BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — Here are the newest Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. fifth Asian Para Games open in Japan’s Nagoya
The fifth Asian Para Games opened in Aichi-Nagoya on October 18.
Running from October 18 to 24 underneath the theme “Imagine One Heart,” the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games carry collectively practically 3,000 para athletes from 45 nations and areas throughout Asia, who will compete in about 500 occasions throughout 18 sports activities.
Led by flagbearers para taekwondo athlete Li Yujie and para powerlifter Yan Panpan, the Chinese delegation entered the venue to heat applause.
China has despatched 312 athletes, with a mean age of round 28.8, as a part of a 500-member delegation for its fifth Asian Para Games, marking the nation’s largest-ever athlete contingent at an abroad version of the Games.
The Chinese athletes, all amateurs from various backgrounds together with employees, college students, workplace staff and freelancers, will compete in 335 occasions throughout 17 sports activities.
2. China sends 66 athletes to Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
China on October 20 introduced a 66-athlete squad for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, with the crew set to compete in 49 occasions throughout 21 sports activities on the Games in Senegal from Oct. 31 to Nov. 13.
The 121-member delegation consists of 16 male and 50 feminine athletes, who will compete in sports activities together with athletics, swimming and desk tennis.
Dakar 2026, the fourth version of the Summer Youth Olympic Games, will carry collectively round 2,700 athletes competing in 25 sports activities. The occasion can be held in Dakar, Diamniadio and Saly, marking the primary Olympic occasion to happen on African soil.
3. China edges U.S. for first ladies’s crew world gymnastics title in 20 years
China edged the United States by 0.233 factors to assert its first ladies’s crew title in 20 years on the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on October 21.
China topped the standings with 165.764 factors, forward of the United States with 165.531 and Japan with 164.063.
The victory gave China its second ladies’s world crew title after its breakthrough triumph in 2006 and ended the United States’ run of seven consecutive titles. All three medal-winning groups secured qualification for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
4. China retains males’s crew crown, Japan takes ladies’s title at desk tennis Asian C’ships
China defeated South Korea 3-0 to assert its fourth consecutive males’s crew title on the 2026 ITTF-ATTU Asian Championships on October 22, whereas Japan rallied to beat China 3-2 within the ladies’s crew remaining.
Having received the boys’s title in 2023, 2024 and 2025, China prolonged its dominance regardless of fielding a youthful squad as a part of its preparations for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Several established stars, together with Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, had been absent from the match as China appeared to speed up its generational transition.
5. China’s Yin rallies previous Choi to win Buick LPGA Shanghai for seventh LPGA Tour title
China’s Yin Ruoning got here from behind to beat South Korea’s Choi Hye-jin by one stroke and win the Buick LPGA Shanghai on October 18, claiming her seventh LPGA Tour title.
Yin completed with a four-round whole of 277, 11 underneath par, at Sheshan Golf Club to win the match for the second time, having additionally captured the title in 2024.
Choi, who had led the match by means of the primary three rounds, carded a final-round 71 to complete second at 10 underneath. South Korea’s Amy Yang shot a 68 to take third at 8 underneath.
The victory continued a robust season for Yin, who received the FM Championship in late August to assert her sixth LPGA Tour title and finish a title drought of practically two years.
She additionally earned a silver medal within the ladies’s particular person competitors on the Nagoya Asian Games earlier this month and helped China win gold within the ladies’s crew occasion, securing the nation’s first Asian Games gold medal in golf.
6. Powerlifter Cui Zhe units private finest to win China’s 1st gold at Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games
Powerlifter Cui Zhe led from her opening try to win the ladies’s 41kg title on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games on October 19, delivering China’s first gold medal of the Games.
Cui additionally received China’s first gold medal on the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta, the place she claimed the ladies’s 41kg title with a decisive remaining carry. Eight years later and fewer than two months shy of her fortieth birthday, she opened Monday’s competitors with a assured 110kg carry, instantly placing herself 10kg forward of nearest rival Tursynay Kabyl of Kazakhstan.
Cui prolonged her lead with a 115kg second carry. When Kabyl, the penultimate lifter, chosen 104kg for her third try, Cui’s gold was secured. The champion was not completed, nevertheless. She referred to as for 120kg on her remaining try and accomplished the carry cleanly, surpassing the private better of 119kg she set on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. After the carry was declared good, Cui turned to the gang, waved and smiled broadly.
7. China claims 4 golds at World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals
China received 4 gold, three silver and one bronze medal to prime the standings on the 2026 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals on October 20, with Liu Jiayu overcoming an tools failure to win the boys’s solo title.
Liu established an early lead towards Australia’s Samuel Forbes earlier than his boat’s sliding seat got here unfastened. He recovered to overhaul Forbes and declare gold in 2 minutes, 46.97 seconds.
In the ladies’s solo remaining, Australia’s Isabella Scammell took gold forward of China’s Zhu Wenjie and Austria’s Magdalena Lobnig. Zhu had earlier overwhelmed European champion Esther Briz Zamorano of Spain within the quarterfinals and Portugal’s Bruna Parente within the semifinals.
Germany’s Franz Werner and Sophie Leupold defeated two-time champions Lithuania to win the blended double sculls, with Poland taking bronze.
China’s different three gold medals got here in under-19 occasions. Yuan Zihao and Zhao Xu received the boys’s double sculls, Zhu Weiwei claimed the ladies’s solo title, and Su Juntao and Liu Lili triumphed within the blended double sculls.