The Athens Olympic champion Liu Xiang won the men's 110m hurdles here comfortably with 13.50 seconds at the Asian Athletics Championships, igniting the passion of home crowd.
Liu led all through with his teammate Shi Dongpeng running close behind him. Liu cleared the hurdles comfortably and finally cruised to easy win amid heavy rain and Shi took the silver in 13.67, while South Korean Park Tae-Kyong finished third in 13.82.
Liu's win ignited the passion of home crowd. Liu and Shi both waved the country's flag to the cheering home crowd to celebrate the victory. Liu then took off his jersey and threw it to the screaming crowd.
Liu Xiang of China celebrates the victory with the national flag after the final of men's 110m hurdles at the 18th Asian Athletics Championships in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov. 12, 2009. Liu won the gold with 13.50 seconds.
"I felt so good to race in the rain," Liu said. "Now I want to refresh myself with a warm bath."
Altogether seven gold medals were decided in Thursday's events. Five of them were clinched by Chinese athletes and the other two went to Bahrain and Japan.
The morning session had the men's 20km walk, in which the title went to China's pre-event favorite Li Jianbo. The 23-year-old achieved the victory amidst the rain in 1:22:55, and his team-mate Chu Yafei was second by only one second. The bronze went to South Korea's Park Chil-Sung at 1:24:51.
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