Chinese race walker Qiyang Shijie participates in the 35km mixed team race walk event at the Hangzhou Asian Games on October 4, 2023 (Xinhua News Agency/Jiang Wenyao)
Bahrain’s Birhanu Yemataw Balew won his second Asian Games gold medal with a new record in the men’s 5000m race, while Qieyan Shijie led China to the gold medal in the 35km mixed team race walk.
HANGZHOU, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — Bahrain’s long-distance runner Birhanu Yematau Balew won the men’s 5,000 meters at the Hangzhou Asian Games in a new tournament record time, winning his second gold medal. China won the 35km racewalk mixed team event for the first time. on wednesday.
The 35km race walk mixed team event will have four athletes on each team, two men and two women, and the final result for each team will be calculated by summing the results of the best male and female athletes. .
Qieyang Shijie, Bai Xueying, He Xianghong and Wang Qin helped China win the gold medal in 5 hours 16 minutes 41 seconds. Japan came in second with a difference of five and a half minutes, followed by India with a time of 5 hours, 51 minutes and 14 seconds.
“I’m very happy with my performance. I was able to maintain my pace until the end, which was great,” he said, following his original top performance on Wednesday with the redistributed gold medal in the 20km race walk at the 2012 London Olympics. said Chiyang, who also received one. Two finishers had their medals stripped of their medals due to doping.
Bahrain’s Birhanu Yematau Balew celebrates winning gold in the men’s 5000m. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)
Following on from his victory in the 10,000m race four days earlier, Baleu set a new 5,000m Asian Games record in 13:17.40.
India’s Avinash Mukund Sable took second place with a time of 13:21.09, while Baleu’s compatriot Dawit Fikadu Admas won the bronze medal with a time of 13:25.63.
Bahrain also won the women’s 4x400m relay, setting a new Asian Games record with a time of 3:27.65. India came second with a time of 3 minutes 27.85 seconds and Sri Lanka came third with a time of 3 minutes 30.88 seconds.
In the men’s 4x400m relay, India won the gold medal with a time of 3 minutes 01.58 seconds, with Qatar and Sri Lanka finishing second and third respectively.
China’s Wang Chunyu celebrates winning bronze medal in women’s 800m. (Xinhua/Jianghan)
In the women’s 800m, Chinese runner Wang Chunyu was overtaken with 100 meters remaining and finished third behind Sri Lanka’s Tulsi Dissanayaka Mudiyanseraj and India’s Hamilan Bains.
In the women’s triple jump, junior world champion Sharifa Davronova (Uzbekistan) won with 14.09 meters, China’s Zeng Rui took silver with 13.92 meters, and Japan’s Mariko Morimoto took third place with 13.78 meters.
In the men’s high jump, Olympic champion Mutaz Barsim of Qatar cleared the bar with a jump of 2.35 meters, maintaining his lead in the event and equaling the record set at the 2014 Incheon Games.
South Korea’s Woo Sang-hyuk challenged Barshim with a height of 2.37 meters, but failed and finished with a silver medal at 2.33 meters. Japan’s Tomohiro Niino finished third with a season-best 2.29m.
Barsim said, “This is my third gold medal at the Asian Games. Although I couldn’t break the record, I have no regrets. I’m enjoying today’s competition.”
In the men’s javelin throw, India’s Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Kumar Jena dominated the gold and silver medals, while Japanese thrower Roderick Genki Dean won the bronze medal. ■