HANGZHOU, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) — Chinese athletes gave the house crowds extra purpose to rejoice on the nation’s National Day as they claimed 19 gold medals on the Asian Games right here on Sunday.
The sports activities arenas in Hangzhou and its co-host cities have grow to be a preferred vacationer attraction through the eight-day nationwide vacation, as tens of hundreds of sports activities followers have poured in to cheer the Chinese athletes on.
The “dream teams” of Chinese divers, paddlers, weightlifters and shooters entertained the house viewers as they mixed to contribute nearly half of the 19 golds for the host nation.
In diving, China continued its dominance by including two synchro titles.
Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen, winners on the Fukuoka World Championships, secured the ladies’s 3m springboard synchro gold with 335.73 factors. 22-year-old Chang has additionally taken gold within the occasion on the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games with Shi Tingmao, whereas Chen, 24, has taken a silver within the 1m springboard on the final Asiad.
“As it’s my first Asian Games title, it means a lot to me,” mentioned Chen.
Malaysia’s Yan Yee Ng and Nur Dhabitah Sabri got here second in 270.27, and the South Korean duo of Park Ha-reum and Kim Su-ji ranked third in 253.56.
In the lads’s 10m platform synchro, China’s duo of Yang Hao and Lian Junjie scored 492.63 factors, 104.85 greater than runners-up Yi Jae-gyeong and Kim Yeong-nam of South Korea. Malaysia’s Lises Bertrand Rhodict Anak and Harold Enrique Maccartney Anak claimed the bronze in 386.07.
In weightlifting, Olympic and world champion Li Fabin lifted 143kg within the snatch and 167kg within the clear and jerk for a complete of 310kg within the males’s 61kg class.
Li outclassed Pak Myong Jin of DPR Korea by three kilograms, whereas Pak’s compatriot Kim Chung Guk got here third with 298kg.
Shen Lijun, males’s 67kg gold medalist on the Tokyo Olympics, took gold within the class on the Asiad, lifting 150kg within the snatch and 180kg within the clear and jerk for a complete of 330kg.
“My next goal is to win the gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games,” Shen mentioned.
Chinese paddlers additionally swept two golds on provide as Sun Yingsha beat Japan’s Hina Hayata to take her first ladies’s singles Asiad title, whereas her compatriots Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin gained the lads’s doubles gold medal.
Sun, who has gained all ten of her earlier worldwide matches towards Hayata, did so once more on the Asiad, rising victorious 4-1 (11-5, 11-9, 10-12, 11-8, 11-7).
“I think we all played very well today, I have played against Hayata many times, I felt that she made great progress,” Sun mentioned.
Chinese shooters additionally underlined their supremacy on the Asian Games, firing down three out of 4 golds on provide.
Li Qingnian, Wu Cuicui and Zhang Xinqiu mixed to set a world document of 357 hits for the ladies’s lure workforce gold. China additionally gained the lads’s and ladies’s lure particular person titles.
China’s males’s shuttlers rocked the home by bouncing again from 2-0 down to say the badminton males’s workforce gold with a 3-2 victory over India.
Li Shifeng saved China from the brink of defeat by crushing Srikanth Nammalwar Kidambi in straight video games after India has taken a 2-0 general lead.
The 23-year-old took an intense first recreation 24-22, after which clinched his 21-9 win in fast succession.
“Pressure? I’m not thinking about it that much, I’m just thinking about playing point by point,” Li mentioned.
The host additionally triumphed on observe and area, profitable golds in ladies’s discus, males’s lengthy bounce, ladies’s heptathlon and 100m hurdles. China’s ladies’s 3×3 basketball workforce and water polo workforce additionally secured their respective titles.
China has now collected 133 gold, 72 silver and 39 bronze medals to prime the medal desk. South Korea sits second with 30 golds, whereas Japan is third on 29 golds.