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Day 5 Round-up: World best in Swimming, Doping Cheat Mark Day 5 at National Games |
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The Shanghai women's swimming team set a world best time this year in 4x200 meters freestyle relay while China's star male diver Xiong Ni bid farewell to the diving well with one more title at China's ninth national games in Guangzhou on Friday.
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The Shanghai women's swimming team set a world best time this year in 4x200 meters freestyle relay while China's star male diver Xiong Ni bid farewell to the diving well with one more title at China's ninth national games in Guangzhou on Friday.
But the day was marred by one more positive doping test and four athletes were advised to leave the event, for abnormal results of their earlier blood tests.
The Shanghai quartet, consisting of 200m freestyle bronze medalist Pang Jiaying and three other finalists of the earlier event here, clocked a world best time this year of seven minutes 56.52 seconds, which bettered the Asian mark of 7:57.96 held by a Chinese team.
Zhejiang came second 7:59.90 and Chinese Army third in 8:01.32.
In other swimming finals, Liu Yin of Shandong won the women's 200m butterfly in 2:08.66, edging veteran Chen Yan, double gold- medalist here for the 400m and 200m individual medleys.
Chen Zuo claimed Beijing's first gold by winning the men's 100m freestyle in 50.92 seconds and Cheng Hao of the Chinese Army took the men's 200m breaststroke in 2:17.17.
Xiong, one of the world's best male divers with such honor as two Olympic gold medals from Sydney, won the three-meter springboard title with 732.79 points. His sixth and final dive, an inward three and a half somersault in a tuck position, earned him 77.52 points.
"This is my last dive of my competitive career," he announced after the victory.
Cai Yalin from Hebei, Olympic champion of the men's 10 meters air rifle in the Sydney Games, failed to make the final in the men 's 50m small-bore free rifle, finishing a lowly 20th in the qualification rounds.
As the top final qualifier with 1,144 points, up-and-coming Chinese Army shooter Wang Weiyi scored a poor 7.7 points on the final shot, which, however, was enough to bring him up atop others for the title with total of 1,264 points. Zhejiang's Jiang Haojun and Heilongjiang's Shan Zhengdogn finished second and third, with 1,255.7 and 1,254.2, respectively.
Former Olympic judo champion Sun Fuming from Liaoning, 27, took the over 78kg category title, followed by Dong Wen of Tianjin and Gansu's Jia Zueying.
Among three other judo finals, Liaoning's Li Yanfu won the 78kg title, while Olympic champion Tang Ling of Sichuan Province was ranked a disappointed eighth and last.
Chinese newly-crowned gymnast world champion Feng Jing was upset in the men's individual all-around contest at the games, finishing only fourth.
Olympic champion in Sydney Yang Wei took the gold with an combined score of 57.812 points.
Making his world championships debut in this year's event last month in Ghent, Belgium, Feng, 16, shocked the world by a surprise triumph for the men's all-round title.
Yang who represented his native Hunan Province, a gymnastics powerhouse in the country, took the title with an accumulated score of 57.812 points, in the final which featured nine reigning and former world champions.
The games organizers announced that another athlete had been kicked out of the quadrennial national event. Liu Xia from Shandong, a woman weightlifter and silver-medalist of the earlier 63kg event, was disqualified for failing a doping test. Her result was annulled and the medal withdrawn.
Liu faces further disciplinary actions from the sport's national governing body the Chinese Weightlifting Association.
It was also announced that four other athletes had been noticed of abnormal results of their earlier blood tests here. The four had been asked to quit the games, for protecting their health. Of them were a male swimmer, one female and two male athletes for track and field events.
Blood tests were introduced for the first time in the national games history.
After anouncing the decision, Shi Kangcheng, an official with the anti-doping office of the Chinese Olympic Committee said that a total of 468 urine tests and 209 blood tests had been done so far for this year's national games.
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