Sun stars, China picks 6 pool gold
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Sun Yang celebrated after winning the final. |
Sun Yang of China staged a perfect revenge by defeating archrival Park Tae-hwan of South Korea and new challenger Kosuke Hagino of Japan in men's 400m freestyle as Chinese swimmers won six out of seven gold medal on offer on Tuesday at the 17th Asian Games.
Sun, who finished second in the 200m freestyle two days ago, clocked three minutes and 43.23 seconds, 1.25 seconds ahead of silver medallist Hagino and 5.10 seconds faster than Park.
The twice Olympic champion was obviously happy to get the gold with a lot of smiles at the podium.
"I'm happy to get the gold. Competition among strong swimmers including Park and Hagino attracted spot light on Asian swimming. It is not only good for me or Park, it's good for swimming in Asia. We can fight the swimmers from Europe and America now," Sun said.
Olympic champion Ye Shiwen of China won gold in the women's 400m individual medley swimming, defending her title with 4:32.97, a new Games record.
In women's 100m butterfly, it were Chinese swimmers who took both gold and silver. Chen Xinyi of China managed to stand at the highest place of the podium with winning time of 56.61 seconds. It was a new Asian Games record. Teammate Lu Ying, silver medallist at London Olympic Games, took silver with 58.45, and for bronze. Tao Li of Singapore took bronze in 59.08.
Ning Zetao of China was the first to hit the wall at 21.95 in men's swimming 50m freestyle, winning China the first gold in men's swimming events.
Yuanhui Fu of China won gold in the women's 50m backstroke with 27.66. China aced the race in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay with 7:55.17. Japan took silver with 7:58.43, and Hong Kong clocked 8:04.55 for bronze. The Chinese foursome of Guo Junjun, Tang Yi, Cao Yue, and Shen Duo lead the race from start to finish.
Dmitriy Balandin of Kazakhstan nabbed the gold medal in the men's 200m breaststroke, the only one that the Chinese failed to get, with a new Games record at 2:07.67.
China now holds nine women's golds and two men's golds, ahead of Japan's six golds in men and one in women.
Yao Jinnan grabbed the women's all-around gymnatics gold. Her teammate Shang Chunsong pocketed the silver medal.
Japan, who won gold medals in the men's team event, finished 1-2 in the men's event. Yuya Kamoto ranked first in three out of the six apparatus and took the gold medal, followed by teammate Masayoshi Yamamoto.
Chinese marksmen also showed dominance in shooting, winning men's 10m air rifle team and individual gold medals.
China's all-conquering shuttlers suffered a surprise 2-3 defeat to South Korea in the men's badminton team final. Newly-crowned world champion Chen Long lost the opening match 1-2 to Son Wanho. The host went ahead 2-0 after Yoo Yeonseong/Lee Yongdae beat Chinese pair Xu Chen and Zhang Nan.
Olympic champion Lin Dan made it 2-1 in the second singles match. China levelled the score thanks to Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng, who edged Kim Sarang/Ki Gijung. But Lee Hyunil sealed the victory for South Korea with a straight-set victory over Gao Huan.
The day witnessed the first doping case during the Asian Games and also one more world record in weightlifting.
Khurshed Beknzarov of Tajikistan failed the doping test and would be disqualified, the Olympic Council of Asia announced.
"The athlete has been disqualified from the competition as well as these Games and as such his accreditation withdrawn," the OCA said.
Lin Tzu Chi of Chinese Taipei broke the women's 63kg weightlifting world record of clean and jerk and total and won the gold medal. She lifted 145kg in her final attempt in clean and jerk, registering a world mark of 261kg in total.
After four day's competition, China tops the medal tally with 40 gold, 23 silver and 20 bronze medals, followed by South Korea with 20-19-21. Japan stands third with 16-22-22.
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