India capitalized on their success at last month’s Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, producing their first gold medallist at the 16th Asian Games today. Indian Pankaj Advani gave his country the first gold at the 45-nation Games when he finished first in mens English Billiards Singles event.
South Korea made a clean swep, winning all four shooting gold medals on offer today aw Gim Yun-Mi won the womens 10m air pistol individual event. She scored 483.3 points for gold, beating Chinese Sun Qi to second place with 481.7. North Korean Jo Yong Suk took bronze with 480.2 points. Earlier in the day, South Korea won the mens and womens team and mens individual in the 10m air pistol events.
The contingent from Seoul had more success as Jang Sunjae won the gold medal in mens individual pursuit of cycling track event. He finished ahead of Cheung King Lok of Hong Kong and Li Wei of China.
Yuichi Hosoda of Japan won the gold medal in mens individual triathlon with a total time of 1:52:15.566. Jia Rui of Macao won the gold in mens Daoshu/Gunshu All-Round in wushu.
Veteran Rui gave Macao its first gold medal at the Guangzhou Asian Games, bettering his silver medal won at the 2002 Doha Games. He scored 19.61 points to win the champion for the broadsword and staff competition under the Taolu category. Lee Jongchan from South Korea took the silver with 19.42, and Nguyen Manh Quyen snatched the first medal for Vietnam at Guangzhou by winning the bronze with 19.38 points.
In the table tennis womens team championship, China beat Taijikistan 3-0, Japan beat Taiwan 3-1, Singapore beat Laos 3-0, India beat Maldives 3-0, North Korea beat Thailand 3-1, Vietnam beat Nepal 3-0, Uzbekistan beat Nepal 3-0, Thailand beat Vietnam 3-1, South Korea beat Qatar 3-0 and Hong Kong beat Malaysia, 3-0.