole the final show of the inaugural Universiade shooting from the powerhouses Russia and China by grabbing two gold medals on Monday.

One missing point almost cost Thailand the gold medal before a double-check of the paper targets awarded the point back in the women's 50m rifle prone.

Tying with China with identical 1,742 points, Thailand was deduced to the second place because of lower scores from the last serie of ten shots.

"We double-checked the targets of all three teams in the leading positions and found one of them previously counted a nine was actually a ten," said Tan Weichang, the classification jury. " And the piece of paper target had been checked through a meterage machine for the hole."

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