HANGZHOU, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — The first competitors day of athletics on the Hangzhou Asian Games noticed China obtain a 1-2 end in 4 occasions right here on Friday.
In the opener, Zhang Jun, who posted the world’s second-fastest time this season, pocketed his first-ever main title within the males’s 20km race stroll in a single hour and 23 minutes, adopted by his teammate Wang Zhaozhao with one minute and eight seconds behind. The newly-crowned Asian champion Yutaro Murayama of Japan took the bronze in 1:24:41.
Zhang, who did not make a podium end finally month’s World Championships in Budapest, stated he had discovered his classes from the worlds and improved his methods prior to now month.
In the ladies’s occasion, world file holder Yang Jiayu, who additionally missed out on the rostrum in Budapest, overtook her compatriot Ma Zhenxia within the last meters to defend her title in 1:30:03.
Ma crossed the road with just one second behind, adopted by Japan’s Nanako Fujii in 1:33:49.
In the night session, ladies’s throwing occasions witnessed veterans’ energy. Tokyo Olympic champion Gong Lijiao, a four-time Asiad participant, gained her third gold in a row within the ladies’s shot put with 19.58 meters, a median outcome for her this season.
Gong, 34, who had simply added one other bronze to her worlds medal assortment, shared her emotions over her Asian Games experiences after the match.
“It has become harder and harder for me to compete. I had a lot of difficulties in distributing my energy. But winning for the third consecutive time and helping China win 12 times in a row at the Asiad make me feel very proud,” stated Gong, including that she wouldn’t stop till the Paris Olympics.
The silver additionally went to China as Song Jiayuan, the Universiade champion in Chengdu final month, completed with 18.92m. India’s Kiran Baliyan ranked third with 17.36m.
Another seasoned thrower Wang Zheng acquired her first Games gold medal with a 71.53-meter efficiency in ladies’s hammer throw. The 35-year-old burst into tears on the shoulder of her compatriot Zhao Jie, who bagged silver with 69.44m.
“I know I didn’t show the best of myself today because I wanted it so much. This is my fourth Asiad, and I have already had three silvers in the past 13 years. Today my dream finally comes true,” stated the emotional Wang.
The different gold of the day went to Bahrain as Violah Motosio clinched the ladies’s 10,000m gold with a personal-best 31 minutes 43.73 seconds, with Japan’s Ririka Hironaka and Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui of Kazakhstan putting second and third respectively.