Sport dancers Liang Yujie and Shen Hong won China's 1000th Asian Games gold medal on Saturday.

Liang and Shen claimed the Tango gold, which is China's 1000th since the country made an Asian Games debut in 1974.

Twenty minutes earlier, the pair took the standard Waltz title.

China won 33 golds in the 1974 Asian Games, 51 in 1978, 61 in 1982, 94 in 1986, 183 in 1990, 125 in 1994, 129 in 1998, 150 in 2002 and 165 in 2006.

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