CHINA’S SWIMMER ZHANG YUFEI WINS 6 MEDALS, PAN ZHANLIAN WINS 7

The Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, which kicked off on March 23, is halfway through its first day of competition, and there is no shortage of multiple gold medal winners .Through 29 days of competition, the most decorated swimmer is Zhang Yufei (China).Zhang swept the women’s 50-meter, 100-meter, and 200-meter butterfly events, as well as the 50-meter freestyle, 400-meter freestyle relay, and mixed 400-meter medley relay for a total of six medals. Three of the five gold medals came in swimming .Li Bingze, Qin Haiyang and Xu Zhai (all of China) followed Zhang Yufei with five gold medals apiece .Li Bingze won a silver in the women’s 200-meter freestyle and Qin Haiyang added a silver in the men’s 200-meter individual medley to bring her medal tally to six. Outside of China, Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Province) won the most gold medals with a trio of victories in the men’s 400-meter freestyle, 800-meter freestyle and 800-meter freestyle relay .He is the only non-Chinese athlete to win three gold medals .The triple medal wins by gymnast Zhang Boheng and shooter Huang Yueting (both of China) are the most by a non-swimmer to date .In terms of overall medals, Chinese swimmer Fan Zhanle leads the way with seven. Fan Zhanle won three gold, three silver, and one bronze medals at the Games, totaling seven medals .Six other swimmers have won six medals through 29 days, including Hwang Sun-woo (Gangwon Province).Hwang won two golds, two silvers and two bronzes after winning the 200-meter freestyle and 800-meter freestyle relay. His most recent medals at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games came in swimming .RIKAKO IKE (JPN) became the most decorated and most decorated athlete with six gold and two silver medals .In Incheon 2014, Korea’s bowler Lee Na-young won four medals, along with Hagino Kosuke (JPN), who was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP), gymnastics’ Yao Jinnan, and swimming’s Sun Du and Ning Zetao (both of China).The record for most gold medals at a single Asian Games is seven, set by North Korean shooting legend Seo Gil San in New Delhi in 1982.Zhang Yufei could have won seven if China had not been disqualified in the 400-meter medley relay on Monday. Zhang Yufei was only scheduled to compete in the evening final, but the Chinese team was disqualified in the morning heats. Of the six previous MVPs of the Summer Asian Games, which was established in 1998, four have been 스포츠토토존 swimmers, including Park Tae-hwan at Doha 2006. Hagino and Ikue took home the honor at the last two editions.

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