S. Korean men's team sets world record<\/p>\n
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Agencies): South Korean men's archery squad
\nset a world record in the final of the team competition on its
\nway to winning the gold medal at the Asian Games yesterday as
\nIndonesia stole a little bit of thunder in the women's event by
\ntaking a silver.<\/p>\n
The South Koreans -- Chung Jae-hun, Oh Kyo-moon and Park
\nKyung-mo -- scored a record 259 points in the Olympic-style final
\nround, shattering the previous mark of 254, set by a Japanese
\nteam in July, 1994.<\/p>\n
The trio beat Japan 259-236 in the final. In a play-off to
\ndecide third, Kazakhstan beat China 244-233 to capture the
\nbronze.<\/p>\n
Indonesia's team made up of Rusena Gelanteh, Purnama
\nPandiangan and Dahliana had to be content with silver medal after
\nlosing 231-240 to China in yesterday's final.<\/p>\n
"They have given their best, after all," said coach Daniel
\nLumalesil. Indonesia sprang a surprise by edging out Olympic
\nchampion South Korea en route to reaching the final.<\/p>\n
In wrestling, Iran's Behroz Yari Kalani won his second
\nstraight Asian Games welterweight (74kg) freestyle, ousting
\nreigning Olympic champion Park Jang-soon on his way to gold.<\/p>\n
Yari Kalani beat Japan's Takuya Ota 2-0 in the gold medal
\nmatch after a 3-0 semifinal triumph over South Korea's Park. Two
\nother Iranian wrestlers won titles yesterday, giving them six of
\n10 freestyle crowns.<\/p>\n
Park won Olympic gold at Barcelona after a 68kg silver in 1988
\nin Seoul. He also won the 1990 Asiad 68kg crown, but settled for
\na bronze here, beating Rouslan Khintchagov 3-0 in the third-place
\nmatch.<\/p>\n
World champion Rassul Khadem won the light-heavyweight (90kg)
\ntitle by beating Japan's Atsushi Ito 5-0.<\/p>\n
Khadem, slowed by a knee injury, still proved he was Asia's
\nbest, showing the form he used to win an Olympic silver at 82kg
\nin 1994.<\/p>\n
Ebrahim Mehraban completed Iran's golden haul by beating Igor
\nKlimov of Kazakhstan 5-3 for the super heavyweight (130kg) title.<\/p>\n
Japan won their first wrestling gold when Takahiro Wada took
\nthe featherweight (62kg) title 5-4 over Korea's Jang Jae-sung.<\/p>\n
Kazakhstan's Maoulen Mamyrov stopped China's Dege Dun in 2:56
\nfor the flyweight (52kg) gold medal.<\/p>\n
World record<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Kuwaiti soldier Fehaid Aldeehani, on leave at the
\nAsian Games while Iraqi troops mass at his homeland's border,
\ncaptured gold and a world record in the double-trap clay pigeon
\nshooting competition.<\/p>\n
Aldeehani and his brother Sayer, who is also in the Kuwaiti
\nmilitary, teamed up on Saturday with Khalaf Altoabi to take gold
\nin the team clay pigeon competition. Fehaid already has a bronze
\nfrom the individual event.<\/p>\n
Aldeehani scored a record-breaking total of 145 in yesterday's
\n150-target preliminaries and 42 out of 50 in the final round for
\na tally of 187, pushing Chinese duo Li Bo and Zhang Yongjie into
\nsilver and bronze positions.<\/p>\n
The Aldeehani brothers, in common with other Kuwaiti
\nsharpshooters, have been eying with concern developments in their
\nhomeland since Iraqi troops started massing at the border.<\/p>\n
Team officials said their 100-odd members had been on the
\nphone almost non-stop to check on developments.<\/p>\n
There was another world record yesterday in the women's clay
\npigeon competition.<\/p>\n
Wang Yujin posted 112 points in the preliminaries and 36 in
\nthe final round to capture gold and a world mark, with teammate
\nGao E shooting for silver and South Korea's Son Hye-kyoung
\nbronze.<\/p>",
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