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China sets another world mark in lifting

Xiong’s terrific treble
HIROSHIMA. Oct 4: Swimmer Xiong Guoming became a triple gold medalist Tuesday as China swept all of Tuesday's swimming, diving and weightlifting battles, sending its gold medal lead soaring in the Asian Games, reports AP.
Chinese broke world records In two more divisions of women's weightlifting, bringing their total to five in six events.
With victories in women’s team gymnastics and individual foil fencing too, the Chinese seized 12 of the 16 golds decided on the second full day of competition — missing only those in karate, a Japanese fighting sport in which it has no entries.
That gave them a total of 20. with Japan far back in second place at eight. Iran and Syria wrecked Japan's chances of a sweep in karate by winning two of the day's four events.
Japan also had hoped to win at least one of the day's swimming golds after its big-lead in morning qualifying for the men's 800-metre freestyle relay.
But China won that too, beating the Japanese by nearly a second In an Asian record time of 7 minutes. 26.28 seconds. Japan finished in 7:27.18 and South Korea took the bronze In 7:33.61.
Xiong anchored the relay team to victory after winning the gruelling men's 400-metre Individual medley on Tuesday and the 200 freestyle on Monday. t
In Tuesday's 400. he won in an Asian record 4:19.40, with Thailand's Ratapong Sirisanorit second in 4:20.03.
Although China's men had been in the shadow of the women's world championladen team. Jiang Chengji contributed to the day's shutout by edging Japan's Hajime Itoi 25.72 to 25.81 fn the 100-metre butterfly, setting a Games record.
The day's two women's races were Chinese 1-2 sweeps. both with Games records: Yuan Yuan and Daihong finished In 2:28.34 and 2:29.72 in the 200-metre breaststroke, and Lu Bin and Le Ying went 1:57.37 and 1:59.77 in the 200 freestyle.
The day's two diving events both were tight all-Chinese battles for cold and silver
On the men's 3-metre springboard. Wang Tlanllang edged teammate Yu Zhuo-cheng. the world champion, for the gold medal thanks to a high-scoring final dive.Wang finished with 709.41 points. Yu had 698.76 and Japan's Chimaki Yasuda was third with 649.53.
Chi Bin. silver medalist in the World Championships last month, had a narrower victory over 13-year-old teammate Wang Rui: 496.14 to 494.58 in the women's platform diving. Natalia Chikina won Kazakhstan's first Asian Gaines medal, a bronze, with 433.80.
China's world record-breakers In weightlifting Tuesday were Chen Xiaomin at 59 kilograms and Tang Welfang at 70 kilograms.
Chen, last year’s world champion at 54 kilograms, lifted a total of 220 kilograms (484 pounds), beating the record of 217.5 (478.5
pounds) set at the championships by teammate Sun Caiyan. Her total also was well above the world record of 200 (440 pounds) Chen had set in winning the 54-kilogram class last year. Her 54-kllogram division record, however, had fallen on Monday when teammate Zhang Juhua lifted 202.5 (445.5 pounds).
Tang's total of 230 (506 pounds) broke the world mark of 220 (484 pounds) set at the Championships last year by Bulgaria's Milena TTendafilova.
Thals came second to both record-breakers Tuesday. Khassaraporn Suta won the silver at 59 kilograms with a total of 207.5 (456.5 pounds). Wasana Putcharkarn was second at 70 kilograms with 220 (484 pounds).
Lei Li was China's other weightlifting gold medalist, winning in the 64-kilogram class with a total of 225 (495 pounds). Taiwan's Kuo Shu-fen was second with 210 (462 pounds).
Mo Huilan. dubbed "Mighty Miouse" by her teammates, led China to the women's team gymnastics gold, scoring a pair of 9.95's on the uneven bars and In her floor routine.
China finished with 194.375 points, Japan with 189.050 and South Korea with 184.400.
In women's individual foil fencing, China's Xiao Aihua defeated South Korea's Chang Mi-kyung In the final.
Japan had karate victories Tuesday from Shinichiro Yamamoto. who beat Vietnam’s Tran Van Thong 6-1 in the 6-kilogram class final, and Shizuo Shiina, who outpointed Iran's Saeed Ashtian 6-3 for the 75-kilogram division gold
But in the 65-kilogram class. Syria's Rafaat Salt! Krad beat Iran's Arash Javanshir for the gold. At 70 kilograms. Iran's Maziar Farid Khomami made up for that by defeating Kuwait’s Adel Al-Mefadi 4-3 for the title.
Japan had won all four events In the women's competition Monday, boosting hopes for a sweep in the sport that was developed by its people hundreds of years agn