Games-South Korea's 'Avengers' claim another Asian Games fencing gold

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HANGZHOU, China : South Korea's Olympic champion fencers claimed a third consecutive gold for the nation in the Asian Games men's team sabre on Thursday after Taiwan's Lee Chih-kai retained his pommel horse title in gymnastics.Nicknamed 'The Avengers', Oh Sang-guk, Kim Jun-ho and Gu Bon-gil silenced a rau

HANGZHOU, China : South Korea's Olympic champion fencers claimed a third consecutive gold for the nation in the Asian Games men's team sabre on Thursday after Taiwan's Lee Chih-kai retained his pommel horse title in gymnastics.

Gu, also part of the team who won sabre gold at the 2012 London Olympics, featured in South Korea's Asian Games titles at Jakarta in 2018 and Incheon in 2014. Chinese tennis player Zheng Qinwen, fresh off her dream run to the U.S. Open quarter-finals, guaranteed at least a silver medal after prevailing 6-1 6-7 6-3 in a tough semi-final against the Philippines' impressive 18-year-old Alex Eala.

The traditional Chinese martial art of Wushu has been a convenient way for the hosts to rack up medals at past Asian Games and so it has proved again in Hangzhou.

 

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