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China wins gold medal in underwater dance Closing the Asian Games 2022

The last day of the 2022 Asian Games competition, competing for 3 gold medals. The host Chinese underwater dance team won the gold medal, ending with the 201st gold medal.

Asian Games, today is the last day of the competition, with the competition for 3 gold medals ending with the underwater dance sport. At the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Arena, the host Chinese underwater dance team showcased their underwater dance moves in unison and beauty. Both forced moves, technical moves and freestyle scored a total of 869.9676 points and won the gold medal. And it was the closing medal of China who won 201 gold medals. The silver medal was Japan with 831.2535 points, the bronze medal with Kazakhstan was 663.7417 points, while the Thai team finished in 8th place with 392.3249 points.

As for karate, it is the last sport to be competed. Today, there will be 2 gold medals at the Linping Sports Center in the kata category, or men's dance moves. In the final round, the Japanese team defeated Macau by 44.50 to 41.70 points, winning the gold medal. Macau won the silver medal. Bronze medals are Kuwait and Iraq.

As for the kumite or fighting category, competing for the final medal at this Asian Games, the women's 50 kg category, in the final round, Gu Xiao Zwang from Taiwan came back to defeat Moldir Changbirbey from Kazakhstan. After falling behind 1-5, he came back to use his feet to kick his head and get 3 points, trailing 4-5 and winning with a hand tie. Won the gold medal, Changbir Bey won the silver medal. UAE bronze medal with Iran, while Thailand's Chanyanuch Cheeppensuk was eliminated in the repechage round after losing to a UAE athlete.

Summary of gold medals: China, the host, is number 1, winning 201 gold medals, 111 silver medals, and 71 bronze medals. This is the first time in the history of the Asian Games that one nation can win more than 200 gold medals in a single competition. This broke the previous record that China had set with 199 gold medals at the 2010 Guangzhou Games, which they hosted. 2nd place: Japan with 52 gold medals, 3rd place, South Korea with 42 gold medals, while Thailand finished in 8th place, having won 12 gold medals and 14 gold medals. Silver, 32 bronze medals, ranked 1st in ASEAN

Thai athletes won a total of 58 medals, receiving prize money from the National Sports Development Fund, totaling 244 million, 2 hundred thousand baht, divided into gold medals, 2 million baht each, silver medals, 1 million baht, bronze medals, 5 hundred thousand baht, and coaches. Trainers receive 20 percent and the 22 medal-winning associations will receive another 30 percent each.

Source: Thai News Agency