SILVER LINING: In addition to silver medals in karate, tennis, canoeing and weightlifting, the women’s and men’s teams advanced to the recurve finals tomorrow
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 26, 2018
By: Ian Kuo / Staff reporter, with CNA
Taiwan’s athletes yesterday added to the nation’s overall medal count at the Asian Games in
Taiwan’s Liu Cheng, center, shoots in their Asian Games men’s basketball Group C game against Qatar in Jakarta yesterday. Photo: AFP
Indonesia, but another gold proved elusive.
Wang Yi-ta received the silver medal in the men’s Kata after losing 5-0 in the final to Japan’s Kiyuna Ryo at the Jakarta Convention Center.
Wang reached the final after victories over Hong Kong’s Cheng Tsz Man Chris, South Korea’s Park Hee-jun and Macau’s Kuok Kin Hang earlier in the day, winning the bouts 4-1, 4-1 and 3-2 respectively.
In the women’s 69kg weightlifting, Hung Wan-ting won silver with a lift of 103kg and a clean and jerk of 130kg. Her 233kg total was enough to edge South Korea’s Mun Yu-ra on 231kg, but was no challenge for the 246kg of gold medalist Rim Un-sim of North Korea. [FULL STORY]
