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China Dominates Friday's Women's Swimming at Asiad
Chinese dominated Friday's women's swimming by taking all the three gold medals at the East Asian Games.
Chinese swimmers won their third relay title, taking the 4x100 meters medley relay. Earlier on the day, they won the 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays.
The Chinese quartet clocked four minutes 4.42 seconds for the medley relay title, followed by South Korea in 4:13.43 and Hong Kong, China in 4:22.07.
The Japanese team touched home after China but was disqualified due to false start.
Qi Hui, who won the earlier women's 200m backstroke event, took her second gold in the 200m individual medley. She was timed at 2: 13.09, followed by two Japanese tomoko Hagiwara and Maki Mita in the second and third places respectively.
Chen Hua also added one gold to China's tally as she beat a strong challenge from Sachiko Yamada of Japan to touch home at 8: 32.61 in the women's 800m freestyle.
Yamada finished second at 8:35.45, followed by Zhang Yan of Japan in the third place at 8:41.02.
Japan won two gold medals in the men's events as Takashi Yamamoto triumphed in the 200m butterfly and Atsushi Nishikori won the 100m backstroke.
Yamamoto was timed at 1:57.45, followed by Xie Xueng of China and Yu Geong-Nam of South korea in the second and third places.
Nishikori clocked a winning time of 55.70 seconds in the 100m backstroke. The silver and bronze medals were taken by Ouyang Kunpeng and Yu Rui of China.
The other gold medal of the day was taken by South Korean Kim Min-Suk, who outsprinted his Japanese and Chinese opponents for the title of the men's 50m freestyle.
Kim Min-Suk was timed at 22.82, followed by Tomohiro Yamanoi of Japan at 23.05 and Jiang Chengji of China at 23.30.
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