But out of the pool, China was dominant all across the board.

China defended its honor as Wushu founder as it secured two gold medals on Saturday, in which Yuan Xiaochao clinched the first gold of Asian Games.

The host also showed dominance in their traditional territories of shooting, bagging five out of six gold medals including former Olympic champion Zhu Qinan's double. In the debutant event of dance sports, Chinese left no chance to their opponents, sweeping all the five titles.

Sports dancers Liang Yujie and Shen Hong won the Tango event, which is China's 1000th Asian Games gold medal since the country made an Asian Games debut in 1974.

World champion Wu Jingbiao clinched the first weightlifting gold medal for China by breaking snatch Asian record in the men's 56kg, while compatriot Wang Mingjuan defended her title at ease by winning the women's 48kg.

Newly-crowned world champion China easily took the men's gymnastics team title thanks to some major mistakes by Japan. It was the country's 10th consecutive Asiad team gold.

Kyoichi Watanabe fell off the pommel horse and Ryosuke Baba twice snapped his routine, giving Japan two worst scores of 11.250 and 12.500.

Japan won their first gold medal from the triathlon, with Mariko Adachi leading teammate Akane Tsuchihashi across the finish line. South Korea's Jang Yun-Jung won bronze.

South Korean judokas stormed over their rivals all by ippon to sweep three gold medals while the sport's traditional power Japan managed one gold by decision.

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