CHN - China wins gold in Asian Games

GUANGZHOU (Asian Games) China won the gold medal in Men's Basketball at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 26, beating Korea 77-71 in the final. The women’s team took home gold earlier today in a 70 – 64 win against Korea.

The Men’s Final was a successful ending of the basketball events at the Asian Games. All basketball games were sold out for the entire tournament. The brand new venue, that holds up to 18000 fans was finished 6 months ago and is a state of the art basketball facility.

FIBA was represented by its President Yvan Mainini and its Secretary General Patrick Baumann. FIBA Asia, responsible for basketball at the Asian Games, was represented by its President Sheikh Saud Bin Ali Al-Thani and Secretary General Dato Yeoh Cho Hock.

The Men’s Final was not an easy ride for the Asian powerhouse China to overcome their rivals from Korea. Korea was leading in the second quarter by 37-31 with 5:10 minutes left before a number of consecutive three pointers put China 43-37 ahead at the end of the first half.

China defeated Korea 76-66 in the preliminary round.

Wang Zhizhi, who scored 20 points for China, led all Chinese starters to score double-digits. Ding Jinhui and Sun Yue each added 14 while Wang Shipeng and Liu Wei got 10 apiece.

Korea had three players scoring double-figure with Kim Joo Sung and Cho Sungmin each 15 points, and guard Yang Donggeun 17.

FIBA