S. Korean men's team sets world record

S. Korean men's team sets world record

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Agencies): South Korean men's archery squad
set a world record in the final of the team competition on its
way to winning the gold medal at the Asian Games yesterday as
Indonesia stole a little bit of thunder in the women's event by
taking a silver.

The South Koreans -- Chung Jae-hun, Oh Kyo-moon and Park
Kyung-mo -- scored a record 259 points in the Olympic-style final
round, shattering the previous mark of 254, set by a Japanese
team in July, 1994.

The trio beat Japan 259-236 in the final. In a play-off to
decide third, Kazakhstan beat China 244-233 to capture the
bronze.

Indonesia's team made up of Rusena Gelanteh, Purnama
Pandiangan and Dahliana had to be content with silver medal after
losing 231-240 to China in yesterday's final.

"They have given their best, after all," said coach Daniel
Lumalesil. Indonesia sprang a surprise by edging out Olympic
champion South Korea en route to reaching the final.

In wrestling, Iran's Behroz Yari Kalani won his second
straight Asian Games welterweight (74kg) freestyle, ousting
reigning Olympic champion Park Jang-soon on his way to gold.

Yari Kalani beat Japan's Takuya Ota 2-0 in the gold medal
match after a 3-0 semifinal triumph over South Korea's Park. Two
other Iranian wrestlers won titles yesterday, giving them six of
10 freestyle crowns.

Park won Olympic gold at Barcelona after a 68kg silver in 1988
in Seoul. He also won the 1990 Asiad 68kg crown, but settled for
a bronze here, beating Rouslan Khintchagov 3-0 in the third-place
match.

World champion Rassul Khadem won the light-heavyweight (90kg)
title by beating Japan's Atsushi Ito 5-0.

Khadem, slowed by a knee injury, still proved he was Asia's
best, showing the form he used to win an Olympic silver at 82kg
in 1994.

Ebrahim Mehraban completed Iran's golden haul by beating Igor
Klimov of Kazakhstan 5-3 for the super heavyweight (130kg) title.

Japan won their first wrestling gold when Takahiro Wada took
the featherweight (62kg) title 5-4 over Korea's Jang Jae-sung.

Kazakhstan's Maoulen Mamyrov stopped China's Dege Dun in 2:56
for the flyweight (52kg) gold medal.

World record

Meanwhile, Kuwaiti soldier Fehaid Aldeehani, on leave at the
Asian Games while Iraqi troops mass at his homeland's border,
captured gold and a world record in the double-trap clay pigeon
shooting competition.

Aldeehani and his brother Sayer, who is also in the Kuwaiti
military, teamed up on Saturday with Khalaf Altoabi to take gold
in the team clay pigeon competition. Fehaid already has a bronze
from the individual event.

Aldeehani scored a record-breaking total of 145 in yesterday's
150-target preliminaries and 42 out of 50 in the final round for
a tally of 187, pushing Chinese duo Li Bo and Zhang Yongjie into
silver and bronze positions.

The Aldeehani brothers, in common with other Kuwaiti
sharpshooters, have been eying with concern developments in their
homeland since Iraqi troops started massing at the border.

Team officials said their 100-odd members had been on the
phone almost non-stop to check on developments.

There was another world record yesterday in the women's clay
pigeon competition.

Wang Yujin posted 112 points in the preliminaries and 36 in
the final round to capture gold and a world mark, with teammate
Gao E shooting for silver and South Korea's Son Hye-kyoung
bronze.