JAKARTA, Aug. 23 -- Asian sporting powerhouse China is enjoying a good lead in the medal standings of the 18th Asian Games as its athletes pocketed 17 gold medals on Thursday, the most since the opening ceremony.
China is far ahead now with 55 gold, 40 silver and 21 bronze medals, followed by Japan with 25 golds and South Korea with 16 golds.
China's gold rush on Thursday started in the morning session when its rowers and wushu athletes won five and four golds respectively.
In the men's rowing, Zhang Liang registered a time of 7 minutes 25.36 seconds to win the men's single sculls.
He brushed aside Kim Dong-yang from South Korea and Japanese rower Ryuta Arakawa, who ended up with silver and bronze medals respectively.
Another gold medal for China's men rowers was from the pair discipline, earned by Li Xiaoxiong and Zhao Jingbin with a time of 7:04.07, leaving behind Uzbekistan and Japan who seized silver and bronze medals.
In the women's part, Chinese rower Chen Yunxia won a gold medal in single sculls after clocking 8:08.21.
China also won women's double sculls and women's pair titles.
In wushu, Chinese athletes bagged four out of six golds on offer, all coming from sanda events. In the men's division, Shen Guoshun won the 56kg title and Li Mengfan claimed the 65kg title, while in the women's division, Li Yueyao and Cai Yingying won 52kg and 60kg titles respectively.
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