Sun shines to strike Games’ first gold
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Sun Peiyuan won the first gold medal at the 18th Asian Games with an acrobatic victory in wushu’s changquan discipline ahead of local hope Edgar Marvelo.
The changquan competition saw Sun score 9.75 to claim a gold medal in the same city where he won the world title in 2015.
Marvelo, who was inspired to take up wushu after watching movies starring Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee, gave host country Indonesia a silver at 9.72 and Tsai Tse-min of Taiwan picked up bronze. Wushu, a Chinese martial art that was introduced to the Asian Games in 1990 and translates to “long fist,” has been something of a gold mine for China at the regional games.
“I knew if I perform well I can win the gold. So the pressure from the Indonesian athlete was mainly due to him competing in his home ground,” Sun said.
“I wanted to thank everybody for the support. I am glad that I didn’t let you down.”
Lee Ha-sung, who won the event in 2014 to give South Korea the first gold medal at Incheon, finished a distant 12th.
Taiwan won the first of the gold medals in the co-host city of Palembang‚ on the island of Sumatra and more than 400 kilometers northwest of Jakarta‚ with Lin Ying-shin and Lu Shao-chuan combining for a games record 494.1 points in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team final. China collected silver and India’s Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar took bronze.
China won the 10-meter air-pistol mixed team final from South Korea and Vietnam.
A joint Korea rowing team finished last in the first heat of the lightweight men’s four competition behind Indonesia, Uzbekistan and Hong Kong. The South Koreans were more successful in their traditional form of martial arts, securing two of the first taekwondo poomsae medals ever awarded at the Games. Kang Min-sung beat Koorosh Bakhtiyar of Iran in the men’s individual final. South Korea won the men’s team gold medal, with China taking silver and Philippines picking up bronze.
In a wrestling upset, India’s two-time Olympic medalist Kumar Sushil was beaten by Adam Batirov in his opener in the 74-kilogram class and slumped out of medal contention when the Bahrain grappler lost in the quarterfinals.
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