1-15 December 2006
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3 December 2006 - Day 3
Water feeling: Park Tae Hwan of Korea celebrates after breaking his own Asian Record in the 200m freestyle
Firsts for eight as records tumble
On the second day of competition at the 15th Asian Games there was action in 22 sports, with 24 gold medals available in nine finals.
These medals were spread among eight countries and regions, with Mongolia, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait and Hong Kong, China claiming their first golds at Doha 2006.
Three of these came in shooting with Kuwait winning the men’s team trap event and taking gold and bronze in the individual discipline.
Kazakhstan claimed the other in the men’s 50m rifle prone team event and then saw Vladislav Polyakov win the first ever men’s 50m breaststroke title – only his country’s second gold medal in the pool in Asian Games history.
Mongolia’s Nyamkhuu Damdinsuren won gold in the men’s -81kg judo, improving on his bronze medal in Busan four years ago, while Esther Cheah emerged victorious in the bowling women’s singles.
The other first came in cycling with Wong Kam Po’s victory for Hong Kong, China in the men’s road race.
Water feeling: Park Tae Hwan of Korea celebrates after breaking his own Asian Record in the 200m freestyleOn the second day of competition at the 15th Asian Games there was action in 22 sports, with 24 gold medals available in nine finals.
These medals were spread among eight countries and regions, with Mongolia, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait and Hong Kong, China claiming their first golds at Doha 2006.
Three of these came in shooting with Kuwait winning the men’s team trap event and taking gold and bronze in the individual discipline.
Kazakhstan claimed the other in the men’s 50m rifle prone team event and then saw Vladislav Polyakov win the first ever men’s 50m breaststroke title – only his country’s second gold medal in the pool in Asian Games history.
Mongolia’s Nyamkhuu Damdinsuren won gold in the men’s -81kg judo, improving on his bronze medal in Busan four years ago, while Esther Cheah emerged victorious in the bowling women’s singles.
The other first came in cycling with Wong Kam Po’s victory for Hong Kong, China in the men’s road race.
China though continue to lead the table after picking up 13 gold medals – to take their tally to 29 among a total of 47 medals – across six different sports.
Their weightlifters continued to dominate, completing another clean sweep of the three medals on offer with Chen Yanqing the star of the day after setting five world records in winning the women’s 58kg class.
The Chinese won both the men’s and women’s table tennis team titles, in addition to adding the women’s team gold in artistic gymnastics to the men’s honour they won on the opening day of competition.
In the pool though China and Japan’s golden duopoly ended when Korean teenage sensation Park Tae Hwan broke his own Asian record to win the men’s 200m freestyle.
This was the only Asian record of the night, although Takashi Yamamoto of Japan wrote his name into the history books as the first male swimmer to win three consecutive Asian Games gold medals in the same event with his victory in the 100m butterfly.
Japan created another piece of history with their defeat of Chinese Taipei in the men’s soft tennis team event, the gold medal being the 3000th won in the Asian Games since they were held in New Delhi, India in 1951.
More records though are sure to be broken and milestones reached in the days to come.
Their weightlifters continued to dominate, completing another clean sweep of the three medals on offer with Chen Yanqing the star of the day after setting five world records in winning the women’s 58kg class.
The Chinese won both the men’s and women’s table tennis team titles, in addition to adding the women’s team gold in artistic gymnastics to the men’s honour they won on the opening day of competition.
In the pool though China and Japan’s golden duopoly ended when Korean teenage sensation Park Tae Hwan broke his own Asian record to win the men’s 200m freestyle.
This was the only Asian record of the night, although Takashi Yamamoto of Japan wrote his name into the history books as the first male swimmer to win three consecutive Asian Games gold medals in the same event with his victory in the 100m butterfly.
Japan created another piece of history with their defeat of Chinese Taipei in the men’s soft tennis team event, the gold medal being the 3000th won in the Asian Games since they were held in New Delhi, India in 1951.
More records though are sure to be broken and milestones reached in the days to come.
Teenage star Park Tae Hwan powered down the final length to win Korea’s first swimming gold of the ....
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Chen Yanqing of China came out of retirement to set five world weightlifting records at the 15th ....
Rising Kuwaiti shooting star Naser Meqlad won his first major international title and gold medal in ....
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I am getting married after these Games and wanted to give a gold medal as a present to my fiancée
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