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szdaily -> Sports -> 
Sun adds 800m title in record time
    2018-08-21  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

TRIPLE Olympic champion Sun Yang enjoyed a comfortable victory in the men’s 800 meters freestyle in a record time and scored his second title at the Jakarta Asian Games yesterday.

Men’s 800m free and women’s 1500m freestyle are being introduced to the Asian Games for the first time since both events were added to the official swimming competitions in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Sun, who just completed a Golden Grand Slam of Olympic, world and Asian titles in the 200, 400 and 1500m freestyle Sunday, stayed second after the first 300 meters and took the lead after that. Sun touched the wall in a time of seven minutes 48.36 seconds. Takeda Shogo of Japan and Nguyen Huy Hoang of Vietnam came in second and third.

“I saved energy for the 4X200m freestyle relay later tonight. My plan was to swim faster in the second half and to test my endurance in the race,” Sun said.

Sun, who won 400m and 1500m in 2012 London Olympic Games and 200m in Rio Olympic Games 2016, revealed his focus has moved to mid-long distance since the beginning of this year.

On Sunday, Sun led China to a clutch of gold medals.

The triple Olympic champion was left fuming by a flag malfunction in his victory ceremony, but not before he cruised to 200 meters freestyle victory over Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto.

In chaotic scenes Sun, 26, demanded a re-run of the ceremony when the pole carrying the national flags fell down as he was proudly singing the Chinese anthem.

His victory capped a strong first-day performance by China, who dominated with 151 golds in 2014 and will aim to top the Olympic medals table in Tokyo in 2020.

China swept four of the seven swimming titles and also won in shooting, fencing and wushu, a Chinese martial art, as the 18th Asian Games opened in Jakarta and Palembang.

China ended the first day with seven gold medals, ahead of Japan with three and South Korea on two.

South Korea, who hosted the 2014 Games in Incheon, picked up two taekwondo gold medals in the men’s individual and team poomsae.

In Palembang, the Games’ co-hosting city in Sumatra, India’s teen shooting star Manu Bhaker missed out on the final as China’s world-record holders Ji Xiaojing and Wu Jiayu won the 10m mixed air pistol.

(SD-Xinhua)

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