BEIJING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — Here are the most recent Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. Zhu Jingyi wins girls’s recurve silver at World Archery Championships
China’s 19-year-old archer Zhu Jingyi claimed a silver medal after falling to South Korea’s Kang Chae-young within the girls’s recurve last on the 2025 World Archery Championships in Gwangju on Sept. 12, securing China’s solely medal on the match.
Debutante Zhu impressed from the beginning, ending second within the qualification spherical with 691 factors, only one level behind Tokyo Olympic champion An San of South Korea. She went on to defeat Indonesia’s Diananda Choirunisa 6-4 within the semifinals to succeed in the title match, the place Kang in the end prevailed 7-3 to clinch the gold on residence soil.
China’s different two archers, Huang Yuwei and Li Jiaman, had been each eradicated by An, who completed third.
2. Hu Kai baggage two golds from ISSF World Cup in Ningbo
Chinese 10m air pistol shooter Hu Kai received each particular person and combined staff gold as China tops the medal tally with two golds, 4 silvers and one bronze on the ISSF World Cup in Ningbo, jap China’s Zhejiang Province as of Sept. 13.
Hu, 23, partnered Yao Qianxun to take the opening victory on Sept. 9 earlier than including a person gold in males’s occasion on the next day. This win continued his unbeaten run in 2025 throughout 4 ISSF World Cup occasions. Yao later added a silver in girls’s 10m air pistol.
Olympic champion Sheng Lihao and 16-year-old Peng Xinlu set a brand new qualification world report of 635.9 factors in 10m air rifle combined staff however fell brief within the gold medal match. Sheng noticed his personal world report within the males’s occasion shattered by Danilo Dennis Sollazzo of Italy, who edged him for the victory with 255 factors on Sept. 11.
3. Chinese athletes win 4 titles at World Athletics Continental Tour in Beijing
Chinese athletes claimed 4 victories out of 14 occasions on the 2025 World Athletics Continental Tour in Beijing on Sept. 7, with youth expertise Yan Ziyi claiming the ladies’s javelin with 64.46 meters.
Yan, 17, stated, “I just want to make progress step by step, and my next goal is to break the 66-meter mark.”
Zhong Tao created a private better of 5.75 meters to win the pole vault title, whereas Li Jialun registered a seasonal finest of two.20 meters to clinch victory within the males’s excessive bounce.
Liang Tiantian had a private better of 8:57.65 to win the ladies’s 3,000m race.
4. China’s Zheng Qinwen withdraws from Billie Jean King Cup finals
China’s Olympic champion and prime girls tennis participant Zheng Qinwen has pulled out of the upcoming 2025 Billie Jean King Cup finals in China’s Shenzhen, in line with an announcement made by organizers on Sept. 9.
Zheng underwent surgical procedure on her proper elbow in July and missed the US Open.
2024 Olympic combined doubles silver medallist Wang Xinyu will lead host China into the quarterfinal conflict with defending champion Italy on Sept. 16. World No. 8 Paolini will spearhead the Italians’ title protection alongside veteran Sara Errani.
5. China qualifies for U23 AFC Asian Cup finals
China and Australia took a degree apiece as they performed out a 0-0 stalemate within the last Group D sport of the AFC U23 Asian Cup qualifiers on Sept. 9, with each groups reaching the finals.
The Olyroos completed as group winners with a superior purpose distinction. China took second place and certified by advantage of ending as one of many 4 finest runners-up among the many 11 qualifying teams.
The U23 Asian Cup finals can be held in January 2026 in Saudi Arabia.