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Sun stars, China picks 6 pool gold
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CHINESE swimming superstar Sun Yang stormed past his rivals to an emphatic 400 meters freestyle win yesterday even as the Asian Games was rocked by its first positive drugs test.
The world and Olympic champion hit back from his shock 200m loss to Kosuke Hagino to dominate the Japanese and South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan, winning comfortably by 1.3 seconds.
Sun roared in celebration at the win, among six for China on the night as it finally hit form in the pool and leapt ahead of Japan 11-7 in the swimming titles tally. It completed a triumphant day for Asia’s powerhouse, which has long dominated the regional Olympics and has now accumulated 39 gold medals, more than double the 17 of second-placed South Korea.
In badminton, South Korea beat China to take the gold in a thrilling, five-match men’s team final as Lee Hyun-il sealed victory for the hosts.
China’s world champion Chen Long fell to a storming performance by Son Wan-ho in the opening match, which ended with South Korea winning 3-2.
But it was former Asian Games men’s team gold medalist Lee, 34, who closed the deal after being brought out of retirement to bolster the team’s singles. He took down Gao Huan, 10 years his junior, in the fifth match decider, striding to a 2-0 win before his teammates piled on top of him and then threw him in the air in celebration.
There was controversy elsewhere after it emerged that a Tajikistan footballer had become the first athlete at Incheon to fail a doping test.
Sun, who blamed a thumb injury for his 200m loss to Hagino, kept his cool when Hagino shot out to an early lead. The towering Chinese reeled him in by the halfway mark and powered away over the second 200m to take Park’s Asiad crown, as he did in the same event at the 2012 Olympics.
Olympic champion Ye Shiwen crushed the competition in the women’s 400m medley, Ning Zetao won the men’s 50m freestyle and Chen Xinyi won the women’s 100m butterfly before China’s women finished off with 4x200m freestyle gold.
China claimed 14 golds on Day 4 across shooting, wushu, weightlifting, synchronized swimming and gymnastics, where Yao Jinnan won the women’s individual all-round title. Eighteen-year-old shooting sensation Yang Haoran led a sweep of the men’s 10m air rifle event as the world champion claimed the individual title after helping China to team gold. Teammate Cao Yifei picked up the silver.
Another rush of weightlifting records saw Chinese Taipei’s Lin Tzu-chi break two world bests to win the women’s 63kg, while China’s Lin Qingfeng took gold in the men’s 69kg. China’s world and Olympic champion Lyu Xiaojun summoned up a glorious final lift, staggering to his haunches but then recovering with sheer determination to clean and jerk 200kg and win the men’s 77kg.
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