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China win men's 4x200m freestyle relay for 1st time at Asian Games

Hosts China beat archrival Japan to win the men's 4x200 meters freestyle relay at the Guangzhou Asian Games here on Monday.

It was the first time China won the event at the Asian Games.

Chinese star swimmer Zhang Lin established the lead in the first 200m, and then Jiang Haiqi, Li Yunqi, and Sun Yang kept the lead to win the relay in seven minutes and 7.68 seconds.

Japan took the second in 7:10.39, while South Korea finished third in 7:24.14.

"We all did a wonderful job tonight," said Zhang, winner of the 800m freestyle at 2009 Rome Worlds. "It's exciting to beat Japan after so many years waiting."

Zhang, who failed to claim a medal from Sunday's 200m freestyle, said it would be a new start for him.

"I will take the victory as a new start," said the 23-year-old. "Our opponents were quite strong, but we did beat them. I am so happy now."

The Japanese team trailed the Chinese swimmers throughout the race, failed to outplace them at last.

"Chinese swimmers performed better than us and we have to accept the reality," said Uchida Sho. "We will have a meeting when we back to the Athletes' Village to discuss how to improve."

Park Tae Hwan, Olympic champion in the 400m freestyle in Beijing, said the South Korean team were satisfied with the result.

"We did our best and there was no regret." He said. "We are happy to take the bronze in the relay."

China win men's 4x200m freestyle relay for 1st time at Asian Games

 

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The 16th Asian Games

Rank Country/Region Gold Silver Bronze

1 China 54 20 19
2 Korea 18 14 18
3 Japan 13 25 23
4 Chinese Taipei 2 3 9
5 China Hong Kong 2 3 2

 

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Teng Haibin wins China's 9th straight Men's All-Around title in Asiad Gymnastics - People's Daily Online November 16, 2010

Asiad Gold medalist Teng Haibin of China (middle) shows his medal at the awarding ceremony.
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Host gymnast Teng Haibin won a 9th straight Asiad Men's All-Around title for China on Monday.

The 25-year-old veteran, keyman in China's Olympic fiasco in 2004, accumulated 91.100 points on all six apparatuses to edge his compatriot Lü Bo by 1.250. The bronze medal went to Japanese Hisashi Mizutori in 89.700.

After a six-year wait, Teng returned to light at the last month's world championship in Rotterdam where he also had a faulty 11th-place performance in All-Around. While doubts resurfaced that the Athens ghosts was still haunting him, he proved himself with almost flawless routines on home turf.

Teng topped the fields on Parallel Bars and Vault, on which he won an Olympic gold in 2004. He is also a favourite for the Vault title on Tuesday.

Lv and Mizutori, 30, were both good but the lack of steadiness and small errors made their maneuvers secondary to Teng.

Kim Soo Myun from South Korea placed third after four exercises but a blunder on Parallel Bars cost him a podium finish.

Takuya Nakase, pre-match title-contender, made mistakes again as he did in qualifying. A fall off the Pommel Horse virtually denied him a medal although he later grabbed a best-of-day score of 16.000 on Vault.

Source: Xinhua

 

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