HANGZHOU, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) — China pocketed 4 gold medals from athletics whereas Oluwakemi Mujidat Adekoya of Bahrain broke the Games file to win girls’s 400m hurdles on the Asian Games right here on Tuesday.
China was topped in each males’s and ladies’s 4x100m relays, Zhu Yaming claimed males’s triple leap title and Sun Qihao added one other one for the host nation in males’s decathlon.
Adekoya took dwelling the ladies’s 400m hurdles gold medal in 54.45 seconds, adopted by China’s Mo Jiadie who completed a season better of 55.01 seconds. Vithya Ramraj of India took bronze in 55.68 seconds.
In males’s 4x100m relay, Chinese sprinters, consisted of Chen Guanfeng, Xie Zhenye, Yan Haibin, Chen Jiapeng, completed a season better of 38.29 seconds. Japan was second with 0.15 seconds behind and South Korea took the bronze in 38.74 seconds.
“Winning a medal in my own country makes it a very special moment, and it’s one of the most important moments in my entire career,” Chen stated.
The host additionally received the ladies’s relay as Liang Xiaojing, Wei Yongli, Yuan Qiqi and Ge Manqi mixed for 43.39 seconds. Thailand took silver with 44.32 seconds, and Malaysia bronze with 45.01 seconds.
“I’m really, really happy. Both the men’s and women’s relay teams won gold. I feel that we’ve left no regrets on this track,” Ge stated.
Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Zhu Yaming secured the boys’s triple leap title with 17.13 meters. His teammate Fang Yaoqing completed second with 16.93m and the bronze medal went to Indian’s Praveen Chitharavel with 16.68m.
“When thinking about Paris, I don’t feel as much burden as I did when I was preparing for Tokyo. I just want to be able to enjoy the moments that competitive sports have created,” Zhu stated.
Sun Qihao scored an total 7,816 factors to win the boys’s decathlon, ending China’s 21-year drought for the gold medal in Asian Games. Tejaswin Shankar of India completed second with a private greatest of seven,666 factors. Japan’s Yuma Maruyama bagged bronze with 7,568 factors.
“This gold medal is a reward for all the hard work I’ve put in these two years. I have set my targets on earning above 8,000 points and qualifying for the Olympics,” Sun stated.
Abderrahman Alsaleck of Qatar dominated males’s 400m hurdles with 48.04 seconds. Another Qatari, Bassem Hemeida, took silver with a private better of 48.52 seconds. China’s Xie Zhiyu pocketed bronze in 49.16 seconds.
In an intensive males’s 800m race, Saudi Arabia’s Essa Kzwani received the gold with 1:48.05, Indian’s Mohammed Pulikkalakath completed second with 1:48.43 and Husain Al Farsi of Oman took bronze with 1:48.51.
The girls’s 5,000m noticed a dramatic race. Japan’s Ririka Hironaka led all the best way till the final gasp, solely to see Parul Chaudhary of India catch up within the ultimate 50 meters to win the gold with 15:14.75. Hironaka needed to settle with a silver in 15:15.34, whereas Kazakhstan’s Caroline Kipkirui was third with 15:23.12.
In girls’s excessive leap, Uzbekistan duo Safina Sadullaeva and Svetlana Radzivil pocketed the gold and silver medals, Kazakhstan’s Nadezhda Dubovitskaya took bronze. The three medalists all succeeded in 1.86 meters, however Sadullaeva managed to take it in her first try.
India’s Rani Annu secured the ladies’s javelin throw gold with a season better of 62.92 meters, the silver medal went to Hatarabage Lekamge of Sri Lanka with a private better of 61.57, and China’s Lyu Huihui bagged bronze with 61.29.