BEIJING, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) — Here are the most recent Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. China achieves finest efficiency at abroad Asian Games
China swept the lads’s and ladies’s golf workforce titles on October 3 on the 2026 Asian Games, securing its first gold medals within the sport.
Yin Ruoning, Liu Yan and Zhang Weiwei gained the ladies’s workforce title with a four-round complete of 538 strokes, eight forward of India. Chinese Taipei took bronze. Liu shot a closing 66 and Yin a 67 to ship China’s first Asian Games golf gold.
Ding Wenyi, Zheng Yunhe and Jin Zihao accomplished China’s workforce double within the males’s occasion with 532 strokes, two forward of South Korea, whereas host Japan took bronze. It was China’s 166th gold at Aichi-Nagoya, marking its finest efficiency at an abroad Asian Games, with the earlier report of 165 coming from the Doha Games in 2006.
After the penultimate motion of the Games, China topped the medal desk with 169 golds, 89 silvers and 83 bronzes.
2. China claims one centesimal Asian Games diving gold
China’s Olympic champion Lian Junjie gained the lads’s 10m platform gold medal on the 2026 Asian Games on September 30, delivering China’s one centesimal Asian Games diving gold medal and finishing the Chinese workforce’s sweep of all 10 diving titles on the Games.
Lian scored 501.25 factors on the Tokyo Aquatics Center to take the title. Japan’s Rikuto Tamai completed second with 497.20 factors, whereas China’s 15-year-old Zhao Renjie took bronze with 427.50.
Earlier within the day, Olympic champion Chen Yiwen scored 358.05 to win the ladies’s 3m springboard title, additionally China’s 99th diving gold in Asiad. Teammate Chen Jia completed second with 347.45 factors, whereas Japan’s Sayaka Mikami took bronze with 332.35.
The victory gave Chen her second gold medal on the Games, after she teamed up with Chen Jia to win the ladies’s synchronized 3m springboard title on September 27.
3. Lin wins males’s singles for third gold as China takes six desk tennis titles
China’s Lin Shidong swept compatriot Wang Chuqin 4-0 to win the lads’s singles title and in addition his third gold right here as desk tennis competitors concluded on the 2026 Asian Games on September 28.
The closing was Lin’s twentieth match of the Games after he additionally competed in males’s workforce, males’s doubles and blended doubles occasions. He had already gained two gold medals in blended and males’s doubles and a silver in males’s workforce.
China completed the desk tennis competitors with six of the seven gold medals out there, lacking out solely the lads’s workforce title.
4. Mu Xinyue turns into first feminine Asian Games esports gold medalist
China’s Mu Xinyue grew to become the primary feminine athlete to win an Asian Games esports gold medal after China defeated Japan within the Identity V Asian Games Version closing on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 30.
Asian Games esports occasions are open to each female and male athletes, however males proceed to make up the overwhelming majority of registered athletes. According to registration knowledge for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, greater than 500 athletes have been registered for esports, with solely 14 of them ladies.
Esports made its Asian Games debut as an indication sport at Jakarta 2018 earlier than turning into an official medal sport at Hangzhou in 2023. The variety of medal occasions has elevated from seven in Hangzhou to 11 at Aichi-Nagoya, with Identity V Asian Games Version making its Asian Games debut.
China entered 4 of the 11 esports occasions at Aichi-Nagoya — Naraka: Bladepoint, Honor of Kings, Game for Peace Asian Games Version and Identity V Asian Games Version. China gained gold in Naraka: Bladepoint and Honor of Kings and silver in Game for Peace Asian Games Version earlier than including the Identity V gold, concluding its esports marketing campaign with three gold medals and one silver.
5. Zheng advances into China Open third spherical as Kalinskaya withdraws
China’s Zheng Qinwen superior to the third spherical of the China Open on October 3 after Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya retired whereas trailing 3-0 within the deciding set.
Playing in entrance of a packed Diamond Court, Zheng earned the primary break within the eighth recreation of the opening set, however Kalinskaya instantly broke again. Neither participant might achieve one other benefit earlier than Kalinskaya took the tiebreak to win the set 7-6 (4).
With daylight fading and situations turning into colder and windier, Olympic champion Zheng discovered her rhythm within the second set, utilizing her highly effective serve to take it 6-4 and pressure a decider.
Zheng broke early within the third set and moved 1-0 forward earlier than the 27-year-old Kalinskaya referred to as for a medical timeout. The Russian continued briefly earlier than retiring with Zheng main 3-0.