by Sportswriter Li Jia
NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — A brand new technology of sporting stars took heart stage on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Friday. China’s 17-year-old dash sensation Chen Yujie and Thailand’s 20-year-old Puripol Boonson claimed the ladies’s and males’s 100m titles, respectively, whereas 19-year-old swimmer Zhang Zhanshuo capped off an unbelievable marketing campaign together with his seventh gold medal.
Chen led all the way in which to win the ladies’s 100m title in a Games report of 11.06 seconds, additionally setting a brand new U-20 Asian report. Singapore’s Shanti Pereira and Bahrain’s Edidiong Odiong took silver and bronze in 11.21 and 11.33, respectively. Boonson timed 9.90 to win the lads’s dash, a brand new Games report. Oman runners took silver and bronze. China’s Zeng Keli and Xie Zhenye completed sixth and seventh, respectively.
China prolonged its exceptional dominance within the girls’s shot put, claiming a thirteenth consecutive title on the Asian Games. Song Jiayuan threw a season-best 19.40 meters to seize the gold, whereas teammate Zhang Linru took silver with a mark of 18.14 meters.
“I’m very excited and emotional because I had surgery last year,” Song stated after her victory. “This time my coach didn’t come here with me, so I am very proud and happy to have performed that well on the field.”
China missed out on an eighth consecutive girls’s pole vault title after Niu Chunge, the Asian report holder, took a silver with 4.50m. Japan’s Misaki Morota jumped a private finest 4.55m to win the gold medal. In the hammer throw, Uzbekistan’s Sukhrob Khodjaev gained the title with 74.38m. Meanwhile, on the observe, Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew introduced dwelling gold within the males’s 10,000m, clocking a time of 28:27.51.
In swimming, China’s Zhang Zhanshuo capped off a exceptional marketing campaign on the Aichi-Nagoya Asiad, finishing a seven-gold haul with a victory within the males’s 400m freestyle on the Tokyo Aquatics Center on Friday.
The 19-year-old sensation gained seven of the eight occasions he entered. His particular person triumphs included the 800m and 1,500m freestyle, in addition to an Asian-record end within the 200m freestyle. He additionally propelled China to 3 relay golds: the lads’s 4x100m medley, the 4x200m freestyle (in an Asian report of seven:00.17), and the 4x100m freestyle (in one other Asian report of three:10.60).
Zhang turned the primary swimmer to win seven gold medals at a single version of the Asian Games. More considerably, his haul equaled the Games report for many gold medals gained by an athlete at a single version, a mark set by DPRK shooter So Gil-san in 1982.
“Of course, I’m very happy to win these seven gold medals, and I will turn them into greater motivation going forward,” he stated.
Also within the pool, butterfly veteran Zhang Yufei gained the ladies’s 50m butterfly, whereas world champion Qin Haiyang efficiently defended his title within the males’s 50m breaststroke. Freestyle specialist Li Bingjie staged an excellent comeback to win the ladies’s 800m freestyle, and the Chinese quartet triumphed within the girls’s 4x100m medley relay in a Games report 3:54.55 to spherical out one other golden evening for the crew.
Elsewhere, Wang Kuan-hung of Chinese Taipei secured the lads’s 200m butterfly title, whereas Japan’s Kodai Nishiono touched first within the males’s 200m backstroke, leaving China’s Xu Jiayu to accept bronze.
With the swimming concluded, China firmly established its sheer dominance within the sport, claiming 30 gold medals in a complete of 41 occasions.
Away from the pool, on the weightlifting venue, China’s Yang Liuyue claimed two new world data within the snatch and whole of the ladies’s 61kg occasion, hoisting 112kg within the snatch for a gold-medal whole of 251kg. In the clear and jerk, silver medalist Pak Jin Hae of the DPR Korea set a brand new world report with a elevate of 139kg, which Yang later matched. Meanwhile, DPRK’s Oh Kwang Ok took dwelling the ladies’s 57kg title.
In gymnastics, China added extra {hardware} with Zou Jingyuan profitable the lads’s parallel bars and Tian Hao taking gold within the males’s horizontal bar. Qiu Qiyuan additionally secured a silver within the girls’s stability beam. Over on the taking pictures vary, Olympic champions Zhang Changhong, Liu Yukun, and Sheng Lihao led China to the lads’s 50m rifle three positions crew title, with Liu additionally claiming the person gold. India took the third taking pictures gold of the day, profitable the 10m air pistol combined crew title.
Moreover, China’s equestrian crew made historical past by profitable the crew dressage gold for the primary time on the Asian Games. In the lads’s mountain bike cross-country race, China’s Yuan Jinwei staged an excellent comeback to win in 1:25:15, ending simply three seconds forward of Japan’s Tatsuumi Soejima. In fencing, China gained the ladies’s epee crew by beating South Korea 45-28, however Hong Kong, China misplaced to Japan within the males’s foil crew last.
It was a story of combined fortunes for China in crew sports activities. In the ladies’s soccer quarterfinals, China and Vietnam battled into additional time earlier than Wang Shuang netted a dramatic 109th-minute winner to seal a 1-0 victory. China will advance to face the DPRK within the semifinals, following the latter’s 5-1 routing of Chinese Taipei of their quarterfinal conflict.
However, on the basketball courtroom, the defending champion Chinese girls’s crew noticed their bid for a 3rd straight title dashed after falling to South Korea 85-80 in Thursday’s semifinals. Despite dominating the rebounds 52-31 due to their top benefit, a scoreless evening from three-point vary (0-for-13) mixed with 18 turnovers left China with out sufficient firepower to shut out the win.
In desk tennis, China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, and Lin Shidong and Kuai Man, gained their respective combined doubles semifinals Friday on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games to arrange an all-Chinese last.
After six days of competitors, China led the medal desk with 98 gold, 37 silver and 24 bronze medals. Japan was second with 28 gold, 43 silver and 44 bronze medals, adopted by South Korea with 13 gold, 17 silver and 34 bronze medals.