
Men's table tennis team wins gold medal for the first time in 60 years, fencers Koki Kano and Misaki Emura also win
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The Asian Games is an international all-around competition in which athletes from the Asian region compete. Shin Ohashi won a medal at last year's World Junior Championships.
On the 24th, the sixth day of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, 17-year-old Shin Ohashi (Hirakata SS) won the gold medal in the men's 200m breaststroke, setting a new world record of 2 minutes 4.83 seconds. He broke the record held by Yu Kai (China) by 0.65 seconds. He won two titles in the 100 meters. Shintomi Kato (Swin Konosu) won the women's 200m breaststroke.
In the men's 800m freestyle, Kaito Tabuchi (Amagasaki SS) took second place with a time of 7 minutes 43.86 seconds. Shone Mitsunaga (Chuo University), who competed in the 50m butterfly, was second with a time of 23.06 seconds, which is equal to the Japanese record. Japan's 400-meter relay team (Murasa, Matsumoto, Matsumoto, Mitsunaga) finished third with a new Japanese record of 3 minutes 11.96 seconds.
In the team table tennis final, Japan's men's team defeated China 3-2, winning the gold medal for the first time in 60 years. The Japanese women's team lost to China and took silver. In the individual fencing competition, men's epee player Koki Kano (JAL) won for the second consecutive time. Women's saber Misaki Emura (Tachihi Holdings) also won gold. In the women's badminton team final, Japan lost to China 0-3 and took silver.
In the women's 10,000m track and field event, Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Industries) won the silver medal. Men's discus thrower Yuji Tsutsumi (ALSOK Gunma) placed 4th. In the women's water polo competition, Japan lost to China and won silver. In the women's basketball quarterfinals, Japan defeated Thailand 86-29 to advance to the final four.
◇Brief biography of Shin Ohashi
Shin Ohashi Hirakata SS. Third year student at Shijonawate Gakuen High School in Osaka. Last year, he won silver in the 100 and 200 meters and bronze in the 50 meters in the men's breaststroke at the World Junior Championships. He won three titles in the men's breaststroke at the Japan Championships in March of this year, in the 50, 100, and 200 meters. 17 years old. Born in Osaka.

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Ohashi wins the men's 200m breaststroke at the Asian Games, setting a new world record. He won two titles in the 100m. After recovering from the coronavirus infection, he has set his sights on winning a gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics.

On the 6th day of the Aichi/Nagoya Asian Games, 17-year-old Shin Ohashi won the gold medal in the men's 200m breaststroke with a new world record time of 2:04.83. The men's table tennis team defeated China to win the championship for the first time in 60 years. In fencing, Koki Kano and Misaki Emura won gold medals in the individual competition.

Q&A with 17-year-old Shin Ohashi, who set a new world record in the men's 200m breaststroke. He achieved a better time than he expected from the qualifying round, and talked about his desire to win at the Los Angeles Olympics and further improve his record.

On the 6th day of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, 17-year-old Shin Ohashi won the gold medal in the men's 200m breaststroke, setting a new world record of 2 minutes 4.83 seconds. He won two titles in the 100m.

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