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AASIANSIAN GGAMESAMES | Page 3 GGOLFOLF | Page 5 Life imitates Snedeker goes art as India’s wire-to-wire Vinesh wins to win in wrestling gold Wyndham Tuesday, August 21, 2018 FOOTBALL Dhul-Hijja 10, 1439 AH Bale shines as GULF TIMES Real Madrid stroll to victory SPORT Page 7 ASIAN GAMES Good day for Qatar in handball and volleyball Defending handball champions got the better of Iraq 26-20, while newly-crowned AVC Cup winners beat Maldives 3-0 By Anil John Medals tally (top 10) Jakarta G S B T oustafa Heiba and 1. China 15 12 9 36 Anis Zuoaoui scored fi ve goals apiece as 2. Japan 8 11 11 30 Qatar beat Iraq 26-20 3. Korea 5 9 10 24 Min their fi rst main round Group 1 4. Indonesia 4 2 2 8 match in the Asian Games hand- 5. DPR Korea 4 1 2 7 ball tournament here yesterday. The defending champions 6. Iran 3 2 3 8 are overwhelming favourites 7. Chinese Taipei 3 1 4 8 to retain their title they won in 8. India 2 2 1 5 Incheon four years ago, and al- though the margin of victory 9. Mongolia 2 0 4 6 yesterday appears narrow by 10. Uzbekistan 1 2 4 7 their standards, it was only be- cause they were preserving their energies for the tougher matches second half. to come in the competition. Qatar scored eight goals from They had topped the standings eight fast-break attempts and in the preliminary round to join managed fi ve nine-metre goals seven other teams in the main from 10 attempts. In all, their 26 round from where the four semi- goals came from 44 shots. fi nalists would be spotted. Iraq could manage only two Apart from Iraq, Qatar’s group goals from nine metres from the also includes Saudi Arabia and seven chances they got and could Japan, while group 2 consists of convert only half of their eight Bahrain, Iran, Hong Kong and attempts from the six-metre South Korea. mark. For about 10 minutes yester- Ghassab Mohamed with fi ve day, the Iraqis managed to stay goals and Ali Hamzah Ibadi with competitive, but their tenacity four excelled for Iraq. began to slip away afterwards. “It was a good game, we are A nine-metre shot from Rafel pleased with our eff ort today,” Qatar’s Moustafa Heiba (centre) tries to go past Iraq’s goalkeeper (left) during their men’s handball group match at the Asian Games in Jakarta yesterday. Capote, the fi rst of his three captain Murad said. goals, saw Qatar take a 5-3 lead, “We were keen to win but at which Ahmad Madadi extended the same time we wanted to keep two minutes later with a brilliant ourselves fresh because we will shot to the top right corner of the be facing Saudi Arabia after a rest net from the left wing. of only one day,” he added. Skipper Abdulrazzaq Murad In other matches yesterday, then produced a brilliant fast Saudi Arabia and Japan drew 26- break to drill the ball home as 26, Bahrain beat Iran 29-23 and Qatar went up 7-4. South Korea thrashed Hong Kong 40-15. Qatar will take on Saudi Arabia tomorrow. Meanwhile, Qatar also made a winning start in volleyball, beat- ing Maldives 25-11, 25-8, 25-13. The newly-crowned AVC Cup champions scored 26 points from spikes and 28 from op- ponent errors, while four came from serves. “It’s a great feeling know- ing that Qatar is the fi rst Arab country to win AVC Cup and we are fresh off that victory. We are hoping to adapt to the weather and atmosphere well here in In- donesia and are aiming to com- pete in the fi nal rounds,” player Sulaiman Saad said. (From left) Qatar’s Milos Stevanovic, Osman Wagihalla and Ndir Sadikh Head coach Camilo Soto was defend against Maldives’ Huzam Ali during the men’s volleyball Pool F Qatar’s Cherif Samba (centre) goes for a shot as Kazakhstan’s Sergey Bogatu (right) defends during their Capote’s six-metre goal and palpably happy with the victory match at the 2018 Asian Games yesterday. men’s beach volleyball match at the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia, yesterday. Bertrand Roine’s nine-metre eff ort over Maldives. saw Qatar lead 9-5 but although “There was no doubt that the Iraq hit back with three consecu- match was easy for our team, but tive goals during a four-minute it was important to start on a high,” New personal bests for Qatari swimmers rare purple patch, Valero Rivera’s said head coach Camilo Soto. boys had too much experience and Soto said they will be taking one QNA gain experience from the class to be put under pressure. step at a time as far as the Asian Jakarta competitions and also Zuoaoui then produced three Games is concerned. He said that learn from world class consecutive goals in a matter of the match against India will be athletes like Sun Yang,” less than three minutes as Qatar crucial but he has a good team at ataris posted new al-Obaidli said about his took a commanding 15-9 lead his disposal with excellent quality personal bests on Asian Games debut. into the second half. players. Qthe second day of On the third day of swim- Qatar played along in the sec- Qatar, who are in group F, will the swimming competition ming competition, Noah ond half, and after they had taken take on India in their next match with Abdulaziz al-Obaidli al-Khulaifi and al-Obaidli a healthy 20-10 lead, allowed Iraq in the preliminary round tomor- posting 28.78 seconds in will participate in the 50m to score four straight points to row. the men’s 50m backstroke, backstroke, while Abdul narrow the lead. In beach volleyball, Qatar’s while his previous best was Rahman Mohamed in the But Qatar kept stealing goals at Cherif Samba and Ahmed Janko 29.65 seconds. 200m breaststroke race. regular intervals to keep Iraq from defeated Kazakhstan’s Dimitriy Abdulrahman Mohamed Qatar 3x3 basketball team mounting any realistic challenge, Yakovlev and Sergey Bogatu 21-9, posted a new personal will begin its campaign eventually closing off the match. 21-17 in their group B match. The best in the 200m breast- today with a game against Ameen Zakkar also excelled for match took 37 minutes stroke with 2:16.84 while the Maldives. Qatar with three goals In group F, Qatar’s Tamer Ab- his previous best was The team will also face In the fi nal analysis, Qatar’s dulrasoul and Mehdi Sammoud 2:19.75. Nepal, Jordan, and Japan six-goal advantage after the fi rst beat Maldives’ Ismail Sajid and “I’m glad to be here in in order to qualify for the half stood them in good stead as Shiunaz Abdulwahid 21-18, 15- Indonesia where I can quarter-finals. both teams scored 11 goals in the 21, 15-18. Gulf Times 2 Tuesday, August 21, 2018 ASIAN GAMES SWIMMING WEIGHTLIFTING North Korea’s Ikee shines as Sun’s pint-sized bid for fi ve golds stars sweep to golden double AFP tried and agonisingly failed twice Jakarta to lift the 112kg she needed to take gold ahead of Ri despite the comes up short huge cries of “Indonesia, Indo- orth Korea’s pint-sized nesia” ringing around the Jakarta weightlifters ruled the International Expo venue. Teenager Ikee snares two individual titles; Chinese champion misses out on relay roost as the secretive Ri reemerged twice to attempt nation bagged their an Asian Games record and per- Nfi rst two gold medals of the Asian sonal best of 117kg but departed Reuters Jakarta Games yesterday. in agony as her left knee buckled Ri Song-gum pipped local fa- on both attempts and she had to vourite Sri Wahyuni Agustiani be helped from the platform on hinese medal machine to open their account in the one leg. Sun Yang’s bid for a women’s 48kg class then pocket record-equalling fi ve rocket Om Yun-chol retained his TEARS AND CHEERS swimming titles at the Asian Games men’s 56kg title A few moments later draped CAsian Games came to an abrupt with ease as he defeated eternal in the North Korean fl ag, the end yesterday when, having Asian rival Kim Tuan Thach of 20-year-old Ri’s pain turned to picked up his second individ- Vietnam. ecstasy as she received the gold ual gold, he failed to anchor his Ri, who is just 4ft 7in (140cm) medal and belted out the anthem country to victory in the relay. tall, hoisted a massive 112kg in of the secretive nation with tears Japan’s teenage sensation Ri- her fi rst clean and jerk attempt streaming down her cheeks and kako Ikee snared two individual to power past Agustiani who had dribbling from her chin. titles to take her tally to three led after the fi rst snatch disci- Ri’s victory was watched by golds in the Jakarta pool and pline. North Korea sports minister Kim her male compatriots later con- Then Om, who is not much Il-guk who told Korean media: trived to deny Sun the chance to taller at 4ft 11in (151cm), raised “She did a great job.” match her feat. 160kg in the clean and jerk for a “I’m very happy that I won the Sun had landed the 200m 287kg total, 7kg ahead of Thach, fi rst gold,” said an emotional Ri freestyle title on Sunday and the reigning world champion, after emerging from doping con- was no less dominant in win- who also had to settle for silver trol with her left knee encased in ning the 800m free in the fi rst behind Om in Incheon four years an ice pack.

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