13-year-old prodigy Cui Chenxi captured gold in skateboarding ladies’s avenue to develop into China’s youngest-ever Asian Games champion, whereas Zhang Jie gave the hosts extra motive for celebration by profitable the lads’s avenue title.
HANGZHOU, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — China collected each the lads’s and girls’s avenue gold medals, together with a silver and a bronze on the final day of skateboarding competitors on the Asian Games right here on Wednesday.
13-year-old sensation Cui Chenxi captured gold within the ladies’s avenue closing to develop into China’s youngest-ever Asian Games champion.
Cui’s journey to gold started impressively, provisionally rating first after the run stage. Despite a couple of stumbles within the trick stage, she in the end claimed victory with 242.62 factors.
“I am very happy to win the gold. Before the competition, my family and coaches told me to do my best, but I really wanted to win. This was the most confident competition I’ve ever been in,” Cui stated.
China’s Zeng Wenhui rebounded from early challenges and managed to clinch the silver medal with 236.61 factors whereas Japan’s Ito Miyu secured bronze with 221.59 factors.
Defending champion Didal Margielyn of the Philippines unexpectedly withdrew from the competitors as a result of an damage within the first spherical.
In the lads’s avenue closing, Japanese sensation Onodera Ginu surprisingly did not land any profitable tips and completed with a distant seventh.
China’s 16-year-old Zhang Jie hit the bottom operating with a primary run rating of 70.58 earlier than nailing his first and fourth trick to complete with a mixed rating of 231.14.
Indonesia’s Sannggoe Darma Tanjung sealed silver with 200.63, whereas the bronze medal went to China’s Su Jianjun who totalled 195.73.