South Korea trailed China in the first half, then won 2-1 and moved into the Asian Games men’s football final in Osaka. Lee Young-jun of Grasshopper and Bae Jun-ho of Stoke City scored one goal each. Next is Japan on Saturday, the third straight gold medal match between the two rivals and a chance at Korea’s fourth consecutive title. Korea reached the final in 2023 as well and took silver.
Archery opens the medal count
The day began on the range at Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square in Okazaki, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southeast of the main host city, Nagoya. Archery had its first Korean medals at the Aichi-Nagoya Games, both from compound team events on Wednesday.
Park Jung-yoon, Park Ye-rin and Kang Yeon-seo took bronze in the women’s team event, behind India and China, beating Chinese Taipei 229-228 in the third-place match. Park Jung-yoon then teamed with Choi Yong-hee in the mixed team event. They finished the four regular ends level with India at 157 and lost the shoot-off 20-19. Silver.
Other podiums
In judo, on the first day of competition, Jang Se-yun took silver in the women’s -52 kilograms. She lost the final to Sita Kadamboeva of Uzbekistan by ippon, and missed her first Asian Games gold. In sport climbing, Lee Do-hyun was second in the men’s boulder with 49.7 points. Sorato Anraku of Japan won with 74.5. Jeong Ji-min added bronze in the women’s speed event.
Cycling brought two track bronzes at Izu Velodrome, some 185 kilometers east of Nagoya, in the women’s team pursuit (Kim Min-jeong, Jang Su-ji, Noh Yun-seo and Shin Ji-eun) and the men’s (Park Sang-hoon, Hong Seung-min, Kim Hyeon-seok and Kim Kyeong-ho). Shin had earlier won bronze in the women’s individual road time trial on September 20, which was Korea’s first medal of the Games. Kim Min-seok took bronze on the first day of wrestling in the men’s 130-kilogram Greco-Roman event.
The women’s field hockey team lost 2-0 to India in the semifinals. They play Japan for bronze on Friday.
Sources
- Korea wins archery medals as men's football sets up Japan final showdown
- (Asiad) S. Korea collects 2 archery medals; men's football team reaches final | Yonhap News Agency
