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S. Korea wins gold in women's team pursuit track cycling
South Korea won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit track cycling event at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday.The team of Na Ah-reum, Kim You-ri, Kim Hyun-ji and Lee Ju-mi topped the competition at Jakarta International Velodrome in Jakarta after edging China in the final with an Asian Games record time of 4 minutes, 23.652 seconds. The previous Games record was 4:24.796, set by South Koreans on Monday in the qualifying stage. The race officials originally clocked South Korea's time at 4:31.2
Aug. 28, 2018
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Even with 3 gold medals, S. Korean cyclist hungry for more
South Korean cyclist Na Ah-reum said Tuesday she wants to make history by winning her fourth gold at the 18th Asian Games. Na claimed her third gold medal at Jakarta-Palembang 2018 after topping the women's team pursuit track cycling event at Jakarta International Velodrome in Jakarta, with her teammates Kim You-ri, Kim Hyun-ji and Lee Ju-mi. She had previously won the individual race and time trial gold medals on the road. The 28-year-old is now the first South Korean athlete to have three gold
Aug. 28, 2018
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S. Korea fall 2-1 to Japan in women's football semifinals
South Korea, using a 4-1-4-1 formation, surrendered an opening goal to Japan five minutes after kickoff. Yuika Sugasawa penetrated South Korea's backline and found the net with her right foot. South Korea had chances to get an equalizer later. Kim Hye-ri's strike hit the post in the 14th and Ji So-yun's promising effort in the 19th deflected off a Japanese defender to miss the target. (Yonhap)South Korea leveled the score in the 68th. Lee Min-a headed down a Moon Mi-ra cross from the flank to ev
Aug. 28, 2018
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S. Korean cyclist Lee Hye-jin wins silver in women's keirin
South Korean cyclist Lee Hye-rin won a silver medal in the women's keirin event at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday.Lee finished 0.024 second behind Lee Wai Sze of Hong Kong to take silver in the women's keirin at Jakarta International Velodrome in Jakarta. Zhong Tianshi of China earned bronze. South Korea's Cho Sun-young was fifth among six contestants.(Yonhap)This was Lee Hye-rin's second medal at Jakarta-Palembang 2018.She had grabbed bronze in the women's team sprint on Monday.Keirin is a cyc
Aug. 28, 2018
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Korea wins gold in men's team compound archery
JAKARTA -- South Korea won gold in men's team compound archery at the 18th Asian Games for the country's third archery title on Tuesday.In the very last archery event at GBK Archery Field, the team of Kim Jong-ho, Choi Yong-hee and Hong Sung-ho defeated India in a shoot-off for South Korea's fourth archery title in Jakarta.South Korea wrapped up the archery portion of the Asian Games with four gold, three silver and one bronze, well short of its goal of winning every gold. (Yonhap)Compound arche
Aug. 28, 2018
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Korea wins gold in women's team compound archery
JAKARTA -- South Korea won gold in women's team compound archery at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday for its second medal in the discipline.The team of So Chae-won, Choi Bo-min and Song Yun-soo defeated India 231-228 at GBK Archery Field.So won the mixed team silver medal with Kim Jong-ho on Monday.Kim and the men's compound team are in their own final later Tuesday. It will be the last archery event of the Asian Games here. (Yonhap)South Korea ended the recurve competition with gold medals in th
Aug. 28, 2018
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Kim Woo-jin wins gold in men's recurve archery
JAKARTA -- South Korean archer Kim Woo-jin won the men's individual recurve archery gold medal over teammate Lee Woo-seok at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday.Kim, world No. 1, defeated second-ranked Lee by the set score of 6-4 in the third all-South Korean final in Asiad men's recurve archery at GBK Archery Field.South Korea has now produced four straight Asiad men's recurve champions, and seven of the past eight. (Yonhap)This was only South Korea's second archery gold medal in Jakarta. The women
Aug. 28, 2018
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S. Korea grabs 4 medals in bowling
PALEMBANG, Indonesia -- South Korea picked up two silver and two bronze medals in bowling at the 18th Asian Games on Monday, adding to the two gold medals from the alley from last week.Park Jong-woo lost to Muhammad Rafiq Ismail of Malaysia 534-511 in the men‘s Masters final at Jakabaring Sports City Bowling Center. (Yonhap)Park beat his teammate Koo Seong-hoi in Round 1 to reach the gold medal match. Koo ended up with bronze.Earlier Monday, South Korea’s Lee Yeon-ji and Lee Na-young won silver
Aug. 27, 2018
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S. Korea reaches gold medal game in women's handball
JAKARTA -- South Korea reached the gold medal game in women's handball for the second straight Asian Games on Monday.South Korea routed Thailand 40-13 in the semifinals at GOR Popki Cibubur in Jakarta to secure at least a silver medal at the 18th Asiad.(Yonhap)In Thursday’s final, South Korea will face the winner of the other semifinal contest between China and Japan.South Korea is the defending women‘s champion and has won six of seven gold medals all-time at the Asian Games, having only missed
Aug. 27, 2018
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Korea grabs one gold, two silver medals in archery
JAKARTA -- South Korea collected one gold and two silver medals in team archery events at the 18th Asian Games on Monday, with one more day of archery left in Jakarta.South Korea had a team in each of the three gold medal matches at GBK Archery Field on Monday: the women's recurve team, the men's recurve team and the mixed team in compound.All three finals were against Chinese Taipei, and South Korea batted 1-for-3. (Yonhap)The lone gold came from the women's recurve team event, as the trio of C
Aug. 27, 2018
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Korea wins gold in women's recurve archery team event
JAKARTA -- South Korea captured gold in the women's recurve archery team event at the 18th Asian Games on Monday, extending its winning streak to six straight.The trio of Chang Hye-jin, Kang Chae-won and Lee Eun-gyeong defeated Chinese Taipei by the set score of 5-3 at GBK Archery Field.Team recurve matches use the set system, where each side receives two set points for winning a set of six arrows -- two arrows per archer. If two teams are tied in the set, they each get one point. The first team
Aug. 27, 2018
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Korea's Jung Hye-lim wins gold in women's 100m hurdles
JAKARTA -- South Korea's Jung Hye-lim won the gold medal in women's 100-meter hurdles at the 18th Asian Games on Sunday.Jung clocked 13.20 seconds to finish first among eight finalists at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Main Stadium in Jakarta.Emilia Nova of Indonesia took silver at 13.33, followed by Lui Lai Yiu of Hong Kong at 13.42. (Yonhap)This was South Korea's first Asiad gold in athletics in eight years. South Korea grabbed four athletics gold medals at Guangzhou 2010, but finished the last Asian
Aug. 27, 2018
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Chon Jong-won wins gold in men's sport climbing
PALEMBANG, (Yonhap) -- South Korean Chon Jong-won won gold in the men's combined sport climbing event at the 18th Asian Games on Sunday.South Korean sport climber Chon Jong-won celebrates after completing the bouldering portion of the men's combined event at the 18th Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia, on Sunday. (Yonhap)After the speed, bouldering and lead events, Chon had six total points at Jakabaring Sports City Sport Climbing.In the combined event, the climbers' ranking positions after spe
Aug. 26, 2018
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Coaches of unified Korean canoeing team hail athletes' grit for historic gold
PALEMBANG, (Yonhap) -- The coaches of the unified Korean canoeing team on Sunday cited athletes' grit and rigorous training for their success at the 18th Asian Games. The unified Korean canoeing team grabbed the gold medal in women's 500-meter dragon boat racing at the Asian Games at the Jakabaring Rowing & Canoeing Regatta Course in Palembang, Indonesia, the co-host city of the Asian Games with Jakarta. Unified Korean canoeing team coaches Kim Gwang-chol of North Korea (Left) and Kang Geun-yeon
Aug. 26, 2018
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N. Korea's sister power: Rim Jong-sim wins gold in women's 75kg weightlifting
JAKARTA, (Yonhap) -- It was older sister's turn.North Korea's Rim Jong-sim won a gold medal in dominant fashion in the women's 75-kilogram division weightlifting competition at the 18th Asian Games on Sunday, following her younger sister's victory the previous day. North Korea's Rim Jong-sim lifts a barbell in the women's 75-kilogram division weightlifting competition at the 18th Asian Games at Jakarta International Expo Hall A in Jakarta on Aug. 26, 2018. (Yonhap)Rim lifted a total of 263kg to
Aug. 26, 2018
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Unified Korean canoeing team wins gold in women's 500m dragon boat racing
PALEMBANG, (Yonhap) -- The unified Korean canoeing team continued its historic run at the 18th Asian Games as it grabbed the gold medal in women's 500-meter dragon boat racing on Sunday.The 16-member dragon boat racing team clocked 2 minutes, 24.788 seconds in the women's canoeing traditional boat race to finish first among six contestants at the Jakabaring Rowing & Canoeing Regatta Course in Palembang, Indonesia, the co-host city of the Asian Games with Jakarta. China won silver at 2:25.092, wh
Aug. 26, 2018
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S. Korea set to go for compound archery gold sweep
JAKARTA, (Yonhap) -- South Korea will go for a complete sweep of the gold medals in compound archery at the 18th Asian Games after its men's and women's teams reached their respective finals on Sunday.The men's team of Choi Yong-hee, Kim Jong-ho and Hong Sung-ho defeated Malaysia 235-229 in the semifinals at GBK Archery Field in Jakarta. South Korean compound archers celebrate their victory over Malaysia in the men's team semifinals at the 18th Asian Games at GBK Archery Field in Jakarta on Sund
Aug. 26, 2018
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Sung Ki-ra wins ju-jitsu gold medal
Sung Ki-ra won the gold medal in the women's ju-jitsu newaza event at the 18th Asian Games on Saturday.Sung defeated Tian En Constance Lien of Singapore 4-2 in the newaza women's under-62kg class at Jakarta Convention Center Assembly Hall, giving South Korea its first-ever medal in ju-jitsu.Ju-jitsu is being contested in the Asian Games for the first time here. (Yonhap)The 21-year-old, who topped the 2018 World Championships, showed her dominance by reaching the final without conceding a single
Aug. 26, 2018
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Unified Korean canoeing team wins historic medal in women's 200m dragon boat racing
The unified Korean canoeing team won a historic medal in women's 200-meter dragon boat racing at the 18th Asian Games on Saturday.The 12-member dragon boat racing team earned bronze in the women's canoeing traditional boat race after finishing third among six contestants at the Jakabaring Rowing & Canoeing Regatta Course in Palembang, Indonesia, the co-host city of the Asian Games with Jakarta, with a time of 56.851 seconds.China won gold at 56.161 while Indonesia took silver at 56.817. The unif
Aug. 25, 2018
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S. Korea beats N. Korea in women's archery team event
South Korea knocked North Korea out of the women's team recurve archery event at the 18th Asian Games on Saturday.Chang Hye-jin, Kang Chae-young and Lee Eun-gyeong of the South Korea defeated Kang Un-ju, Pak Hyang-sun and Ri Ji-hyang by the set score of 6-0 in the quarterfinals at GBK Archery Field in Jakarta.Team recurve matches use the set system, where each side receives two set points for winning a set of six arrows -- two arrows per archer. If two teams are tied in the set, they each get on
Aug. 25, 2018