BEIJING, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) — Here are the newest Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. Wu, Zhang encourage China to comeback win over DPR Korea at Asian Games
Wu Xi and Zhang Yuning arrange a objective for one another as China got here from behind to beat DPR Korea 2-1 in its opening males’s soccer Group B match on the 2026 Asian Games on September 16.
China fielded a aspect constructed across the group that completed runner-up at this 12 months’s AFC U23 Asian Cup, with overage gamers Zhang, Wu and Zhu Chenjie forming an skilled backbone. Wu was making his first look for a Chinese nationwide aspect in two years and eight months.
DPR Korea’s Choe Kuk broke the impasse within the twenty seventh minute with a end from contained in the penalty space.
China drew degree within the forty fourth minute when Zhang rose to move house Wu’s cross from the left.
Both sides continued to create possibilities after the break earlier than China took the lead within the 68th minute. Zhang’s headed layoff on the sting of the penalty space discovered Wu, who timed his run to lob the advancing goalkeeper.
The 2026 Asian Games opens in Nagoya, Japan on September 19, with China sending 815 athletes to compete throughout 38 sports activities and 369 occasions.
2. China loses to Japan in males’s basketball semifinals at Asian Games
China misplaced to host Japan 97-77 within the males’s basketball semifinals on the 2026 Asian Games on September 18, lacking the ultimate for the second consecutive Games.
Japan took management early, utilizing a 9-0 run to construct a 28-15 lead within the first quarter. Hu Mingxuan’s 3-pointer helped China minimize the deficit to eight factors with 3:42 remaining within the second quarter, however Japan responded with an 11-0 run to take a 49-30 lead into halftime.
Japan repeatedly capitalized on fast-break alternatives and shot 14 of 19 from the sector in a extremely environment friendly third quarter, at one level stretching its result in 35 factors.
China narrowed the deficit within the fourth quarter however couldn’t mount a full comeback, finally falling by 20 factors.
China will face Iran within the bronze medal sport on September 20.
3. China smashes Kazakhstan to satisfy Vietnam in ladies’s volleyball quarterfinals
China smashed Kazakhstan 3-0 to complete prime of Group B on the ladies’s volleyball event of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 18, organising a quarterfinal conflict with Vietnam.
Holding an general edge, China beat its opponent in straight units 25-18, 25-6, 25-14, with the match lasting only one hour.
China outperformed Kazakhstan on main technical indicators, recording 47 successful spikes and 10 blocks towards Kazakhstan’s 26 and 4, respectively.
4. Wang Manyu tops ITTF ladies’s singles rankings for first time
China’s Wang Manyu has risen to No. 1 within the International Table Tennis Federation ladies’s singles world rankings for the primary time in her profession.
Wang changed compatriot Sun Yingsha on the prime, ending Sun’s 217-week reign as world No. 1 courting again to July 19, 2022. China’s Zhang Yining holds the report with 240 weeks at No. 1.
Sun had occupied the highest spot for greater than 4 years however has not competed internationally since successful the World Table Tennis United States Smash in July.
With rating factors from final 12 months’s WTT Champions Yokohama, WTT Europe Smash and WTT Champions Macao expiring, Sun dropped beneath Wang within the newest rankings.
China’s Wang Chuqin stays No. 1 within the males’s singles rankings.
5. China’s Zhao Jiaju turns into first Asian to win Tor des Geants
After 65 hours, 55 minutes and 22 seconds on his ft, Zhao Jiaju crossed the end line in Courmayeur within the pre-dawn hours of September 16, native time in Italy.
The athlete from southwest China’s Guizhou Province claimed the general championship within the 330-kilometer class of Italy’s Tor des Geants (TOR) ultra-trail race. He grew to become the primary Chinese and the primary Asian runner to win the title because the occasion’s inception, breaking the race report by a full 13 minutes.
Tor des Geants is likely one of the world’s premier ultra-long-distance trail-running occasions. Its course stretches throughout the Alps, passing main peaks, together with Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa. The course covers 336.1 kilometers in whole and options over 24,000 meters of cumulative elevation achieve.