HANGZHOU, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) — Chinese Taipei’s Gu Shiau-shuang beat Moldir Zhangbyrbay of Kazakhstan to seize karate ladies’s kumite 50kg gold on the Hangzhou Asian Games right here on Sunday.
After comfortably crushing Chanyanut Chippensuk of Thailand 11-3 within the quarterfinals and Shakhrizoda Ismatillaeva of Uzbekistan 8-2 within the semifinals, Gu was met with fierce assaults, falling behind 5-0 halfway via the ultimate, however she aggressively fought again to 5-5 in the long run and received the match by Hantei.
“The 0-5 points down in the beginning was my fault, because I took a defending way to handle the situation,” Gu stated after the match.
“But my coach kept telling me that I still had time and I needed to fight back in a smarter and patient manner. I followed his advice and finally made it.”
Sara Bahmanyar of Iran and Alajmi Hawraa of the United Arab Emirates claimed bronze.
It was a household affair within the males’s workforce kata, as Japan’s brothers Ryuji Moto and Kazumasa Moto, alongside Koji Arimoto, beat Macao, China within the gold medal match.
“I feel happy to be able to perform with this team. Since we started this team, we have always done the same kata for the final. We have honed it to perfection,” stated Kazumasa Moto, who additionally claimed gold within the particular person kata on Thursday.
Iraq and Kuwait shared the bronze medals.