China’s Cui Chenxi celebrates after wining the gold medal for skateboarding girls’s road ultimate on the nineteenth Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photograph/Louise Delmotte)
HANGZHOU, China— She’s the youngest member of the almost 900-strong delegation from China within the Asian Video games, and the 13-year-old skateboarder is now going dwelling with a gold medal.
She’s additionally already serious about being a drive at subsequent yr’s Paris Olympics.
Cui Chenxi, from Shandong province, edged out 18-year-old teammate Zeng Wenhui for the gold on Wednesday in girls’s road skateboarding. Miyu Ito, a 16-year-old Japanese skateboarder, took bronze.
Cui’s gold was one in every of many for the host nation on Day 4 of the two-week occasion in Hangzhou, the place greater than 12,000 opponents from 45 international locations and territories in Asia are competing in 481 occasions.
In girls’s road skateboarding, every competitor did two runs after which 5 tips, with the very best scoring run being added to the 2 highest scoring tips for the ultimate outcome.
“My tactic was to be conservative on the primary run, to get some factors on the scoreboard, then make a push for it on the second run,” Cui stated.
The gambit paid off, as she scored considerably larger on her second run. That, mixed together with her first two tips, gained her the gold regardless that she missed the final three tips.
Wanting forward, Cui stated she’s now obtained her sights on the Olympics.
“First I’ll consider getting there, then I could make an enormous assault,” she stated.
Chinese language skater Zhang Jie took gold within the males’s road finals, with teammate Su Jianjun profitable bronze.
Indonesian competitor Sanggoe Darma Tanjung took silver and stated the competitors was extraordinarily robust.
“I can’t imagine I could make this podium,” he stated after getting his medal. “Everybody is sweet, wonderful.”
The Philippines’ Margielyn Didal, coming off a protracted layoff on account of harm, failed her title protection.
CRICKET RECORDS
Nepal’s cricket workforce trounced Mongolia in a preliminary-round match Wednesday, setting a number of information alongside the way in which to the 273-run win.
Nepal’s batters dominated Mongolia’s bowlers, going 314-3 in what was the primary time a workforce has scored greater than 300 within the 20-overs format. Mongolia scored 41-10, and Nepal’s margin of victory additionally set a document, surpassing the Czech Republic’s 208-run win in opposition to Panama in 2021.
Cricket was first integrated into the Asian Video games in 2010, and appears to be heading to the Olympic program quickly, probably within the 2028 Los Angeles Video games or the 2032 Brisbane Video games.
India’s girls’s cricket workforce took gold on Monday, defeating Sri Lanka.
In Nepal’s win over Mongolia, Nepal batter Dipendra Singh Airee wanted solely 9 balls to hit a 50, smashing the earlier document of 12 balls held collectively by India’s Yuvraj Singh and two others. He additionally set a document for the very best strike price, 520, with a knock of 52 off 10 balls.
Teammate Kushal Malla set one other milestone by reaching a century in 34 balls, one fewer than the earlier document.
Cricket powerhouses India and Pakistan are among the many event favorites, and will generate a large tv viewers in the event that they face each other within the males’s cricket ultimate on the Asian Video games on Oct. 7. That ultimate, nevertheless, could possibly be overshadowed by the beginning of the Cricket World Cup in India, which runs Oct. 5-Nov. 19.
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Indian shooter Sift Kaur Samra gained two medals, taking gold within the girls’s 50-meter rifle, three positions competitors, and silver within the workforce model of the identical occasion.
Within the particular person occasion, Zhang Qiongyue of China took silver and Ashi Chouksey of India took the bronze.
Chouksey missed the silver in her final shot.
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In girls’s workforce skeet capturing, Kazakhstan took gold, edging out China. Thailand gained the bronze.
