China wraps up track cycling with five golds

GUANGZHOU - Guo Shuang and Zhang Lei both grabbed gold medals on the final day of track cycling events at the 16th Asian Games, winning women's and men's sprint races on Wednesday to help China wrap up the track cycling events with five gold medals from ten events.

South Korea bagged two golds on men's individual pursuit and team pursuit, Uzbekistan Malaysia and Hong Kong, China?each grabbed one on women's individual pursuit, men's point race and men's keirin respectively.

Four Asian records were broken on the track at the Games.

Hong Konger Lee Wai Sze, 23, first broke the Asian record of women's individual time trial to win over Beijing Olympic bronze medalist Guo Shuang of China.

"I always want to beat her," said Lee, "And now my dream comes true."

Guo Shuang, however, had to settle for the silver. But on the final day of track cycling events, she finally seized a gold on women's sprint.

South Korea's Jang Sun Jae rewrote the Asian record of men's individual pursuit in qualifying with a flying four minutes 26.089 seconds.

Jang, 26, said he had to work hard on cycling as his father, who used to be a cyclist and was the gold medalist in the men's team time trial of the 1982 Asian Games, expected much from him.

"He expects much from me so I prepared very hard for the games," said Jang.

Jang, along with teammates Hwang Inhyeok, Cho Ho Sung and Park Seon Ho, also broke the Asian record of men's team pursuit.

"We know we will have good results," said Jang, "Because we did full preparations before the games started, we even obey the strict diet as part of preparations."

China's Jiang Fan, 20, notched the Asian record of women's individual pursuit to three minutes 37.105 seconds.

"Although I broke the Asian record, I am still far from being the world No. 1. As the event would be cancelled in the future, I am happy to break the Asian record before that happened," Jiang said.

Next on the Asian Games cycling agenda will be mountain bike cross-country, BMX and road cycling. All cycling events will be concluded on November 23.