Unified Korea Team Grab Historic Gold at Asian Games

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2018 20 China star sets Games record Unified Korea team grab historic gold at Asian Games AFP | Jakarta The Unified Korea women’s basket- a blistering 66 as she won the ball team trounced Thailand 106-63 to women’s golf by three shots hina’s Su Bingtian won the men’s reach the semi-finals, as the players from China’s Liu Wenbo, 100 metres in a tournament-re- spoke of how they had bonded during and helped secure the Ccord 9.92 seconds as he inter- the tournament. All I was thinking women’s team gold medal rupted a series of victories by Afri - “The people on both sides are the about was winning into the bargain. can-born runners at the Asian Games same,” said South Korea’s Ameri - the gold medal. The In climbing, Japan’s yesterday. can-born guard Kim Han-byul. “They time doesn’t matter. I Akiyo Noguchi won Su’s emotional win, following his are not scary or anything like portrayed was finding it a little the inaugural women’s silver at Incheon 2014 and two months on the internet.” hard to get up for the combined, underlining after he equalled the Asian record of her reputation as a seri - 9.91, came as Unified Korea celebrated Giant-killer races and was doing ous gold-medal contender their first gold medal at a major Games. Unified Korea’s successes came on a just enough in the when the sport makes its The combined North and South Ko- busy middle yesterday at the two-week heats. But I found a Olympic debut at Tokyo rean team, symbolising this year’s rap- Games, with 35 gold medals decided in little something extra 2020. prochement on the Korean peninsula, 12 different sports. when it mattered won the women’s 500m dragon boating Malaysian squash legend Nicol David SU BINGTIAN -- their only title together since the 1991 celebrated her 35th birthday in style world table tennis championships. as she won a record-extending fifth Su roared in delight after he streaked women’s singles gold medal. to 100m victory eight-hundredths The former long-time world number ahead of Nigerian-born Qatari Tosin one grittily came from behind in the Japan’s world champion Kento Mo- Ogunode -- brother of Femi Ogunode, fifth set to beat 19-year-old compatriot mota in the last 16, kept China out of with whom Su shares the Asian record. Sivasangari Subramaniam 11-13, 11-9, the men’s singles medals for first time North and South Korea are also field- 5-11, 11-6, 11-8. since 2002. ing joint teams in rowing and basketball In badminton, Indonesia’s Anthony Japanese golfer Keita Nakajima’s at the regional Olympics following a Sinisuka Ginting extended his dream final round of one-under-par 71 was rapid improvement in relations this run into the semi-finals as he handily enough to secure gold by a stroke from year. beat Olympic champion Chen Long Oh Seung-taek of South Korea. Japan 21-19, 21-11. also won the men’s team title. With the win Ginting, who ousted Yuka Saso of the Philippines shot Medal list Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 China 78 59 37 174 2 Japan 40 34 48 122 3 S Korea 27 30 37 94 4 IR Iran 14 14 12 40 5 Indonesia 12 13 25 50 6 N Korea 11 5 7 23 7 Thailand 9 9 31 49 8 Taipei 8 11 14 33 9 India 7 10 19 36 10 Uzbekistan 6 11 11 28 11 Kazakhstan 5 8 28 41 12 Bahrain 4 3 2 9 China’s Su Bingtian (C) competes in the final of the men’s 100m athletics event Athletes from Malaysia (#1), Indonesia (#2), Unified Korea (#3), Hongkong (#4) and Singapore (#5) compete in the men’s canoe 500m traditional boat race.

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