Taiwanese track and field athletes bagged another silver medal and five more bronze medals at the East Asian Games in Hong Kong yesterday, staying in fifth place on the medals table a day before the Games end.
In the men’s discus event, Taiwan’s Wang Yao-hui finished in second place with a throw of 55.18m with his last effort, while Chang Ming-huang won a bronze medal with a throw of 54.92m, his second attempt.
The gold medal went to Japan’s Shiro Kobayashi, who threw 55.98m.
Wang expressed disappointment over the result, saying it could have been very different had he not been faulted by a judge on his second throw, which he said would have been easily over 57m.
“I didn’t grab the chance to win the gold medal when I could. I need to adjust my technique because when I throw, the angle of elevation tends to be too big,” he said.
In the final of the men’s 100m, Taiwan’s Yi Wei-chen finished third in a time of 10.49 seconds. China’s Su Bingtian won the race in 10.33 seconds, while Japan’s Shintaro Kimura clocked 10.39 seconds to take silver.
PHOTO: REUTERS
In the women’s 400m hurdles, Taiwan’s Chang Ai-hua took a bronze medal, finishing in 1 minute, 3.57 seconds, while Japan’s Miyabi Tago and Kana Tsuru took gold and silver respectively.
In the men’s pole vault there was a bronze medal for Hsieh Chia-han, while Taiwan’s Ho Chin-ping also grabbed a bronze in the men’s 10,000m.
China is leading the medals table, followed by Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, unfancied Hong Kong shocked a young Japan side in the final of the soccer, winning 4-2 on penalties in front of a fanatical sell-out 40,000 crowd.
Defender Wong Chin Hung was the hero for Hong Kong, scoring the decisive penalty to send the home fans delirious after the game ended 1-1 after 120 minutes.
The Japanese, represented by their under-20 team, took the lead as early as the 22nd minute at a vociferous and partisan Hong Kong Stadium, defender Taisuke Muramatsu scoring unchallenged from close range.
Japan had the quality, but Hong Kong the spirit and the home support, and two minutes after halftime the East Asian Games hosts and surprise finalists were level, substitute striker Chan Siu Ki heading home from close range.
Chan, Hong Kong’s star player, was reportedly rushed back from training with English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur especially for the match, which neither team really deserved to win in normal time or the 30 minutes of extra-time.
Unheralded Hong Kong had disposed of North and South Korea on the way to their unexpected appearance in the final.
Earlier, in a game played in a strong spirit of camaraderie, South Korea beat neighbors North Korea 4-2 on penalties to take the bronze medal after the match had finished 1-1.
Keeper Kim Min-kyu was the hero for the South, saving two penalties, including the North’s fourth kick, which the referee ordered to be taken three times because Kim had come too far off his line.
South Korean striker Go Min-gi, who scored the opener against the run of play in the 24th minute, said playing the North had special meaning.
“You saw when the players were injured they were helping each other a lot,” Go said.
Also See: North Koreans choose seclusion over buzzing city
The qualifying round of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) is to be held at the Taipei Dome between Feb. 21 and 25, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced today. Taiwan’s group also includes Spain, Nicaragua and South Africa, with two of the four teams advancing onto the 2026 WBC. Taiwan, currently ranked second in the world in the World Baseball Softball Confederation rankings, are favorites to come out of the group, the MLB said in an article announcing the matchups. Last year, Taiwan finished in a five-way tie in their group with two wins and two losses, but finished last on tiebreakers after giving
Taiwan suffered its first defeat of the 2024 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier12, losing to defending champion Japan 3-1 at the Taipei Dome last night. Japan’s victory put Taiwan’s score at two wins and one loss in WBSC Premier12 championship Group B play. In the top of the first inning, a sacrifice fly from Japanese batter Shota Morishita allowed Masayuki Kuwahara to score a run on Taiwan’s starter Chen Po-ching (陳柏清). Taiwan’s attempt to catch up in the bottom of the first ended to no avail and an uneventful second inning saw the score
A debate over the soul of soccer is raging in FIFA World Cup holders Argentina, pitting defenders of the social role of the beautiful game against the government of libertarian Argentine President Javier Milei, who wants to turn clubs into for-profit companies. Argentina, which gave the world Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi, is home to some of the world’s most devoted soccer fans — a fact attributed by supporters like Gabriel Nicosia to the clubs’ community outreach. Nicosia is a lifelong supporter of San Lorenzo, a more than 100-year-old first division club based in the working-class Buenos Aires neighborhood of Boedo where
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a penalty and an overhead kick on Friday as Portugal beat Poland 5-1 to guarantee a place in the UEFA Nations League quarter-finals. Ronaldo turned in a man-of-the-match performance in a blistering second half. Rafael Leao broke the deadlock with a fine header 14 minutes into the second half and then Ronaldo got his 134th international goal from the penalty spot 13 minutes later. Bruno Fernandes scored a stunning third from almost 30m out and three minutes later Ronaldo’s pass gave Pedro Neto the space to lash home a fourth from a tight angle. Ronaldo made it five — and 135
RSS