HIROSHIMA. Oct 9: China's women, complete champions of the swimming pool, started their assault in track and field Sunday As Zhong Huandi won the marathon by nearly seven minutes — over another Chinese runner, reports AP.

In total medals. China lead with 140 to 107 for Japan and 81 for South Korea. Kazakhstan had 33.

in swimming, which ended Saturday, the Chinese women were 15-for-15, with one world record. They also were

2.37:03. collapsed after the finish and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, but appeared later at a news conference.

Ip the men's marathon. Hwang seized the lead from Hayata with about eight kilo-

South Korea s Hwang Young Jo. the 1992 Olympic champion, won the men's marathon by 44 seconds, but Japan's Toshiyuki Hayata pre vented Korean 1-2 sweep

Uzbekistan. Mongolia and Indonesia won their first golds of the Games — Uzbekistan in canoeing. Mongolia in wrestling and Indonesia in badminton.

With China far ahead in the gold race, Hwang helped keep South Korea just ahead of archrival Japan in the battle for second.

Nje South Koreans picked up seven golds for the day, including two In their native fighting sport-of taekwondo. They also had one each In bowling, badminton, archery and wrestling.

Japan was held to six — two each in golf and ^nchronized swimming and one each in bowling and equestrian jumping.

China boosted its gold total to 73 by winning five of the day's seven canoeing races, capturing three shooting titles and winning in fencing, table tennis and the women's marathon.

South Korea had 31. Japan 28. Kazakhstan nine, and Taiwan and Iran five each.

Kazakhstan added five golds Sunday with two weightlifting titles and victories in canoeing. lO^cilometre team time trial • cwling and shooting. Taiwan won two in golf and one in bowling. Iran won three wrestling titles and a gold in taekwondo. Kuwait also won in taekwondo, and Malaysia won a bowling gold.

'expected to dominate track and field competition.

Zhong, marathon silver medalist in last year's World Championships, began pulling away in the second half of Sunday's race a nd finished in 2 hours, 29 minutes. 32 seconds. Teammate Zhang Llrong. who was third in the 1993 World Cup. passed Japan's Noboku Fujimura in the last kilometre and finished second ■ in 2.36:27. Fujimura third in

metres (5 miles) remaining and finished in 2.11:13. Hayata was 44 seconds behind in 2.11:57. South Korean Kim Jae-Ryong. silver medalist in last year's Boston Marathon, crossed the finish line in Hiroshimas Peace Park in 2.13:12.

The only breaks in China's domination of 500-metre canoeing races Sunday came when Ivan Kireev of Uzbekistan won in the men's singles kavak

race and Kazakhstan won in the two-man canoe race. China took the men s pairs and four-man kayak and one-man canoes races, and the women's singles and pairs kayak events.

After sweeping all three medals in the women's event. South Korea placed 1-2 in meti s archery. Park Kyong-Mo beat Chung Jae-Hun 116-114 for the gold, while teammate Han Seung-Hoon lost 115-109 to Taiwan's Wu Tsung-Yi for the bronze.

The South Koreans also won the five-man team bowling with a Games record 6.029. with the Philippines second with 6.012. But Japan s Kengo Tagata, already a gold medalist in the men's doubles and trios bowling, took the all-events gold with 5.036.

Malaysia's Shalin Zulkifli won the women's all events with a Games record of 5.016, but Taiwan took the five-woman team title with a Games record 5.831.

In its native fighting sport of taekwondo. South Korea ended up with four golds from eight weight classes. It didn't enter competitors in the other four. South Korea's winners Sunday were Jung Kwang-Chae at welterweight and Kirn Je-Jyoung at heavyweight Iran's Faribroz Askari won at light weight and Kuwait's Hameed Hasan at middleweight.

South Korea's one freestyle wrestling winner was Kim Tae-Woo at 100 kilograms, while Iran had golds from Nader Rahmati at 48 kilograms. All Akbarnejad at 68 and Amir Reza Khadem at 82. Mongolia s Tserenbaatar Tsogtbavar won at 57.

In badminton Indonesia and South Korea traded victories. South Korea beat the Indonesians 4 1 for the women's team gold, but Indonesia gained revenge with a 5-0 shutout of the Koreans In men's team play

Table tennis power China swept to a 3 1 victory over South Korea for the men s team gold in that sport

The Chinese aw ;1 . South Koreans 9 7 lor w men's sabre team iencuig ucid medal.

Japan won both the solo and duet synchronized swim ming titles. Solo winner Fum iko Okuno teamed with Miya Tachibana in the gold medal duet.

Japan s Kaname Yokoo won the men's golf with a 12-un der-par 276, nine shots ahead of China s Zhang Lianwel and helped his nation take the team title with a total of 864 Taiwan was second with 866

Taiwan took the womens individual and learn titles Huang Yu-Chen also had a nine-shot margin, shooting a 2-under-par 286 while South Korea s Kang Soo-Yun shot 295 and teammate Song 588.

Japan's Konoshin Kuwahara won in junipoff with teammate Ryuzo Okuno in the equestrian jumping competition, where officials had a scare when Princess Haya of Jordan fell from her horse when It missed a jump But doctors said the 20-year old princess. daughter of King Hussein, was not sen ously hurt.

China took both the Indi . vidua) and Vam titles In women s air pistol shooting Fan Xiaoping was the Individual gold medalist

In men's rapid fire pistol competition. Kazakhstan s Vladimir won the Individual ti tie but China was the team champion

Kazakhstan s weightlifting winners were Andrei Makarov at 91 kilograms and Serguei Kopytov at 99