Taiwanese golfer Pan Cheng-tsung (潘政琮) claimed the gold medal in the men’s individual competition at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, yesterday as Taiwan’s athletes added another six medals to their tally.
As well as the individual gold, Pan, who last year was ranked the No. 1 amateur golfer in the world by World Amateur Golf Ranking, also claimed gold in the team competition.
Taiwan’s Yu Chun-an (俞俊安) collected the bronze in the men’s individual and gold as part of the Taiwanese team, while there were also medals in archery, tennis and baseball.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
Pan carded a final-round 71 for a 17-under total of 271, two shots ahead of South Korea’s Kim Nam-hun, who fired a 68 to claim the silver.
Yu carded a 67 for a 12-under total of 276 to claim the bronze.
In the men’s team competition, Pan, Yu, Kao Teng (高藤) and Wang Wei-lun (王偉倫) won the gold medal with a total of 819, seven shots ahead of South Korea, who claimed the silver, and 14 shots ahead of Thailand, who won bronze.
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In archery, Taiwan’s Kuo Chang-wei (郭振維) won the bronze medal match of the recurve men’s individual competition, defeating Japan’s Hideki Kikuchi 111-107.
In the tennis, world No. 43 Lu Yen-hsun (盧彥勳) won his men’s singles semi-final against Yuichi Sugita, defeating the Japanese player 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7/5) in 2 hours, 1 minute at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts to set up a final against another Japanese player, world No. 167 Yoshihito Nishioka.
Lu had previously said that he would not compete in tomorrow’s final due to the threat of a three-year ATP Tour ban should he not register for the China Open in Beijing today, but he said yesterday that he was fully focused on the Asian Games as negotiations with the ATP Tour to try and work out a compromise continued.
There were mixed results for the Taiwanese pairings in the women’s doubles semi-finals, with Chan Chin-wei (詹謹偉) and Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇) defeating Indian duo Prarthana Gulabrao Thombare and Sania Mirza 7-6 (7/1), 2-6, 10-4 to make the final and claim at least a silver medal, while Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) and Chan Hao-ching (詹皓晴) had to settle for bronze after they were beaten 6-4, 6-4 by Thai pairing Luksika Kumkhum and Tamarine Tanasugarn.
In the mixed doubles semi-finals, Taiwanese duo Peng Hsien-yin (彭賢尹) and Chan Hao-ching guaranteed themselves at least silver by overcoming Japanese pairing Sugita and Shuko Aoyama 6-1, 7-5.
In the wrestling matchups, Taiwan’s Yu Ting (余庭) missed out on the chance of a medal in the women’s freestyle 75kg competition when she lost the bronze medal bout to South Korea’s Hwang Eun-ju.
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