TEAMWORK: While the women’s kabaddi team lost to India in the semi-finals, they will celebrate the nation’s first podium finish in the sport at the Asian Games
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 24, 2018
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter, with CNA
Taiwan yesterday snagged two gold medals in artistic gymnastics and
Taiwan’s Lee Chih-kai performs on the pommel horse in the Asian Games men’s individual artistic gymnastics finals in Jakarta yesterday. Photo: EPA-EFE
women’s weightlifting at the Asian Games in Indonesia.
In artistic gymnastics, Lee Chih-kai clinched a gold medal in the men’s pommel horse final with a score of 15.400, while Tang Chia-hung won silver in the men’s floor exercise with 14.425 points.
Chen Chih-yu later scored 14.600 in the men’s rings final to secure the bronze medal, while China’s Deng Shudi took gold with 14.750 and Japan’s Shogo Nonomura took silver with 14.625.
Taiwan’s second gold medal of the day was won by Kuo Hsing-chun in the women’s 58kg weightlifting event. [FULL STORY]
