Korean go has helped Korean athletes to back-to-back gold medals at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games. The men’s team of Shin Shin-seo, Shin Min-joon, Park Jung-hwan, Kim Myung-hoon and Byun Sang-il defeated China 4-1 in the men’s team final on Wednesday at the Chinese Origin Bunyuan in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Shin Shin-seo, Shin Min-joon, Park Jung-hwan, Kim Myung-hoon and Byun Sang-il took black against Li Qin-cheng (ranked 16th in China) and lost by seven and a half moves in 295 moves, but Shin Shin-seo, Shin Min-joon, Park Jung-hwan and Kim Myung-hoon won the next four games to take the white flag for China .Korean go had hoped to win three gold medals at the Asian Games, the first in 13 years since Guangzhou 2010.However, they only managed bronze in the men’s individual event (Shin Shin-seo) and silver in the women’s team event, before winning the coveted gold in the final men’s team event .The gold medal in the men’s team event marked Korea’s 10th consecutive gold medal on the 24th, when the medal race began in earnest after the tournament opened on the 23rd.The women’s team lost 1-2 to China in the team final .The team had defeated China 2-1 in the preliminary round, but on this day, the trusted Choi Jeong crumbled and Kim Eun-ji lost a close game, handing the title to the Chinese early. South Korean women’s archers secured gold and silver medals in the recurve individual event. The women’s team’s ‘youngest ace’, Lim Im-hyun (Korea Gymnastics), defeated China’s Li Zhaoman 6-5 (28-29 30-27 29-29 27-27 28-28 <10-9>) in a shoot-off in the individual semifinals to reach the final. Three-time Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion An An (Gwangju Women’s University) then turned the gold medal match into a “house party” with a 7-3 (30-30 28-25 28-28 28-28 30-25) victory over China’s Hai Ligan. The two will meet for the gold medal at the same venue on Sunday at 11:50 a.m. KST. While Im is a rising star at 20 years old who finished first in this year’s national team trials, Ansan is a proven shrine to the record for most gold medals won by a South Korean athlete in a single Summer Olympics. South Korea secured its first women’s individual gold medal at an Asian Games in nine years when Jung Da-somi (Hyundai Department Store) won in Incheon in 2014.Lee Woo-seok (Kolon) lost to China’s Qi Xiangxiu 5-6 (28-28 28-29 29-26 30-27 27-28 <9-10>) in the semifinals of the men’s individual event in a shoot-off, forcing a bronze medal match .For the fifth consecutive time, Korean men’s archers failed to achieve their goal of winning an individual gold medal. Women’s handball also secured a silver medal after defeating China 30-23 in the final. The women’s handball team will try to win their third consecutive title against Japan .Recent battles between Korea and Japan have been fierce. In the final of the Asian Championships in Seoul last December, Korea defeated Japan 34-29 in overtime, and in the final of the Asian Qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Japan in August this year, Korea won 25-24.The final match between Korea and Japan will be played at 6 p.m. on Friday. The men’s and women’s canoe sprint teams won silver in the side-by-side kayak four 500 meters. The men’s team of Cho Kwang-hee, Cho Hyun-hee (Ulsan Metropolitan City), Jang Sang-won (Incheon Metropolitan City), and Jung Joo-hwan (National Sports Promotion Organization) clocked 1:25.006 in the final to finish second out of nine teams. Cho Kwang-hee took home two silver medals after winning the 500-meter two-person kayak event the day before. Choi Ran-Ha-lin-Han Sol (Buyeo County Government) and Cho Shin-young (Daejeon Metropolitan Sports Association) also won silver in the women’s four kayak 500 meters with a time of 1:42.870. The Korean baseball team swept Thailand 17-0 to finish second in their group and advance to the Super Round .The Korean men’s basketball team lost 70-84 to China in the quarterfinals, failing to reach the quarterfinals for the first time in 17 years since the 2006 Doha Games. The women’s basketball team lost 58-81 to Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Japan in the semifinals, setting up a bronze medal game on Friday at 5 p.m. in the second North-South matchup of the tournament. The South Korean men’s 400-meter relay team of Lee Jung-tae (Anyang City Hall), Kim Kook-young (Gwangju Metropolitan Government), Lee Jae-sung (Korea Gymnastics Federation) and Ko Seung-hwan (Gwangju Metropolitan Government) won bronze in the final with a South Korean record time of 38.74 seconds, marking the first medal in the event in 37 years since the 1986 Seoul Games (bronze).Men’s diving’s Lee Jae-kyung (Gwangju Metropolitan Sports Federation) finished third in the 3-meter springboard final with a total of 426.20 points from the first through sixth dives. Lee, a first-time Asian Games competitor, won back-to-back silver medals in the men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard with Woo Haram (Korea Sports Promotion Organization) and the men’s synchronized 10-meter platform with Kim Young-nam (Jeju Provincial Office), before adding an individual medal .Korea is third in the medal 카지노사이트킹 standings with 32 gold, 42 silver and 65 bronze medals, one behind Japan.

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