AMMAN - After two days' competition at the 17th Asian Athletics Championships here, China is leading the event with four gold medals, one silver and two bronzes by Thursday. On Thursday, Chinese young player Liu Xiangrong claimed the title of women's shot put, increasing gold medals for Chinese team to four.

Liu ranked first after finishing the event with a 17.65-meter throw at the Amman International Stadium.

Chinese coach Sun You said China plays a leading role at the event of women's shot put in Asia, who has a result of two silver medals at Olympics.

Sun said some of China's leading player didn't come here for competition due to strained agenda to participate in the upcoming world athletics championships in Japan.

Earlier on Thursday morning, Chinese athlete Cui Zhide grabs the gold medal of men's 20km race walking at the Asian championships.

The competition, which began early in the morning to avoid the hot wave in the day, was mainly among walkers from China, South Korea and Kazakhstan.

Cui ranked first with finishing the race in one hour 30 minutes 21.3 seconds. South Korea's Shin Il-Yong won the silver and the bronze went to Rustem Kuwatov from Kazakhstan.

One day before, Cui's female teammate Jiang Qiuyan won the gold medal of women's 20km road walk, which is the first gold medal of the 17th Asian Athletics Championships that kicked off in the Jordanian captial on Wednesday.

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