China's clean sweeps all 10 gold medals Friday, December 15, 2006 06:01 [IST]
Doha: Lin Yue and Wang Xin won the men's
and women's 10m platform golds here Thursday, handing China a record clean sweep of all
10 titles at the Asian Games.
Lin, 15, beat
teammate Zhou Luxin into silver with North Korea's
Kim Chon Man taking bronze, while Wang, 14, edged compatriot Chen Ruolin and North Korea's
Hong In Sun.
It was the first time in the history of the Games that one country has taken
all 10 medals. China
also won six silver.
"I didn't do very well in the first several dives tonight," said
Lin.
"I made some small mistakes but in the latter dives I did well. I have practised for this for a long time.
These are my first Asian Games and I am trying to increase my degrees of
difficulty as well as the quality of my dives. I will learn from our former
world champions and Olympic champions," she said.
Wang, also in her first major Games, had the narrowest of victories over
Chen and paid tribute to her teammate and friend.
"My teammate Chen's diving is so beautiful and her diving is light and
very flexible and her entry into the water is wonderful," she said,
admitting she was lucky to beat her to gold.
"I felt a bit nervous so I didn't do well in the first dives. Actually,
I was afraid that I had slipped to second place so I'm lucky to win gold,"
she said.
China
is a world force in diving and Olympic diving champion Guo Jingjing on Tuesday
became the most successful female diver in Asian Games history.
Guo, who has already announced she will retire after the Beijing Olympics,
took the women's 3-metre synchronized springboard title here with Li Ting to
add to the three golds from previous Asian Games |