15th ASIAN GAMES: Eleven Gold medals were won by Chineses

15th ASIAN GAMES 2006
Men's Artistic Gymnastics

TEAM FINAL On Saturday, December 03 the World champion China claimed gold in the men’s team artistic gymnastics final ahead of Japan and Korea at ASPIRE Hall 2 of Doha, Qatar.
Yang, Wei (CHN) was the top performer in the competition, which also doubled up as qualification for individual events. He said to the press: "According to our performance, I think us beating Japan was not that hard. We have been training hard after the world championships, and our coach has done a lot of work preparing us for the Asian Games."
Chen Yibing, who was the 3rd best performer overall, Feng Jing, the all-around world champion of Ghent 2002, Liang Fuliang, Ziao Qin and Zou Kai were the other members of the Chinese team which scored a total of 377.100.
Olympic Champion Japan was 2nd with 373.050 and Korea 3rd on 371.500.

MEN's All-around
- Monday, December 04 -

1 YANG Wei CHN 95.500
2 MIZUTORI Hisashi JPN 93.400
3 TOMITA Hiroyuki JPN 93.250
4 CHEN Yibing CHN 93.050
5 KIM Seung Il KOR 90.850
6 FOKIN Anton UZB 90.550
7 JO Jong Chol PRK 90.100
8 KIM Soo Myun KOR 89.300
9 BAHLAWAN Fadi SYR 87.100
10 BATSIYEV Sado KAZ 86.400
11 NG Shu Mun MAS 84.600
12 BABAEI Seyedhamidreza IRI 83.400
13 KHENARINEZHAD Hadi IRI 81.950
14 KAEWPANYA Rartchawat THA 81.650
15 OSIMOV Ravshanbek UZB 81.550
16 ATTAR Amer SYR 79.850
17 EKANAYAKA M. Prasad s. 79.050
18 KUMAR Ashish IND 78.950
19 SAHU Deepaish IND 77.650
20 HUANG Yi Hsueh TPE 76.600
21 AL HAMAD Nasser Musa QAT 75.700
22 HUANG Che Kuei TPE 74.450
23 RI Chol Jin PRK 44.400

WOMEN's TEAM RESULTS
- Saturday, December 03 -

1. China 239.400
2. North Korea 228.550
3. Japan 225.950
4. Korea 215.650
... four complete teams, only and 13 ind. gymnasts from 8 more countries.

WOMEN's All-around
- Monday, December 04 -

1 HE Ning CHN 59.450
2 ZHOU Zhuoru CHN 59.050
3 HONG Su Jong PRK 57.800
4 UEMURA Miki JPN 56.100
5 OSHIMA Kyoko JPN 56.000
6 PYON Kwang Sun PRK 55.100
7 BAE Muleum KOR 54.200
8 YU Han Sol KOR 54.150
9 LIM Heem Wei SIN 52.000
10 NINKOVA Anna UZB 51.600
11 ABD HAMID Nurul Fatiha MAS 51.050
12 GAYFULINA Tatyana UZB 50.500
13 NGUYEN Thuy Duong VIE 50.000
14 PUREVSUREN Solongo MGL 49.300
15 ALI Shegun QAT 46.100
16 RAIMBEKOVA Irina KGZ 45.900
17 BYAMBANYAM Yanjindulam MGL 44.300
18 AL HABSHI Aljazy QAT 40.800
19 NEDBAYLO Tatiana KGZ 30.150

Technical official GAO, Jian commends gymnastics level at Asiad
(GAO, Jian is the director of the State Sports General Administration of China (SSGAC) Gymnastics Management Center)

Veteran technical official GAO, Jian from China regarded the standard of artistic gymnastics at the Doha Asian Games as the best he has ever seen.
"We can see so many world champions competing here, such as Chinese Yang Wei and Japanese Hiroyuki Tomita," said Gao to the press after the last day of apparatus finals at the Games. "The degree of the field is higher than ever before."
Gao, the president of technical affairs for men's gymnastics in Asia has been to seven Asian Games. He sang highly of China's 11 gold medals here, but warned that other teams were following closely.
"The Chinese team got a very good opportunity to practise here, as I think the gymnastics level in Asia is improving," said Gao.

As China refine their routines ahead of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, Gao said they would need to monitor rivals Japan and DPR Korea, particularly on the horizontal bar.
"Though Zou Kai performed well with higher difficulty, the quality and degree of his movement is not as fluent and fast as Japan's Mizutori." Gao believes China's dominance over Japan in the Games is a great achievement because the Japanese did not send their strongest team to the Asian Games in Busan 2002.
But he is wary of Japan's threat to China's gold medal ambitions, highlighting the floor as an area for improvement in the Chinese men's team.
"After we got a very good result from the world championships in Denmark, I told the Chinese team that we should take the Japanese team as a long-time rival," said Gao. "They are always preparing to attack."
Gao said the Games were an ideal opportunity for young Chinese gymnasts to be tested ahead of major competition such as the 2007 world championships in Stuttgart, Germany. He believes that ZOU, Kai and women's all-around gold medallist HE, Ning will become super stars in the future. Source: Xinhua & Doha sports press