BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) — Here are the newest Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. China dominates Asian Table Tennis Team Championships
China swept each the lads’s and girls’s titles with equivalent 3-0 victories within the finals of the ITTF-ATTU twenty eighth Asian Table Tennis Team Championships in Bhubaneswar, India on October 15.
After edging Japan 3-2 in a dramatic males’s semifinal, China carried that momentum into the ultimate towards Hong Kong, China, to efficiently defend its males’s workforce crown.
In the ladies’s workforce closing, China continued its dominance with a commanding 3-0 win over defending champion Japan. Wang Manyu opened with a 10-12, 11-3, 11-6, 11-3 comeback towards Honoka Hashimoto, whereas world No. 1 Sun Yingsha eased previous Miwa Harimoto 11-9, 11-5, 11-7. Kuai Man accomplished the sweep with an 8-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-9 win over Hina Hayata.
2. Olympic champ Sheng claims maiden National Games title in males’s 10m air rifle
Two-time Olympic champion Sheng Lihao lastly added a long-awaited National Games gold to his glittering resume on October 14, successful the lads’s 10m air rifle closing with 254.6 factors at China’s fifteenth National Games.
The 20-year-old from Jiangsu, who already owns two Olympic gold medals and a world title, led from begin to end in a star-studded closing that included 50m rifle 3 positions Olympic champions Liu Yukun of Shaanxi and Zhang Changhong of Shandong.
The match supplied little suspense. Sheng constructed a two-point cushion heading into the ultimate two pictures and maintained management to clinch his first National Games crown. Wang Yutong of Jilin took silver, whereas Liu claimed bronze.
3. Torch relay for China’s fifteenth National Games to be held in Hong Kong in early November
John Lee, chief govt of China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), stated on October 14 that the torch relay for the fifteenth National Games will happen in early November.
China’s fifteenth National Games, together with the twelfth National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the ninth National Special Olympic Games can be co-hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in November.
4. 293 Chinese athletes to compete at Asian Youth Games in Bahrain
China on October 13 unveiled a 435-member delegation, together with 293 athletes, for the upcoming third Asian Youth Games in Bahrain.
The delegation contains 148 feminine and 145 male athletes who will compete in 191 occasions throughout 20 sports activities.
The third Asian Youth Games can be held from October 22 to 31.