Japan Wins Swimming, Gymnastics, Fencing Golds at Asian Games

Tokyo, Sept. 22 (Jiji Press)–Japanese swimmer Yumeki Kojima gained a gold medal within the males’s 400-meter particular person medley on the Asian Games on Tuesday.

The 17-year-old clocked a meet-record time of 4:07.02. In the identical occasion, Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsushita, 21, grabbed a silver medal.

Among different Japanese swimmers, Kaito Tabuchi, 24, gained silver within the males’s 1,500-meter freestyle, and Kazushi Imafuku, 19, earned bronze in the identical race. In the boys’s 4×100-meter medley relay, Japan picked up a silver medal, setting a brand new Japan document of three:28.70.

The Japan-hosted Asian Games began earlier this month, with many occasions going down at venues within the central prefecture of Aichi, whereas swimming races are held in Tokyo.

In the ladies’s creative gymnastics all-around, Aiko Sugihara, 27, captured gold with 55.599 factors, turning into the primary Japanese gymnast to win the occasion ever on the Asian Games. Japan’s Misa Nishiyama, 16, gained bronze.

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