Chinese Meng Guanliang won the gold medal of canoeing in 2002 Asian Games on Thursday, winning in the men's single Canadian 1,000 meters event.
Meng covered the distance with a winning time of three minutes 58.748 seconds. Nurmaganbetov Kaisar of Kazakhstan took the silvermedal with four minutes 0.452 seconds.
Kovalenko Dmitriy of Uzberkistan placed third with three minutes 08.948 seconds.