HANGZHOU, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) — China beat South Korea 2-0 within the girls’s hockey ultimate to pocket the gold medal on the Hangzhou Asian Games on Saturday.
The win additionally handed China the lone Olympic qualification spot on provide right here for Paris 2024.
Chen Yi opened the scoring for China in open play within the seventh minute because the hosts started strongly. Zou Meirong sealed the victory with a second aim within the 54th minute.
“This is really special. We have worked so hard for this, and these girls have improved so much. They’ve done so much in the last year,” mentioned China head coach Alyson Regina Annan.
“We didn’t play well today, we could have played better, but they fought. We got the Olympic ticket, which is what we came for.”
The win additionally represents China’s fourth Asian Games gold medal in girls’s hockey, after having completed third on the earlier version in Jakarta in 2018.
India defeated Japan 2-1 to get the bronze medal.