Chinese Sun Collects Women's 10,000m Gold in Expectation

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Chinese Sun Collects Women's 10,000m Gold in Expectation

Chinese young athlete Sun Yingjie, 23,ran alone in the lead from the 4,000 meters and eased toward the finish line to take the women's 10,000m gold at the Busan Asian Games on Tuesday afternoon.

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Chinese young athlete Sun Yingjie, 23,ran alone in the lead from the 4,000 meters and eased toward the finish line to take the women's 10,000m gold at the Busan Asian Games on Tuesday afternoon.

Sun also set the new Asiad record of the event in 30 minutes and 28.26 seconds, and improved her own best result of 31:49.47.

Kayoko Fukushi from Japan, who led the first 4,000 meters, snatched the silver in 30:51.81, while another Chinese runner XingHuina got the bronze in 31:42.58.

Sun said after the race,"I am very much confident in winning this title. I even have the strength to break the Asian and world record of 29:31.78 set by my compatriot Wang Junxia in Beijing in 1993."

"But in a bid to guarantee the gold medal, I adopted the tactics of following the leader in the first half. Otherwise, I could run fast from the very beginning," She said in a smile.

Sun's coach Wang Dexian attributed Sun's success today to the scientific and hard trainings. "Since the Sydney Olympics where Sun was empty-handed, she became more powerful and mature in the race. I expect her to break the world record before the 2004 Athens Olympic Games."

Sun's gold was the third title collected by the Chinese Asiad athletic team. Wang Qingqing had fought hard to grab the gold of the women's 20km walk on Monday and Shen Shengfei beat strong Indian opponents to clinch the women's heptathlon gold on Tuesday afternoon.

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