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November 15, 2010, Monday
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LI Ping set a world record yesterday to win the 53-kilogram weightlifting division at the Asian Games and her teammate Zhang Jie won the men's 62kg class to continue China's dominating run in Guangzhou.
China collected 18 golds yesterday and moved to a leading 37 on the second day of competition at the Games, which end on November 27. South Korea has 13 gold medals overall. Japan is in third place with eight golds and China's Hong Kong is next with two golds.
China topped the medal count at the last Asian Games in Doha with 166 golds and is on its way to repeating that. There are 476 gold medals to be awarded in Guangzhou.
Li snatched 103kg to beat the previous best of 102kg by Ri Song-Hui of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 2002 Busan Asiad.
The 22-year-old's best clean and jerk of 127kg was enough to see her rack up a combined total of 230kg to break the previous aggregate best of 226kg set by compatriot Qiu Hongxia in October 2006.
The records complete a hat-trick for Li, who already held the world record for the clean and jerk of 129kg set in April 2007.
Zulfiya Chinshanlo from Kazakhstan won silver with a combined total of 219, while Prapawadee Jaroengrattanatarakoon (215) took bronze.
Li's world-record effort helped China to its fourth gold from four weightlifting finals so far. "It's a very happy moment for me," said Li.
The Chinese government has promised US$10,000 to every athlete who breaks a world record at the Games, but Li said: "I haven't thought about how I would be spending it."
Earlier, Zhang lifted 145kg in the snatch and 176kg in clean and jerk for a 321 total.
Kim Un-guk of South Korea took silver with a 317 total and Indonesia's Eko Yuli Irawan earned bronze at 311.
It was a sweet revenge for Zhang, who was defeated by Kim at the recent world championships in Antalya, Turkey. "I was suffering from injury at the world championships but I hope we see each other in future events too," the 23-year-old said. "As the saying goes in China: two tigers compete, only one can win."
Elsewhere, an established Olympic swimming superstar and a seven-month pregnant shooter helped South Korea to one of its best days at the Games yesterday.
Park Tae-hwan, the 400-meter freestyle gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, won the 200 freestyle in the pool, leading throughout to break his own Asian record.
Hours earlier, Gim Yun-mi, who is expecting a child in two months, helped out as South Korea swept all four shooting gold medals to give it nine on the day overall.
South Korean shooter Lee Dae-myung won the men's 10-meter air pistol and helped secure a victory in the team competition on the second morning. Later, Gim won the women's 10-meter air pistol and helped South Korea win the women's team gold.
"I got the gold medal with my baby, I feel so happy," Gim said through an interpreter.
Jia Rui helped deliver China's Macau's first-ever gold medal at the Asian Games by winning the daoshu/gunshu all-round title in the Chinese martial arts of wushu.
India, meanwhile, won its first gold of the games when Pankaj Advani beat Nay Thway Oo of Malaysia 3-2 in men's English billiards.
Japanese triathletes finished first and second in the men's race just 24 hours after two of their female compatriots took the major medals in the women's event.
Yesterday, Yuichi Hosoda and Ryosuke Yamamoto finished one-two. On Saturday, Mariko Adachi and Akane Tsuchihashi won gold and silver for Japan, respectively, in the women's race.
China collected 18 golds yesterday and moved to a leading 37 on the second day of competition at the Games, which end on November 27. South Korea has 13 gold medals overall. Japan is in third place with eight golds and China's Hong Kong is next with two golds.
China topped the medal count at the last Asian Games in Doha with 166 golds and is on its way to repeating that. There are 476 gold medals to be awarded in Guangzhou.
Li snatched 103kg to beat the previous best of 102kg by Ri Song-Hui of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 2002 Busan Asiad.
The 22-year-old's best clean and jerk of 127kg was enough to see her rack up a combined total of 230kg to break the previous aggregate best of 226kg set by compatriot Qiu Hongxia in October 2006.
The records complete a hat-trick for Li, who already held the world record for the clean and jerk of 129kg set in April 2007.
Zulfiya Chinshanlo from Kazakhstan won silver with a combined total of 219, while Prapawadee Jaroengrattanatarakoon (215) took bronze.
Li's world-record effort helped China to its fourth gold from four weightlifting finals so far. "It's a very happy moment for me," said Li.
The Chinese government has promised US$10,000 to every athlete who breaks a world record at the Games, but Li said: "I haven't thought about how I would be spending it."
Earlier, Zhang lifted 145kg in the snatch and 176kg in clean and jerk for a 321 total.
Kim Un-guk of South Korea took silver with a 317 total and Indonesia's Eko Yuli Irawan earned bronze at 311.
It was a sweet revenge for Zhang, who was defeated by Kim at the recent world championships in Antalya, Turkey. "I was suffering from injury at the world championships but I hope we see each other in future events too," the 23-year-old said. "As the saying goes in China: two tigers compete, only one can win."
Elsewhere, an established Olympic swimming superstar and a seven-month pregnant shooter helped South Korea to one of its best days at the Games yesterday.
Park Tae-hwan, the 400-meter freestyle gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, won the 200 freestyle in the pool, leading throughout to break his own Asian record.
Hours earlier, Gim Yun-mi, who is expecting a child in two months, helped out as South Korea swept all four shooting gold medals to give it nine on the day overall.
South Korean shooter Lee Dae-myung won the men's 10-meter air pistol and helped secure a victory in the team competition on the second morning. Later, Gim won the women's 10-meter air pistol and helped South Korea win the women's team gold.
"I got the gold medal with my baby, I feel so happy," Gim said through an interpreter.
Jia Rui helped deliver China's Macau's first-ever gold medal at the Asian Games by winning the daoshu/gunshu all-round title in the Chinese martial arts of wushu.
India, meanwhile, won its first gold of the games when Pankaj Advani beat Nay Thway Oo of Malaysia 3-2 in men's English billiards.
Japanese triathletes finished first and second in the men's race just 24 hours after two of their female compatriots took the major medals in the women's event.
Yesterday, Yuichi Hosoda and Ryosuke Yamamoto finished one-two. On Saturday, Mariko Adachi and Akane Tsuchihashi won gold and silver for Japan, respectively, in the women's race.
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