BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) — Here are the most recent Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. China luggage file 169 golds as Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games closes
The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games got here to a detailed on Oct. 4, with China topping the gold medal desk for the twelfth consecutive version, and ending with 169 gold, 89 silver and 83 bronze medals, its greatest haul at an abroad Asiad.
The delegation competed in 369 of the Games’ occasions throughout 38 sports activities and 59 disciplines, successful gold in 38 of these disciplines and medals in 47, regardless of fielding fewer athletes and entries than on the earlier Games in Hangzhou and dealing with a decreased variety of medal occasions to contest.
“After the Nagoya Asian Games, we will immediately shift to preparations for the Los Angeles Olympics, accelerate efforts to address our weaknesses, comprehensively improve our competitive level, and go all out to meet the challenge of the Los Angeles Olympics,” Zhang Xin, secretary-general of the Chinese delegation, mentioned in a press release.
2. Changchun 2027 marks 100-day countdown
Medals, the torch, uniforms and tools for the Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade have been unveiled on Oct. 7 because the Games have fun its 100-day countdown.
The torch, named “Ji Xiang,” or “Auspicious Flight,” is impressed by the clivia, Changchun’s metropolis flower. The medals, named “Ji Meng,” or “Auspicious Dream,” mix conventional Chinese cultural components, winter sports activities imagery and options related to Changchun.
The flame for Changchun 2027 was lit on Oct. 8 in Turin, Italy, the place the primary World University Games have been held in 1959.
Scheduled to open on Jan. 15, the Games will function 97 occasions throughout 12 sports activities. Changchun will host 61 occasions throughout 5 ice sports activities and 4 snow sports activities, whereas Jilin City will stage 36 occasions throughout 4 snow sports activities.
3. China’s Zheng advances to second China Open semis
China’s Zheng Qinwen superior to her second China Open girls’s singles semifinal, the place she faces Thirteenth-seeded Elise Mertens on Oct. 10 after the Belgian surprised eighth seed Iga Swiatek of Poland.
Zheng defeated sixth seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-3, 7-6 (6). Wild card Zheng broke serve thrice to take the opening set. After the pair swapped breaks halfway by way of the second, Zheng got here from 2-0 right down to take the tie-break 8-6.
Women’s doubles high seeds, China’s Zhang Shuai and the Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova, beat fifth-seeded Storm Hunter of Australia and Kristina Mladenovic of France 6-2, 6-2 to achieve the semifinals, the place they face Mertens and Russia’s Diana Shnaider.
4. Top seed Wang reaches girls’s semifinals at China WTT China Smash
Top seed Wang Manyu of China superior to the ladies’s singles semifinals on the 2026 WTT China Smash on Friday, sweeping South Korea’s Shin Yu-bin 4-0.
Wang’s compatriot Chen Xingtong rallied from two video games right down to remove Japanese chopper Honoka Hashimoto 5-11, 8-11, 11-2, 12-10, 11-3, 11-6, securing her first win of their third encounter.
In the lads’s singles, China’s Zhou Qihao beat South Korea’s Jang Woo-jin 4-2 to arrange a semifinal conflict with world No. 1 Sora Matsushima, who beat Chinese Taipei’s Feng Yi-hsin 4-1.
5. China suffers third straight defeat with loss to Tajikistan in soccer pleasant
China’s males’s soccer crew misplaced 1-0 to Tajikistan in a pleasant on Oct. 6, struggling its third consecutive defeat.
Vahdat Khanonov scored within the 53rd minute after China goalkeeper Liu Dianzuo spilled a long-range shot, and China’s possibilities worsened when Wei Shihao was despatched off six minutes later for a second yellow card.
The loss adopted China’s heavy 5-0 defeat to Palestine in its earlier match and marked the primary time Tajikistan had scored in opposition to China since 1998.