Taiwan clinch four more medals in Asian Games

Lin Chung-wei yesterday won bronze in the men’s 400m hurdles at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan, one of four bronze medals Taiwan collected during the day, while the Olympic champion boxer Lin Yu-ting guaranteed herself at least a bronze medal.

Lin Chung-wei’s finish gave Taiwan a track and field medal for the second straight day, following Fu Chao-hsuan’s gold in the men’s high jump on Sunday.

Lin Chung-wei entered the final with a time of 49.10 seconds, the second-fastest time in the heats. He stayed among the leaders and was level for second after clearing the last hurdle, before finishing third in a personal-best 48.74 seconds.

Qatar’s Bassem Hemeida won in 47.82 seconds, and Japan’s Taiju Goto took silver with a personal-best 47.93. Taiwan’s Chen Jian-rong placed fourth, also setting a personal best of 49.25 seconds.

Lin Chung-wei’s previous best was 48.77 seconds, set at a meet in Japan in May.

Taiwan’s other bronzes came in badminton mixed doubles, table tennis men’s singles and the women’s 25m pistol team event.

Photo courtesy of the Taiwanese delegation

Badminton pair Ye Hong-wei and Nicole Gonzales Chan lost their semi-final to China’s Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin 21-13, 21-9, forcing them to settle for a bronze medal, Taiwan’s first Asian Games mixed doubles badminton medal since 2010.

In table tennis, Lin Yun-ju won men’s singles bronze after losing a semi-final match that went the maximum seven games to China’s Lin Shidong, 10-12, 9-11, 11-8, 11-9, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9.

Shooters Cheng Yen-ching, Tien Chia-chen and Chen Yu-ju combined for 1,734 points to place third in the women’s 25m pistol team event, behind China and South Korea.

Lin Yu-ting defeated North Korea’s Won Un-gyong 4-1 in the women’s 60kg class to reach the semi-finals, as she chases a second Asian Games gold

As of last night, Taiwan had won three golds, seven silvers and 23 bronzes.

Japan has been starved of swimming success in recent times but with the Olympics two years away junk food-loving teenager Shin Ohashi has emerged as their next big hope.
The 17-year-old, who stands just 169cm, has posted the two fastest 200m breaststroke times in the world this year and is aiming for the world record at this year’s Asian Games.
Earlier this year he came within almost a second of the 2:05.48 record held by China’s Qin Haiyang.
Ohashi has already won gold at the Asian Games in the 100m breaststroke after a dead heat with China’s Dong Zhihao, beating Qin into third

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has found itself divided ahead of their two Nations League clashes with Israel, with the players disagreeing over whether to boycott the first game today and goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu withdrawing from the squad. After hours of fraught meetings among the players and occasionally involving coaches and officials, FAI chief executive officer David Courell said at a news conference that had been delayed by several hours that a “significant majority” of the squad had agreed to play the game in Hungary, but it was far from a unanimous decision.

The handful of Irish journalists present questioned Courell

THREE BRONZES: Martial artists dominated Taiwan’s gains for Tuesday, while the baseball team delivered Thailand a thunderous 15-0 shellacking that morning Taiwanese athletes at the Asian Games collected another three bronze medals yesterday, bringing their medals to nine, leaving them in 10th place overall as of yesterday evening, trailing Uzbekistan and leading Iran. Taiwan’s baseball team roared back from a 5-0 defeat by South Korea on Monday to squash Thailand 15-0 as they head into their game today against Hong Kong at 6:30pm at the Games in Japan.

KARATE The women’s team kata squad and men’s kumite competitor Chung Meng-yu won bronze medals yesterday. The 34-year-old Chien Hui-hsuan, who won bronze in the women’s individual kata event on Sunday, was joined by

MORE MEDALS: Taiwan’s men’s table tennis team added a bronze to the nation’s medal haul, while the women’s basketball team advanced to the semi-finals Taiwan yesterday secured their first e-sports medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, claiming bronze in the Naraka: Bladepoint tournament after falling 0-3 to China in the semi-finals. The Taiwanese squad, comprising Liu Tang-shiun, Chen Shang-yi, Cheng Hsu-yu, Yen Kai-en and Yeh Chih-yu, had already secured a place on the podium when they advanced to the final four as the runners-up in their preliminary group.

The bronze is first e-sports medal Taiwan has won at this year’s Asian Games. Naraka: Bladepoint is a game in which the players fight each other to be the last one standing. The game incorporates martial arts-inspired melee combat. TABLE