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China Sweep Japan for Record 10th Asian Games Women's Volleyball Title
China swept hosts Japan 25-19, 25-20, 25-23 in the women's volleyball final at the Asian Games. It is their third straight Asian Games gold and a record-extending 10th title in the event. China controlled the first two sets. Japan made its strongest push in the third. China held on to close it out 25-23. The final came a day after a five-set semi-final win over Thailand . Thailand took the first set 25-23. China levelled with a 25-21 second set and led after a 25-11 third, before Thailand forced a decider. The match carried extra weight. Thailand had beaten China in the Asian Championship final just 22 days earlier. That win gave Thailand its first-ever Olympic berth in women's volleyball, for Los Angeles 2028. It also denied China a direct berth. Japan reached the final with a 3-0 semi-final win over South Korea (25-20, 25-22, 25-16). Thailand won bronze after their semi-final loss.
Esha Singh Wins 25m Pistol Silver After Shoot-Off Loss to China's Xiao Jiaruixuan
India's Esha Singh won silver in the women's 25m pistol at the Asian Games. She lost the gold to China's Xiao Jiaruixuan in a shoot-off in Nagoya. Esha had a tough route to the medal round. She qualified for the final in eighth place with a score of 580-22x . She then needed several shoot-offs to stay in contention. She started the final with five hits from five shots. Xiao pulled ahead with consecutive perfect series. The two finished level after the regular final and went to a shoot-off for gold. Xiao hit three targets. Esha hit two. North Korea's Kim Hyon Suk took bronze. Esha is the world No. 1 in the event and holds the senior world record of 43 hits , set at the Munich World Cup in May. She also won team gold and individual silver in this event at Hangzhou. The individual medal came after a disappointing team final. India's trio of Manu Bhaker , Esha and Rahi Sarnobat finished fifth with 1727-56x. Manu missed the individual final too. She ended 11th in qualification on 579-18x. China won the team gold. South Korea took silver and Chinese Taipei took bronze.
North Korea Win Seven of 11 Weightlifting Golds as China Take Three
North Korea has dominated weightlifting at the Asian Games. They have won seven of the 11 golds decided so far. China has three and Indonesia has one. North Korea's golds. Ri Song-gum won the women's 49kg with a world record. Hyon Gyong Kang won the women's 53kg. Kwang Ok Oh won the women's 57kg. Myong Jin Pak won the men's 65kg. Won Ju Ri won the men's 70kg with a 349kg total, made up of a 151kg snatch and a 198kg clean and jerk. Kuk Hyang Song won the women's 69kg. Kwang Ryol Ro won the men's 85kg. China's golds. Yang Yang won the men's 60kg. Liuyue Yang won the women's 61kg. Renxiu He won the women's 77kg. Silver and bronze. North Korea's Un Chol Pang took silver at 60kg and Jin Hae Pak took silver at 61kg. China's Yueji He won silver at 65kg. Chinese Taipei won silver at 69kg through Wen-huei Chen. Kazakhstan took silver at 77kg and 85kg through Ayanat Zhumagali and Alexey Churkin. Thailand's Suratwadee Yodsarn won silver at 57kg. Japan's Masanori Miyamoto took silver at 70kg. Bronze medals went to Thailand's Theerapong Silachai (60kg), Vietnam's Minh Tri Tran (65kg), Chinese Taipei's Guan-ling Chen (57kg) and Hsing-chun Kuo (61kg), the Philippines' Albert Ian Delos Santos (70kg), Bahrain's Ingrid Grueso (69kg), Iran's Reihaneh Karimi (77kg) and China's Shunnan Chen (85kg).
Rahmat Erwin Abdullah Wins 75kg Weightlifting Gold by 1kg for Indonesia
Indonesia's Rahmat Erwin Abdullah won the men's 75kg weightlifting gold at the Asian Games by just 1kg . He lifted a total of 366kg at the Nagoya City Trade and Industry Center. Abdullah snatched 160kg. He then finished with a 206kg clean and jerk. Thailand's Weeraphon Wichuma took silver with 365kg, made up of a 160kg snatch and a 205kg clean and jerk. The gold was decided on the last lifts. Wichuma landed 205kg to go top on 365kg. Abdullah then took 206kg on his second clean and jerk attempt. That gave him the title. North Korea's Ri Chong-song failed twice at 202kg and had to settle for bronze with 357kg. It was Indonesia's second gold of the Games. The first came in the men's team badminton final against China. Abdullah is a two-time world champion at 73kg.
Uzbekistan Win Kurash Golds Through Agojonova and Bakhtiyorov
Uzbekistan won gold in both kurash finals recorded so far at the Asian Games. They took the women's -57kg and men's +90kg titles. In the women's -57kg final, Ibodatkhon Agojonova won gold for Uzbekistan. Chinese Taipei's Wan-ting Lee took silver. Japan's Natsumi Kuroki and Chinese Taipei's Pin-chun Wang shared bronze. In the men's +90kg final, Shokhrukhkhon Bakhtiyorov won gold for Uzbekistan. Tajikistan's Shakarmamad Mirmamadov took silver. Uzbekistan's Bekmurod Oltiboev and Thailand's Kunathip Yea-On shared bronze.
Sibei Sun and Rimu Nakamura Win Freestyle BMX Park Golds for China and Japan
China and Japan shared the two freestyle BMX park golds at the Asian Games. China won the women's title. Japan won the men's. In the women's park final, China's Sibei Sun took gold. Japan's Miharu Ozawa won silver. Sun's teammate Jiaqi Sun took bronze. In the men's park final, Japan's Rimu Nakamura won gold and his teammate Kaede Ozawa took silver. China's Xiaolong Sha finished third.
China Win Artistic Swimming Duet and Mixed Team Golds, Japan Take Both Silvers
China won both artistic swimming golds at the Asian Games. They took the duet and the mixed team event. Japan won silver and Kazakhstan won bronze in both. In the duet, Yanjun Lin and Huiyan Xu won gold for China. Japan's Moe Higa and Tomoka Sato took silver. Kazakhstan's Nargiza Bolatova and Yasmin Tuyakova took bronze. China then won the mixed team final. The podium was the same as in the duet: China first, Japan second and Kazakhstan third.
South Korea Win Women's Handball Gold, Hosts Japan Take Silver
South Korea won the women's handball gold at the Asian Games. Japan took silver and China finished with bronze. Japan, the hosts, had to settle for second place on home soil.
Boonson Completes Sprint Double, Yan Ziyi Sets Javelin Games Record on Athletics Day 8
Day 8 of Asian Games athletics in Nagoya gave out golds to Thailand , China , Japan , Singapore , Bahrain and Chinese Taipei . Here is how the non-Indian finals went. Sprints and hurdles. Thailand's Puripol Boonson won the men's 200m. He had already won the 100m, so he leaves with the sprint double. China's Yuanjiang Chen won the men's 110m hurdles. Japan's Rachid Muratake took silver and the Philippines' John Tolentino took bronze. Singapore's Shanti Pereira won the women's 200m after taking silver in the 100m. Japan went 1-2 in the women's 100m hurdles through Mako Fukube and Hitomi Nakajima . Field and combined events. China's Ziyi Yan won the women's javelin with a Games record of 70.46m . Japan's Haruka Kitaguchi took silver with 62.70m. China's Yingying Huang won the women's long jump by 2cm over India's Ancy Sojan. Chinese Taipei's Fu Chao-hsuan won the men's high jump on countback. Japan's Yuma Maruyama won the men's decathlon. Distance. Bahrain's Winfred Yavi won the women's 3000m steeplechase in an Asian Games record 9:04.36. It is her second gold of these Games after the 10,000m. Also decided. Japan's Yuri Tanaka won the women's heptathlon, with teammate Nanaka Kajiki taking silver and Kazakhstan's Alina Chistyakova bronze. In the women's marathon race walk, China took gold and silver, with Li Ma second. Japan's Yukiko Umeno won bronze.
Parul Chaudhary Sets National Record for Steeplechase Bronze as Tejaswin, Harita Also Medal
India added three more athletics bronze medals on Day 8 at the Asian Games. Parul Chaudhary won the women's 3000m steeplechase with a national record . Tejaswin Shankar took decathlon bronze. Harita Bhadra won bronze in a photo finish in the women's 200m. Parul clocked 9:08.67 . That beat her own national mark of 9:12.46 by 3.79 seconds. She stayed with the leaders for most of the race. Bahrain's Winfred Yavi then pulled away on the last lap and won in an Asian Games record of 9:04.36 . Kazakhstan's Norah Jeruto Tanui took silver in 9:06.82. India's Ankita finished fourth in a personal best 9:19.24. It is Parul's third Asian Games medal. Tejaswin finished the 10-event decathlon with 7,934 points . He briefly led the competition on the way. Japan's Yuma Maruyama won gold and China's Xinghua Chen took silver. Harita ran 23.20 in the 200m final. She edged the fourth-placed runner by just 0.01 seconds. Singapore's Shanti Pereira won gold, and China's Yujie Chen took silver. Pereira had earlier taken silver in the 100m. Together with the two silvers from the high jump and long jump, India's athletics tally at these Games reached 13 medals . That is six silver and seven bronze.
Sarvesh Kushare and Ancy Sojan Miss Gold by Whisker to Win Athletics Silvers
India's Sarvesh Kushare and Ancy Sojan both won silver on Day 8 of Asian Games athletics in Nagoya. Both led their finals for long stretches. Both lost gold by the smallest of margins. In the men's high jump, Kushare cleared 2.25m . He had been flawless through 2.22m, clearing every height at the first attempt. He needed a second attempt at 2.25m. Chinese Taipei's Fu Chao-hsuan cleared the same height first time. Both men then failed three times at 2.28m. Fu took gold on countback. Kushare arrived in Nagoya after a Commonwealth Games silver earlier this year. In the women's long jump, Ancy jumped 6.53m on her fifth attempt and held top spot for most of the final. China's Huang Yingying then produced 6.55m on her last jump. That was just 2cm better. It is Ancy's second successive Asian Games silver. Her national record stands at 6.88m. India's Shaili Singh held a podium place for much of the final too. China's Tan Mengyi jumped 6.46m in the last round to push her to fourth. Shaili's best was 6.42m.
South Korea Beat Japan 3-1 for Fifth Straight Asian Games Baseball Gold
South Korea beat hosts Japan 3-1 in the men's baseball final at Toyohashi Municipal Baseball Stadium. It is their fifth straight Asian Games gold . Korea led after the second inning. Japan levelled in the seventh after two singles off starter Gwak Been . Gwak was superb otherwise. He threw 6 1/3 innings , allowed one run and struck out nine . The game turned in the eighth. Kim Do-yeong hit a go-ahead RBI infield single. Moon Bo-gyeong then added an insurance run with a single. Relievers Jo Byeong-hyeon and Park Yeong-hyun closed out the win. Korea finished with 12 hits and 15 strikeouts as a staff. The win was also revenge. Japan had beaten Korea 5-0 in the Super Round two days earlier. This is Korea's seventh Asian Games baseball title overall. The streak started at Guangzhou 2010 and ran through Incheon 2014, Jakarta-Palembang 2018 and Hangzhou 2022. Chinese Taipei took bronze. China finished fourth.
Anahat Singh Scripts History With Squash Singles Silver at 18
Anahat Singh became the first Indian woman to reach an Asian Games squash singles final, but had to settle for silver after a straight-games defeat to Malaysia's top seed Sivasangari Subramaniam at the Nagoya Kinjo Futo Arena. The reigning champion from Hangzhou 2023 and world No. 5 dominated from the start, winning 11-4, 11-4, 11-7 in just 27 minutes, never allowing the 18-year-old Singh to settle into her rhythm. It capped a strong week for Singh, who beat Singapore's Wai Lynn Au Yeong in the round of 16, compatriot Tanvi Khanna in an all-Indian quarter-final, and produced a dramatic comeback win over Japan's Satomi Watanabe in the semi-final. The silver surpasses the bronze medals won by India's previous squash stalwarts Dipika Pallikal (2014, 2018) and Joshna Chinappa (2018), and comes on the same day India's Abhay Singh also won silver in the men's singles final.
China and South Korea Split Modern Pentathlon Individual and Team Golds
South Korea and China split the modern pentathlon titles at the Asian Games, swapping positions between the individual and team events. Liuchang Li won men's individual gold for China, while Seungmin Seong took women's individual gold for Korea. The two nations then swapped places in the team events: Korea won men's team gold, and China topped the women's team standings.
Thailand Sweep Four of Five Teqball Golds at Asian Games
Thailand , South Korea and Myanmar shared the teqball titles at the Asian Games across five events. Thailand won both the men's and women's doubles titles, with South Korea's Junsuk Lee taking men's singles gold and Myanmar's Khin Hnin Wai winning the women's singles. Thailand completed a fourth teqball gold in the mixed doubles.
Hong Kong Sweep Gold and Silver in Squash Mixed Doubles, India Take Bronze
Hong Kong swept gold and silver in the mixed doubles squash final at the Asian Games, with Ka Yi Lee and Ming Hong Tang beating compatriots Yee Lam Toby Tse and Cheuk Nam Lai for the title. India's Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar took bronze, sharing the medal with Malaysia's Rachel Arnold and her partner.
Ng Eain Yow Defends Squash Singles Gold, Abhay Singh Settles for Silver
Malaysia's Ng Eain Yow defended his Asian Games men's singles squash title, beating India's Abhay Singh 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 in the final at the Nagoya Kinjo-Futo Arena to deny India a first-ever gold in the event. Abhay had enjoyed a stellar run to the final, becoming only the second Indian man after Saurav Ghosal to reach an Asian Games singles final, with straight-game wins over Thailand's Arkaradet Arkarahirunya, Sri Lanka's Ravindu Laksiri and Japan's Ryunosuke Tsukue, before a 11-3, 12-10, 11-6 semi-final win over Pakistan's Muhammad Irfan. Ng, the reigning champion from Hangzhou 2022, needed just 20 minutes to beat Pakistan's Noor Zaman in the other semi-final. The gold also carried a direct qualification place for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, where squash will make its Olympic debut, meaning Ng has already booked his spot while Abhay's silver leaves India's own qualification route still open. Abhay, a 2024 Arjuna Award recipient, was already part of India's men's team gold from Hangzhou 2022.
Hayato Katsuki Wins Marathon Race Walk Gold for Hosts Japan
Japan claimed gold and bronze in the men's marathon race walk at the Asian Games, with Hayato Katsuki winning on home soil and Motofumi Suwa completing the podium either side of China's Yingcheng Zhou , who took silver. The result adds to a strong week for race walking at Aichi-Nagoya, following China's clean sweep of both half marathon race walk golds earlier in the Games. Japan's win in the marathon event gives the hosts a share of the spoils in the discipline on home roads.
Thailand, China and Bahrain Share Sprint and Field Golds in Nagoya
The Asian Games athletics program produced a string of sprint and field event golds across the week, with China , Thailand , Uzbekistan , Bahrain and Oman among the nations topping the podium. In the sprints, Thailand's Puripol Boonson won men's 100m gold with Oman taking both silver and bronze, while China's Yujie Chen won women's 100m ahead of Singapore's Shanti Pereira and Bahrain's Edidiong Odiong. Thailand's Joshua Atkinson added a men's 400m title ahead of the UAE and Japan. In the throws and jumps, China's Abuduaini Tuergong and Nanjun Wu went 1-2 in the men's discus, Uzbekistan's Sukhrob Khodjaev won the men's hammer, and China's Wen Su topped the men's triple jump. Bahrain's naturalised stars continued their dominance in the middle distances, with Nelly Korir winning the women's 1500m in a Games-record 4:04.50.
Prachi Choudhary Wins India's First 400m Medal Since 2018 With Bronze
Prachi Choudhary won India's first Asian Games women's 400m medal since Hima Das's silver at Jakarta 2018, clocking 53.21 seconds for bronze behind a Games-record run from Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser . Naser won gold in 49.20 seconds, breaking her own Games record, with Iran's Zahra Zarei Manoujan taking silver in 52.38. India's other finalist, Kiran Pahal , finished fifth in 53.41. The medal came on a golden day for Indian athletics, with the same session also producing shot put silver for Tajinderpal Singh Toor and marathon silver for Sawan Barwal, while Parul Chaudhary narrowly missed a medal in the women's 1500m, clocking a personal best 4:09.46 for fourth as Bahrain's Nelly Korir won gold in a Games-record 4:04.50.
Tajinderpal Singh Toor's Title Defence Ends in Silver as Tayebi Sets Games Record
Tajinderpal Singh Toor's bid for a third straight Asian Games shot put gold ended in silver, as Iran's Mohammadreza Tayebi broke the Games record with a decisive final-round throw at Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium. Toor opened with 20.06m and improved to 20.26m in his second attempt, but struggled to find rhythm through the middle rounds before responding with a season-best 20.64m in his fifth attempt. It wasn't enough, with Tayebi's 20.81m bettering Toor's own previous Games record of 20.75m, set when he won gold at Jakarta 2018. Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Tolu completed the podium with 20.48m. The silver extends Toor's run of winning a medal at every Asian Games he has competed in, following gold at both Jakarta 2018 and Hangzhou 2023. It caps a mixed year for the 31-year-old, who was originally set to be India's male flag-bearer at the opening ceremony before a kit issue forced a late change to kabaddi's Pawan Sehrawat.
Kazakhstan and Tajikistan Lead Central Asian Sweep of MMA Debut
Kazakhstan , Tajikistan , Singapore and Thailand shared the golds across mixed martial arts' debut weight categories at the Asian Games, in a tightly contested Central Asian-dominated competition. Tajikistan's Mirzobek Umarov and Otabek Rajabov won the men's modern -60kg and traditional -65kg titles respectively, while Kazakhstan's Kadyrbek Shinbayev and Yerkingali Burkutalin topped the men's modern -71kg and traditional -77kg categories. In the women's events, Singapore's Hui Hoon Teo won the traditional -60kg gold (with India's Suchika Tariyal taking bronze), while Thailand's Kanjutha Phattaraboonsorn claimed the modern -54kg title.
Japan's Hojo Breaks Up China's Triathlon Dominance With Men's Gold
Japan's Takumi Hojo won the men's triathlon title at the Asian Games, denying China a clean sweep of the discipline's golds. Hojo took the men's individual title ahead of China's Xirui Zhang. China's Xinyu Lin won the women's race and also topped the mixed relay podium.
Malaysia and Thailand Win Sepak Takraw Team Regu Golds
Malaysia and Thailand split the sepak takraw team regu golds at the Asian Games. Malaysia won the men's team regu final ahead of Thailand, with Indonesia and Japan sharing bronze. Thailand's women then won their own team regu title over South Korea, with Indonesia taking bronze.