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China dominant in Paralympics

Tuesday, 16th September 2008 ~ Maggie ~ Link ~ Comments (0)

Archer Chen Changjie celebrates his gold medal.
Archer Chen Changjie celebrates his gold medal.
With two days remaining in the Paralympics and 45 gold medals still to be awarded, China has secured a convincing lead in the medal count, with 80 gold and 187 overall. Great Britain is a distant second, with 41 golds and 94 overall medals. China has more golds and more medals than Great Britain and the United States combined.

China is tops in seven different disciplines: archery (2 gold, 7 total); athletics (34 gold, 64 total); goalball (1 gold, 2 total); judo (4 gold, 7 total); powerlifting (8 gold, 12 total); table tennis (10 gold, 18 total); wheelchair fencing (5 gold, 9 total).

Unlike in the Olympics, China is a force in the pool at the Paralympics, finishing second to the United States with 13 gold medals to the USA's 17. The hosts actually led the overall medal count in swimming, with 52 to the United States' 44.

Athletics will dominate today's schedule, with 26 of its remaining 31medals to be awarded. Football, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, table tennis and wheelchair fencing also have gold medal competitions over the next two days.

Chen Changjie image: Paralympic.beijing2008.cn

Tags: archery, athletics, Beijing, goalball, gold medals, judo, Paralympics, powerlifting, table tennis, wheelchair fencing

Day Seven: 4 golds, 2 bronzes for China

Saturday, 16th August 2008 ~ Maggie ~ Link ~ Comments (0)

China pulled in four gold medals on Friday, along with two bronzes. It was enough to keep China ahead of the United States in the gold medal count, but not enough to eclipse the USA's overall lead.

Weightlifting
Cao Lei (women's 75 kg ) and Lu Yong (men's 85 kg) kept the momentum in weightlifting going, winning China's gold medals number seven and eight in the sport.
Du and Yu celebrate badminton gold with their coach
Du and Yu celebrate badminton gold with their coach

Badminton
China won both gold and bronze in women's badminton doubles. In the gold medal match, Du Jing and Yu Yang beat Lee Kyung-won and Lee Hyo-jung of South Korea (21-15, 21-14). In the bronze medal match, Wei Yili and Zhang Yawen, who had lost to Du and Yu in the semifinals, beat the Japanese duo of Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna (21-17, 21-10).

Judo
Tong Wen took down Maki Tsukada of Japan to claim gold in the women's +78 kg division.

Gymnastics
Yang Yiling took bronze in the women's gymnastics all-around, coming in behind Americans Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson. Yang's best performance was on uneven bars, where she tallied a 16.725, the highest score given in any event of the competition. Her 15.75 on the beam placed her fourth in that discipline, but her scores on the vault (15.175) and the floor routine (15.00) gave her an overall of 62.650, not enough to beat out Johnson's 62.725 for silver.

Image: BOCOG

Tags: badminton, Beijing Olympics, Cao Lei, Du Jing, gymnastics, judo, Lu Yong, Olympics, Tong Wen, Wei Yili, weightlifting, Yang Yiling, Yu Yang, Zhang Yawen