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A day with good returns for Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia had a good day at the Hangzhou Asian Games, winning one gold and four bronze medals.

Day seven of the Asiad saw the women's squash team of Rachel Arnold, S. Sivasangari and Aifa Azman defeating Hong Kong 2-1 for gold.

Pandelela Rinong-Nur Dhabitah Sabri produced a bronze in the women's synchronised 10m platform. China's Quan Hongchan-Chen Yuxi and Japan's Matsuri Arai-Minami Itahashi took gold and silver respectively.

Malaysia got another bronze from diving through Syafiq Puteh and Ooi Tze Liang in the men's synchronised 10m platform. China's Yan Siyu-He Chao and South Korea's Yi Jaegyeong-Woo Haram finished first and second, respectively.

Malaysia also clinched two bronze medals in athletics.

Shereen Samson Vallabouy finished third in the women's 400m behind Bahrain's Oluwakemi Mujidat Adekoya and Salwa Eid Naser Naser.

Azeem Fahmi bagged bronze in the men's 100m with a time of 10.11s. China's Xie Zhenye (9.97) and Thailand's Puripol Boonson (10.02) finished first and second respectively.

With the five-medal addition, Malaysia moved up two spots to No. 12 in the medal tally with three gold, three silver and 12 bronze for a total of 18 medals.

RESULTS

3x3 BASKETBALL

Men's qualification to quarter-finals: Mongolia 16 Iran 15, Qatar 21 Japan 15, China 15 Taiwan 22, South Korea 19 Philippines 16.

Women's: South Korea 16 Japan 19 Mongolia 16 Thailand 13, Taiwan 21 India 10.

ATHLETICS

Men's 100m final: 1 Xie Zhenye (Chn) 9.97s, 2 Puripol Boonson (Tha) 10.02, 3 Muhammad Azeem Fahmi (Mas) 10.11;

400m: 1 Yousef Ahmed M Masrahi (Ksa) 45.55s, 2 Kentaro Sato (Jpn) 45.57, 3 Abbas Yusuf Abbas Ali (Brn) 45.65;

10000m: 1 Birhanu Yemataw Balew (Brn) 28:13.62s, 2 Kumar Kartik (Ind) 28:15.38, 3 Gulveer Singh (Ind) 28:17.21;

Hammer throw: 1 Wang Qi (Chn) 72.97m, 2 Ashraf Elseify (Qat) 72.42, 3 Sukhrob Khodjaev (Uzb)… 11 Jackie Wong (Mas) 62.79;

Pole vault: 1 Ernest John Obiena (Phi) 5.90m (GR), 2 Huang Bokai (Chn) 5.65, 3 Hussain Asim M Al Hizam (Ksa) 5.65.

Women's 100m: 1 Ge Manqi (Chn) 11.23s, 2 Veronica Shanti Pereira (Sin) 11.27, 3 Hajar Saad Saeed Saad Alkhaldi (Brn) 11.35;

400m: 1 Oluwakemi Mujidat Adekoya (Brn) 50.66s, 2 Salwa Eid Naser Naser (Brn) 50.92, 3 Shereen Samson Vallabouy 52.58.

AQUATICS - DIVING

Men's synchronised 10m platform final: 1 Yan Siyu-He Chao (Chn) 422.55pts, 2 Yi Jaegyeong-Woo Haram (Kor) 393.00, 3 Syafiq Puteh-Ooi Tze Liang (Mas) 380.22.

BADMINTON

Men's team semi-finals: Japan 1 China 3 (Kenta Nishimoto bt Shi Yuqi 10-21, 21-16, 21-14; Liang Weikeng-Wang Chang bt Yugo Kobayashi-Takuro Hoki 23-21, 25-23; Li Shifeng bt Kanta Tsuneyama 21-16, 21-10).

BASKETBALL

Men's preliminary Group B: China 95 Hong Kong 50, Taiwan 78, Mongolia 75;

C: Jordan 87 Philippines 62, Bahrain 76 Thailand 62.

ESPORTS

Dream Three Kingdoms: 1 China, 2 Hong Kong, 3 Thailand.

FOOTBALL

Women's quarter-finals: South Korea 1 North Korea 4, Japan 8 Philippines 1, China 4 Thailand 0.

HANDBALL

Men's main round Group I: Kuwait 25 South Korea 24.

Women's preliminary round Group B: China 25 Japan 26.

HOCKEY

Men's preliminary Pool B: Thailand 0 China 9.

SOFTBALL

Placement round 4: Japan 1 China 0.

TABLE TENNIS

Men's singles quarter-finals: Jang Woojin (Kor) bt Tomokazu Harimoto (Jpn) 8-11, 10-12, 8-11, 11-9, 19-17, 11-4, 11-8; Fan Zhendong (Chn) bt Chuang Chih-Yuan (Tpe) 11-7, 11-8, 11-1, 11-4.

Women's doubles: Jeon Jihee-Shin Yubin (Kor) bt Chen Szu-Yu-Huang Yi-Hua (Tpe) 9-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4; Sutirtha Mukherjee-Ayhika Mukherjee (Ind) bt Cheng Meng-Wang Yidi (Chn) 11-5, 11-5, 5-11, 11-9; Cha Suyong-Pak Sugyong (Prk) bt Doo Hoi Kem-Zhu Chengzhu (Hkg) 12-10, 8-11, 6-11, 11-6, 11-8.

VOLLEYBALL

Women's preliminary round 1 Pool B: Taiwan 3 Mongolia 0;

D: Kazakhstan 3 Afghanistan 0.

WATERPOLO

Women's round robin: Thailand 9 China 26.

WEIGHTLIFTING

Women's 55kg Group A final: 1 Kang Hyongyong (Prk) 233kg (WR/AR/GR), 2 Ri Suyon (Prk) 222, 3 Hou Zhihui (Chn) 210.

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