BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) — Here are the newest Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. China claims twelfth straight males’s, seventh consecutive ladies’s titles at desk tennis crew worlds
China beat Japan in each finals on the ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals in London on May 10, profitable its twelfth straight males’s and seventh consecutive ladies’s titles within the match.
In the boys’s last, Liang Jingkun rallied from two video games all the way down to beat Japan’s high participant Tomokazu Harimoto, earlier than world No. 1 Wang Chuqin overcame rising Japanese expertise Sora Matsushima in 4 video games. Lin Shidong sealed China’s victory after defeating Shunsuke Togami in 4 video games within the third rubber.
The ladies’s last was extra intense. World No. 1 Sun Yingsha helped China come again twice to defeat Japan in a five-match thriller, within the two sides’ sixth straight last conflict within the crew worlds.
It marked a record-extending twenty fourth time that China has lifted the Corbillon Cup, with its newest title run starting from the 2012 version in Dortmund.
2. China reaches semifinals with win over Saudi Arabia at AFC U17 Asian Cup
China continued its journey on the 2026 AFC U17 Asian Cup because it superior to the semifinals by defeating host Saudi Arabia 3-1 within the quarterfinals on May 15.
Saudi Arabia took the lead within the twenty first minute when Faisal Bayomi scored following a cross from Ammar Maimani on the left facet.
China responded rapidly as Wan Xiang equalized within the twenty seventh minute with a strike into the underside left nook.
China took the lead within the 59th minute when Zhao Songyuan completed from an in depth vary on an help from He Sifan contained in the field.
Saudi Arabia pushed for an equalizer within the closing phases, however China added a 3rd aim in stoppage time by means of He, whose highly effective long-range strike ended Saudi Arabia’s hopes and secured China’s place within the semifinals, the place it’ll face the winner between Australia and Vietnam.
3. China’s Zhao breaks males’s pace world file at World Climbing Series in Wujiang
China’s Zhao Yicheng broke the boys’s pace climbing world file for the second time in lower than a month on May 10, clocking 4.54 seconds within the semifinal earlier than happening to win gold on the World Climbing Series Wujiang cease.
The 16-year-old lowered his earlier world file of 4.58 seconds, which he set ultimately month’s Asian Beach Games in Sanya, by defeating former file holder Samuel Watson in a much-anticipated semifinal showdown.
Watson, who received bronze on the 2024 Olympics and twice broke the world file throughout the 2024 season, posted 4.67 seconds within the race to take bronze. China’s Long Jianguo got here second.
4. Lai Yawen elected president of Chinese Volleyball Association
Lai Yawen was elected president of the Chinese Volleyball Association on the physique’s eighth normal meeting on May 12.
Lai, who captained China’s ladies’s volleyball crew within the Nineteen Nineties, pledged to hold ahead the spirit of China’s crew and work to deal with challenges within the sport’s reform and growth.
“On this new journey, we will remain firm in our convictions and work solidly to contribute to the revitalization of the three major ball sports [football, basketball and volleyball] and the building of a leading sporting nation by bringing new glory to Chinese volleyball,” Lai mentioned.
5. CMG secures unique media rights for FIFA tournaments in Chinese mainland
China Media Group (CMG) and FIFA introduced on May 15 that that they had reached an settlement on media rights cooperation for a brand new cycle of FIFA competitions, together with FIFA World Cup in 2026 and 2030.
According to CMG, the settlement additionally covers FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2027 and 2031.
Under the settlement, CMG has secured unique all-media rights and sublicensing rights for the Chinese mainland throughout a number of platforms, together with free-to-air tv, pay tv, web and cellular broadcasting providers.
Cooperation between CMG and FIFA dates again to 1978.