South Koreans beat Chinese for the women’s doubles gold,
and eliminated them in the semifinals en route to the men’s
doubles title.
Chinese divers had no such troubles in Busan, South
Korea. World champions Guo Jingjingand Wu Minxia performed
more difficult dives and gained higher marks than their rivals
as they easily won in women’s 3-meter synchronized diving. Hu
Jia and Xu Hao won the men’s 10-meter platform synchronized
medal.
Meanwhile, the badminton team overcame the tough host to
won the of the women’s team event 3-1.
Weightlifter Tang Gonghong became the sixth lifter to
break or tie a world mark in seven women’s events, and two
men’s records have fallen.
Tang won in the women’s over-75-kilogram weightlifting
division, and lifted 167.5 kilograms in the clean and jerk,
breaking the old mark of 165 set by China’s Ding Meiyuan at
the 2000 Olympics.
Young athlete Sun Yingjie won the women’s 10,000 meters
and compatriot Shen Shengfei edged India’s Soma Biswas 5,911
to 5,899 in the heptathlon.
Zhong Ling, Zhu Minhong, Sun Dan and Zhang Shuo won the
rhythmic gymnastics team competition.
In the men’s 25 meter standard pistol, Chinese trio Liu
Guohui, Liu Yadong and Jin Yongde scored 1,724 points in the
team’s event to grab the gold.
The Chinese team of In table tennis, women’s pair Zhang
Yining and Li Nan led 3-1 in games but lost the final to South
Korea’s Lee Eun-sil and Seok Eun-mi.
Japan beat China 1-0 to make it to the men’s soccer
semifinals, and Iran beat Kuwait 1-0 to advance.
(SD-Agencies)
