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Chinese Zhou Yuanguo scored 18 points to win the men's race board light yachting title at the Asian Games on Sunday. Back to the Top |
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Olympic champion Lee Lai-Shan from Hong Kong, China, built an unbeatable seven points lead over second-placed Huang Ying of China, securing the IMCO women's yachting at the Asian Games on Sunday. Back to the Top |
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For Chinese table tennis players, women's doubles is the most difficult to win, said Chinese head coach Cai Zhenhua on Sunday. According to the degress of difficulty rated by Cai, the women's team was the least difficult event for China, followed by men's team, men's doubles, mixed doubles, men's and women's singles and women's doubles. Back to the Top |
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World No. 3 Kong Linghui of China will very likely become the king of Asian table tennis if he repeats his Asian Games team final win over South Korean Kim Taek Soo in the singles semifinals. Kong was drawn into the second half with the world 11th-ranked South Korean, who lost to the Chinese in straight sets in the team final Saturday, while dual Olympic gold medalist Liu Guoliang of China topped the first half of the draw. If competition goes as seeding, 1995 world champion and World Cup winner Kong will take on current World Cup runner-up Kim in the semifinals. The Chinese has better chance to make the final. Liu, ranked second in the world, will very likely meet Japanese Iseki Seiko in the semifinals. Seiko, who won the 1988 Olympic doubles gold for China in his Chinese name of Wei Qingguang and changed his allegiance in the early 90s, had beaten Liu in the Asian championships in October. Back to the Top |
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Yu Guohui claimed the first track and field gold medal for China as he led all the way to win the men's 20 kilometers walking on Sunday. Yu, 22, who has a personal best time of 1:22.50, clocked 1:20:25, beating the Asian Games record of 1:21:15 set by his compatriot Chen Shaoguo in the Hiroshima Games four years ago. Valeriy Borissov of Kazakhstan, bronze medalist at the Asian Championships last July in Japan, finished second with 1:23:52. Li Zewen, who won the event in the Asian Championships, came in third with 1:24:41, a far cry from his personal best of 1:18:32 set in the World Cup walking competiton in 1997. Back to the Top |
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Japanese swimming team leader Tsuyoshi Aoli claimed they won the Asian Games swimming by beating China for the first time since the 1990 Games. But Chinese head coach Zhang Xiong said China was the eventual winner in the water despite taking 13 golds against Japan's 15. "Chinese swimmers broke seven Games marks while Japanese only four. I think we are the winners in swimming," said Zhang. The mere medal tally is not sufficient to decide who is the No. 1 Asian power in the sport," the Chinese coach said. "The Chinese team was depleted by the absence of star swimmers while Japan sent most of its best swimmers here." Aoli said the Japanese victory in swimming boosted its chance and morale to win a gold medal in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Back to the Top |
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Yoko Ota of Japan took the gold medal of the women's high jump at the Asian Games on Sunday. Ota cleared the height of 1.88 meters for the title. Jin Ling of China also conquered the height but had to settle for the second place. Anna Chertrova of Kyrgyzstan took the bronze medal at 1.84. Back to the Top |
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Fehaid Al-Deehani and Fahad Al-Deehani of Kuwait finished 1-2 at the men's trap shooting at the Asian Games on Sunday. Fehaid Al-Deehani scored 140 hits and his brother Fahad got 137. Pae Won-Guk of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea finished third in 135. Back to the Top |
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea won the men's center fire pistol team title with a total score of 1,749 points at the Asian Games on Sunday. South Korea, which also garnered 1,749 points, placed second while India was third in 1,747. Back to the Top |
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South Korea routed Japan 3-1 to take the women's soft tennis title at the 13th Asian Games on Sunday. The bronze medal was taken by Chinese Taipei who outwitted China 3-2. Yoon Sun-Kyung and Lee Mi-Hwa won the protracted opener 5-3 against their Japanese peers Naoko Higashi and Yuko Miyaji before its singles player Kang Ji-Sook outpowered Shino Mizukami of Japan 4-1 for a comfortable advantage. However, Japanese second double parters Satoko Ishikawa and Tomoka Oku clawed one point back by defeating South Korean Yang Kum-Yo and Lee Mi-Kyung 5-2. In the fourth match, the Korean woman Yoon Sun-Kyung sealed the victory against Naoko Higashi 4-2, awarding her country the top honor. In the third-place playoff, Chinese Taipei defeated China 3-2 by winning two doubles and one singles. Back to the Top |