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N Korea’s Kim breaks 2 world records with lifts
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NORTH Korea’s Kim Un Guk broke two world records in weightlifting at the Asian Games yesterday, while two new women’s world records were set by Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Shu Ching and Kazakhstan’s Zulfiya Chinshanlo.
Kim, claiming North Korea’s second gold of the games, lifted 154 kilograms in the snatch to set his first record of the day in the men’s 62-kilogram class. The 2012 Olympic champion went on to lift a combined total of 332kg for another world best, beating his own previous mark by 5kg.
Competing in the 53kg class, Hsu set the new women’s record and took the gold with a combined total lift of 233kg, 2kg more than the old mark.
Also in the same class, Chinshanlo improved the world record in the clean and jerk by 1kg with a 132kg lift.
On Saturday, North Korea’s Om Yun Chol beat his own world record in the clean and jerk by 1kg, lifting 170kg in the men’s 56kg class.
Elsewhere on the second day of full competition yesterday, Hong Kong’s Olympic cycling star Sarah Lee Wai-sze rode off with women’s keirin gold and South Korea unearthed an unlikely hero in Seoul schoolboy Kim Cheong-yong, 17, who upset the Olympic and world champion Jin Jong-oh to win the 10-meter air pistol title.
Kim, Jin and Lee Daem-yung retained the team gold for South Korea earlier.
China claimed the silver through Pang Wei, Pu Qifeng and Wang Zhiwei, beating India by one point on the count of inner 10s after both teams were level at 1,743.
China, however, ended defending champion Kuwait’s reign in the trap event by winning both the team gold and the individual title via Gao Bo.
The Chinese trio of Du Yu, Zhang Yiyao and Gao edged out Kuwait by three shots, winning 357-354, while South Korea claimed the bronze.
Gao then overcame London Olympics bronze-medalist Fehaid Aldeehani 15-12 in the individual final. Andrey Mogilevskiy took the bronze with a 14-8 win over El Najjar Walid of Lebanon.
An under-strength Japan upset favorite China to claim the men’s team gymnastics gold, with Beijing’s golden boy Zou Kai outdone in the floor routine by an unfancied outsider, 23-year-old Shotaro Shirai.
The Chinese, who have dominated Asian Games gymnastics, were beaten into third by South Korea.
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