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Australia has finished the World University Games in Italy with six gold medals, which placed it 12th place on the medal table.
Queensland discus thrower Matthew Denny won Australia's sixth gold medal on the final night to cap off a successful campaign by the UniRoos at the World University Games in Naples, Italy.
It was one of five medals won by the athletics team on the last day of competition, taking their overall tally to 10 - four gold, four silver and two bronze medals - their best result from a Universiade.
Gold Coast Commonwealth Games discus silver medallist Denny (Griffith University) threw 65.27m, going one better than his 2015 Universiade silver to blitz the field, over one and a half metres clear of silver medallist Alin-Alexandru Firfirica of Romania.
Australia's women's 4x100m relay team of Abbie Taddeo (Australian College of Physical Education), Nana Owusu-Afriyie (Deakin University), Riley Day (Griffith University) and Celeste Mucci (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) claimed silver behind Switzerland (43.72).
The team clocked 43.97, the second fastest time by an Australian team this year, only behind the team that reached the final of the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama in May.
Monash University business student Georgia Griffith won silver in the 1500m in 4:09.89 behind Caterina Granz of Germany in 4:09.14.
A bronze to the women's 4x400m team of Genevieve Cowie (University of Sydney), Morgan Mitchell (CollArts), Jessie Stafford (University of Sydney) and Gabriella O'Grady (University of Technology Sydney) in 3:34.01 and men's long jump to Darcy Roper (RMIT University) with a jump of 7.90m rounded out the successful final night.
The UniRoos finished the Games with 17 medals from 15 sports - six gold, five silver and six bronze to finish 12th on the overall medal table.
Gold medals came from Denny, the Emerging Opals in basketball, William Yang (University of Sydney) in the 50m butterfly, Catriona Bisset (University of Melbourne) in the 800m, Katie Hayward (Griffith University) in the 20km walk, and the women's 20km walk team.
The next World University Games is in Chengdu, China in 2021.
