HANGZHOU, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — Chinese veteran boxers Li Qian and Yang Wenlu clinched their maiden Asiad gold medals respectively on the Hangzhou Asian Games right here on Wednesday.
Having misplaced to India’s Lovlina Borgohain within the semifinals of the World Championships in March, Li underlined her offense within the ladies’s 75kg remaining and steadily obtained the bout beneath management en path to a unanimous resolution win over her opponent.
“I have been training hard in the past nine years and participating in all kinds of competitions,” mentioned Li, silver medalist of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. “It has been a long tough journey for me to finally win gold.”
The 33-year-old has set her sights excessive on her third Olympic Games in Paris, aiming to transform her silver in Tokyo to a gold.
“I’m more stable and mature mentally. I also have a higher standard for myself,” added Li, who additionally captured a bronze on the Rio Olympics.
Yang, who completed fifth on the Jakarta Asian Games, established a stable benefit within the first two rounds to defeat Won Un Gyong of DPR Korea on unanimous resolution within the ladies’s 60kg remaining.
“Thank you, Hangzhou, I have well experienced the passion of the city,” mentioned the 32-year-old, including that her secret to victory is to deal with each coaching session with one hundred pc effort and self-discipline.
China’s Chang Yuan, who was topped within the ladies’s 51kg with a victory over DPR Korean boxer Pang Chol Mi in Jakarta 5 years in the past, confronted the identical opponent within the 54kg class right here on Wednesday. She outperformed Pang within the first spherical however was overcome within the following two rounds, settling for the silver on cut up resolution.
“I was probably thinking too much. I was more eager for gold at my second Asiad,” Chang mirrored on her loss. “I should have focused on the bout itself, on how to land punches in each round.”
“We were rivals in the ring, but we could be friends outside. Pang is an excellent opponent, I admire her,” she added.
Among different Chinese boxers who made their appearances on Wednesday, Tuohetaerbieke Tanglatihan and Yang Liu powered into the boys’s 80kg and the ladies’s 66kg finals respectively on cut up resolution, whereas Lyu Ping fell quick within the males’s 57kg semifinal.
Chinzorig Baatarsukh of Mongolia and Sewonrets Okazawa of Japan gained the boys’s 63.5kg and 71kg finals respectively.
The boxing competitors of the Hangzhou Asian Games will conclude on Thursday, with six extra gold medals up for grabs.