China is relentless in its domination of the medals at the Asian Games

China is simply relentless in its domination of Asian Games. At games five years ago in Jakarta, Indonesia, country won 132 gold medals and 287 medals overall. This time, into Day 9 with five full days remaining, China has alrey broken its mark for gold medals and is very close to matching overall total from five years ago.

With 290 gold medals awarded, China has won almost half — 141. Its overall total stood at 255, just short of 287 mark set in 2018. Host nations typically get a “home field” bounce when hosting Olympics or a large multi-sport event like Asian Games.

ROLLER SKATING

Skater Jung Cheolwon crossed line in Monday’s 3,000-meter relay and began to celebrate thinking he’d won gold medal for South Korea. But he was shocked when scoreboard showed South Korea h finished second to Taiwan, which clocked 4 minutes, 05.692 seconds. South Korea finished in 4:05.702. Jung apologized to his teammates for his costly error.

“I me a rar big mistake,” 27-year-old Jung said. “I didn’t come at full speed to finish line. I let my guard down too early. I am very sorry.”

KURASH ENDS

Uzbekistan failed to completely dominate ancient martial art of kurash, which has its roots in Central Asian country. sport debuted in 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. Uzbekistan won four of seven gold medals available. But China picked up two gold and Iran ded ar. On Monday on closing day, Liu Yi of China defeated Zahra Bagheri of Iran 3-0 in women’s 87-kilogram division, and Segh Azarang of Iran defeated Kim Ming-yo of South Korea 10-0. On Sunday, Yu Dan of China won women’s 70-kilogram final against Donya Aghaei of Iran.

Yu is a former judoka that China has moved into kurash because of its similarities to or martial arts. “In terms of throws and grips, re are many similarities between wresting, judo and kurash,” Yu said. “It has helped me a lot.”

TRIATHLON

Japan completed its sweep of trialthon gold medals by winning mixed relay on Monday. Kenji Nener won men’s gold on Friday and Yuko Takahashi ded women’s title on Saturday. Both ran on Monday in winning team event, which saw China take silver and Honk Kong bronze.

“It was tough,” Takahashi said. “I was almost de at end, but I gave it everything.” Many triathletes competed in world championships in Pontevedra, Spain, on Sept. 22-24 and n rushed to China.

ESPORTS

Esports wrapped up Monday as one of most talked about events at Asian Games. Going into bronze- and gold-medal games, China led medal table with three gold and four overall. South Korea h two gold and also four overall.

Thailand was only or nation with gold and also h four overall. Tawian h four overall but failed to win gold.

Malaysia won bronze on Monday in Dota 2, defeating Kyrgyzstan 2-0. China played Mongolia for gold medal.