Essen (Germany), July 22 -- Slovenian Klara Lukan clinched the first track and field gold medal of the Rhine-Ruhr World University Games with a Games record time of 31 minutes 25.84 seconds in the women's 10,000m.
Lukan maintained her leading position throughout the 25-lap race and was never really challenged to secure Slovenia's first medal in the 2025 event, but she refused to define her win as an easy one on Monday.
"Maybe it's just the expression on my face that makes it look easy, but it's always hard. It's never easy. Otherwise everyone could do it," said Lukan.
"Everything went according to plan today. At first, I wanted to do more tactical [things], but you know, my style of running is to just push the best. I kept that, that's...